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  • A woman representing Necessity, seated on a throne supported by the Fates, is flanked by the planets and by Sirens; representing the Harmony of Spheres. Etching by Agostino Carracci after A. Boscoli after B. Buontalenti.
  • Chinese woodcut: The five spheres (wu lun) of the eye
  • The castle of knowledge, flanked by the spheres of destiny and fortune. Woodcut, 1556.
  • Cosmology and cosmography: planets and the movements of spheres. Coloured etching, 1875.
  • Cosmology and cosmography: planets and the movements of spheres. Coloured etching, 1875.
  • Ezekiel has a vision of angels and spheres with eyes coasting along the thunderstruck sea. Etching by R. Pranker, 176-, after B. Picart.
  • Japanese and Chinese legends: (top) a monkey blowing on a hair to conjure up a legion of monkey warriors; (bottom) an aged Japanese couple, the symbol of marital harmony and longevity, watching the sunset under a pine tree. Colour woodcut by Yoshitoshi, 1880s.
  • [Keiromantia sic]: or, the art of divining by the lines and signatures engraven in the hand of man .... Wherein you have the secret concordance, and harmony betwixt it, and astrology, made evident in 19 genitures. Together with a ... discourse of the soul of the world .... / Written originally in Latine ... and now faithfully Englished, by Geo. Wharton.
  • Illustration of Peking Man (Sinanthropus Pekinen Sis). From the Sphere.
  • Astronomy: a celestial sphere, showing the birthplace and time of Hesiod. Engraving.
  • Astronomy: an armillary sphere, with other diagrams of the heavens. Engraving by R. W. Seale.
  • A man is carrying a sphere on his shoulders; showing the bones of the right leg and the right arm. Steel engraving.
  • The double-headed eagle, representing the Holy Roman Empire, stands on a bobbin holding in its wings the outer sphere of the universe showing the elements of time from which the world is made: months, days, planets, signs of the zodiac, etc. Engraving by P. Miotte.
  • Euclid. Line engraving.
  • Chinese woodcut: Eye diagnosis -- the five spheres (wu lun)
  • Chinese drugs personified: Lithograph, 1935
  • Transfected glioblastoma cells: reduced endocytosis
  • Osteoclast resorption of bone
  • Osteoclast resorption of bone
  • Fibroblast cells with endocytosed particles
  • Glioblastoma cells showing endocytosis
  • Glioblastoma cells showing endocytosis
  • Chinese woodcut: The eight regions (bakuo) of the eye
  • A variety of makes of condom and lubricant from 'All Right' to 'Tunna' representing the 'rubber market'; one of a series of safe sex AIDS prevention advertisements by Folkhälsoinstitutet, RFSU and RFSL. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A group of musicians; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by A. Bosse, c. 1650.
  • Glioblastoma cells transfected with P10
  • Fibroblast cells with endocytosed particles
  • Fibroblast cells with endocytosed particles
  • Fibroblast cells with endocytosed particles
  • Glioblastoma cells transfected with P10