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  • God appears in a circle surrounded by images from the stories of the Creation, Adam and Eve, and Noah. Line Engraving.
  • Brain tractography
  • Corpus Callosum, tractography
  • Corticospinal tract, tractography
  • White matter innervation of the neocortex, MRI
  • Unfolded brain, MRI
  • Arcuate Fasiculus, tractography
  • Fifteen contours of foreheads. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Twenty-five contours of irregular foreheads. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Inferior Longitudinal Fasciculus, tractography
  • Brocke and Wernicke areas of brain, MRI
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.
  • MS OR Indic beta 229, Lilavati by Bhaskara
  • MS OR Indic beta 229, Lilavati by Bhaskara
  • Outlines and designs of foreheads, showing their wrinkles and contours. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • MS OR Indic beta 229, Lilavati by Bhaskara
  • An allegorical monument to Sir Isaac Newton and his theories on prisms. Line engraving by L. Desplaces after D. M. Fratta after G.B. Pittoni, D. Valeriani and G. Valeriani.
  • An allegorical monument to Sir Isaac Newton and his theories on prisms. Line engraving by L. Desplaces after D. M. Fratta after G.B. Pittoni, D. Valeriani and G. Valeriani.
  • Snowflake
  • Snowflake
  • Melancholia: a female figure contemplating a skull, surrounded by attributes of knowledge and learning. Engraving after D. Fetti.
  • A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.
  • Allegorical figures hold up two scrolls, separated by a spider's web: one shows a straight line between "Charitas" and "Iustitia"; the other a crooked line between "Invidia" and "Avaritia". Etching by C. Murer after himself, c. 1600-1614.
  • A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.
  • Wisdom shows Britannia the measurements of the globe; figures representing other continents stand watching. Engraving by W. Swift after W.M. Craig.
  • Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.
  • Diagrams of the human body, proportional figures, écorchés etc., for use by artists. Coloured engraving by Langevin, 1851.
  • Phrenological chart; with design of head containing symbols of the phrenological faculties, and diagrams of heads showing criminal and moral propensities. Wood engraving, c. 1850, after F. Bridges and O.S. Fowler.
  • An alchemist at his alembic; surrounded by vignettes of scientific pursuits. Wood engraving by Dalziel, 18--.
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing a variety of subjects studied there. Line engraving by G. Herth after G. Stein.