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The eye of darshan

The Hindu concept of darshan means “divine revelation”, but it’s also about the multilayered ways in which we see the world around us. Adrian Plau explains how one image in a Panjabi manuscript relates to darshan, and why it’s so striking.

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The eyes have it

In 1583, eye specialist Georg Bartisch published a book detailing the treatments he’d developed for various eye disorders. Today his approach seems to mix surprising innovation with entirely contemporary religious judgement.

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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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Why the scariest monsters look almost human

Something is wrong, but you’re not sure what. Amy Jones explores exactly why your worst nightmare is the monster that’s almost human.

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  • Section of the coats of the human eye.
  • Sclera (white part) of the human eye
  • Demonstration model of the human eye, French. 1884
  • Plaster model of a section of the human eye
  • The human eye: fifteen figures, showing dissections of the eye. Engraving by T. Milton, 1811.
  • The human eye: seven figures, including cross-sections through the head, and microscopic images of the structure of the eye. Engraving by T. Milton, 1810.
  • Plaster model of a section of the human eye surrounding bone, muscle and blood vessels
  • Plaster model of a section of the human eye surrounding bone, muscle and blood vessels
  • Plaster model of a section of the human eye surrounding bone, muscle and blood vessels
  • Portrait of Samuel Thomas von Sommering [1755 - 1830], physician, anatomist, anthropologist, paleontologist and inventor, who discovered the macula in the retina of the human eye.
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