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Divining the world through an artist’s almanac
Amanda Couch's artists book, 'Huwawa in the Everyday: an almanac' is inspired by the entrail like folds of a medieval folding and its function as a guide for astrological divinations linking the body, health and the heavens. Like the original almanac her work is designed to be carried out into the wider world.
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Mapping the body
These intricate anatomical drawings show how Ayurveda practitioners have explored the human body and how it works.
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The unearthly children of science fiction’s Cold War
In the 1950s a new figure emerged in British novels, film and television: a disturbing young alien that revealed postwar society’s fear of the unruly power of teenagers.
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Astrological chart (?). Woodcut (?).
Reference: 47175i- Archives and manuscripts
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Astrological charts and data
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M0007132: Page from an astrological manuscript including an astrological chart
Date: 30 July 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/61/20Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0007123: Manuscript page including illustration of an Astrological chart
Date: 30 July 1940Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/61/11Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Astrology: an astrological chart, with the signs of the Zodiac pointing to the countries and parts of the body they influence. Coloured process print, 1918, after H. Brooks, 1906.
Brooks, Hahn, active 1906-1918.Date: 1918Reference: 498263i