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  • Sarsarparilla root under the microscope.
  • Looking up from underneath a microscope
  • Animal flight muscle mitochondria
  • Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs), artwork
  • Beale-type microscope, England, 1871-1900
  • Bioblasts
  • Illustration of Lister's microscope.
  • Montage of photographs in connection with the Bubonic plague
  • Frog's foot specimen prepared by Joseph Lister, 1857
  • Leeuwenhoek simple microscope (copy), Leyden, 1901-1930
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Works

  • view Illustration of Lister's microscope.
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    Illustration of Lister's microscope.

  • view Frog's foot specimen prepared by Joseph Lister, 1857
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    Frog's foot specimen prepared by Joseph Lister, 1857

    Science Museum, London
  • view Surgery, UK. Mastoid exploration
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    Surgery, UK. Mastoid exploration

    Adrian Wressell, Heart of England NHS FT
  • view Surgery, UK. Mastoid exploration
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    Surgery, UK. Mastoid exploration

    Adrian Wressell, Heart of England NHS FT
  • view Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs), artwork
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    Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs), artwork

    Maciek Doczyk
All works (34)

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