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  • Architecture: the geometry of a curved staircase. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus, la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete [sic] methode / [René Descartes].
  • Snowflake
  • A female figure at an easel is helped by another with a compass; representing perspective and geometry in art. Coloured stipple engraving, 1786.
  • Unfolded brain, MRI
  • Brain tractography
  • Snowflake
  • The Académie des Sciences et des Beaux Arts, Paris: showing various methods of study and teaching with a lettered key. Line engraving.
  • Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus, la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete [sic] methode / [René Descartes].
  • Melancholia: a female figure contemplating a skull, surrounded by attributes of knowledge and learning. Engraving after D. Fetti.
  • Outlines and designs of foreheads, showing their wrinkles and contours. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.
  • White matter innervation of the neocortex, MRI
  • 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.
  • Brocke and Wernicke areas of brain, MRI
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Figures with measuring instruments and a cannon; representing geometry and military science. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
  • Building: plan, elevation, and diagrams of a circular staircase. Etching, 1850, after S. H. Brooks.
  • Putti plan war manoeuvres on maps with the help of geometrical diagrams; representing geometry and military science. Etching by B. Picart, 1729, after himself.
  • 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.
  • Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus, la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete [sic] methode / [René Descartes].
  • A female goddess with a castle on her head (representing an Earth goddess or Geometry) holds up a tablet engraved with faces from which a man copies; two angels and a swan sit with them in the clouds. Engraving by T. Holloway, 1810.
  • Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus, la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete [sic] methode / [René Descartes].
  • Mathematics: a graph-plotting machine. Engraving by Benard.
  • A mathematician, using dividers to measure a diagram on a piece of paper. Engraving.
  • Discours de la methode pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la verité dans les sciences. Plus, la dioptriqve. Les meteores. Et la geometrie. Qui sont des essais de cete [sic] methode / [René Descartes].
  • Fifteen contours of foreheads. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Science: the engraved titlepage to the Encyclopedie of Diderot and d'Alembert. Engraving by B.L. Prevost, 1772, after C.N. Cochin, the younger, 1765.
  • Inferior Longitudinal Fasciculus, tractography