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The Key to Memory: Mark it out

Sarah Bentley explores what a papier-mâché figure from Japan can tell us about how and why we remember.

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Drawing the human animal

We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.

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The enduring myth of the mad genius

There’s a fine line to tread between creativity and psychosis.

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  • Cranium and vertebral column: two cross-sections. Lithograph by N.H Jacob, 1831/1854(?).
  • Cross section of human cranium
  • Woman with malignant tumours of the cranium
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • Posterior view of cranium deformed according to fashion
  • Plate XXIV. Trepanning or trephining of the cranium.
  • An écorché, seen from the front, with proportions marked, and (left) cranium and cervical vertebrae, with proportions of body. Engraving by C. Paroli, after a drawing by Michelangelo, 1760-1770.
  • Anatomy of the heart, cranium, and brain : adapted to the purposes of the medical and surgical practitioner; to which is added, in notes, observations on the laws of life and sensation / by Alexander Ramsay.
  • Anatomy of the heart, cranium, and brain : adapted to the purposes of the medical and surgical practitioner; to which is added, in notes, observations on the laws of life and sensation / by Alexander Ramsay.
  • Anatomy of the heart, cranium, and brain : adapted to the purposes of the medical and surgical practitioner; to which is added, in notes, observations on the laws of life and sensation / by Alexander Ramsay.
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