God bless these people though cause you just know this one guy probably is still referenced all the time in modern science relating to ferns
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Anonymous4w
Honest curiosity if you look at the bottom they’re all the same color, makes me wonder if there was sun damage and these were the best of 8 novels they collected.
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Anonymous4w
I bet that guy indirectly helped cure cholera or some crazy shit like that
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Anonymous4w
I’d imagine a lot of people from back then were autistic as hell, it just didn’t really warrant notice since it was either useful or not important.
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Anonymous#14w
Also ferns are cool I can understand the fascination
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Anonymous#24w
Also in true neurotypical fashion, I just realized the “joke” is not that the novels look different half way through and that pisses neurotypical people off, but that we have an 8 book encyclopedia of a seemingly random obscure topic 🤷♂️ 😬