Chambered Nautilus, Nautilus pompilius

Chambered Nautilus (Nautilus pompilius) from "D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer" (The Ambonese curiosity cabinet) by Georgius Everhardus Rumphius, 1705. Page 62, Plate 17. Depicting shell, animal itself and cross-cut of the shell.

Georg Eberhard Rumpf (Rumphius in Latin), 1627-1702, was a merchant for the Dutch East India Company on the island of Ambon, now part of Indonesia. Despite being blind, Rumpf assembled and classified an extraordinary collection of plants and animals using his own system of classification. D'Amboinsche Rariteitkamer was published in Amsterdam three years after his death.