Hallucigenia

Los diversos posibles

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Giuliano Pesello c. 1442

Celestial Hemisphere in the Sagrestia Vecchia

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Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, Étincelle électrique directe, 1885 [Direct electric sparkle, 1885]

ref.: Brought to Light : Photography and the invisible, 1840-1900, cat. expo. San Francisco

from Sotheby’s

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“Cells in the retina of the eye” (1904), one of Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s most striking drawings at the Grey Art Gallery in Manhattan. CAJAL INSTITUTE, MADRID

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Tim Flach @TimFlach

These cute Salamanders known as Axolotl are of great interest to science because it can regenerate limbs and parts it's own brain. The Aztec people saw a manifestation of the god Xolotl in this creature, who led souls into the underworld alongside the setting sun.

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Allegory for the difficulty of ruling over a diverse nation, Dutch engraving from 1578

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Detalle de una mariposa (6,3x). Jochen Schroeder, Tailandia

Nikon Small World Competition

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Ojos de una avispa. Jochen Schroeder, Tailandia

Nikon Small World Competition

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© Ninoslav Molnar Smithsonian

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Guillaume Budé - De asse (1528). Detail.

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Guillaume Budé - De asse (1528). Detail.

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'The Heavens as they were on April 25, 1384 (CE)' 

Mahmud ibn Yahya ibn al-Hasan al-Kashi (1410-11 C.E)

Via  Rabih Alameddine

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©yama-bato

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Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus (French translation), France ca. 1310

BnF, Français 12400, fol. 75v

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Frederick II, De arte venandi cum avibus (French translation), France ca. 1310

BnF, Français 12400, fol. 75v

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Maria Eimmart, a female German astronomer, drew these illustrations of the phases of the moon & planets from 1693-8.

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Maria Eimmart, a female German astronomer, drew these illustrations of the phases of the moon & planets from 1693-8.

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Bronze Age Trepanated Skull from Jericho, C. 2200-2000 BC

Although this skull shows four separate holes made by the ancient surgical process of trepanation, they had clearly begun to heal. This suggests that although highly dangerous, the procedure was by no means fatal. Also known as trephination, or trepanning, the process of making a hole through the skull to the surface of the brain might be carried out to treat a range of medical conditions or for more mystical reasons. The skull was excavated from a tomb in Jericho (map), in January 1958.

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Bronze Age Trepanated Skull from Jericho, C. 2200-2000 BC

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Ulrich Ruosch - Four Elements, “Das Alchemiehandbuch des Appenzeller Wundarztes“, 17th century. Ulrich Ruosch was a Paracelsian surgeon from Switzerland who produced a beautiful manual which captures the world of 17th-century Alchemy, rife as it is with meaningful connections between the Planets and the Metals and the operations of Cosmic Forces in the sublunary world of the four Elements.  Ignis is symbolized by pure Fire, and Aqua by sailing vessel crossing the Sea has been used, with more vessels in the background. Aer is purely symbolized by clouds, but for Terra, a rather charming scene of a lush wooded landscape is used. This is a subtle stylistic reference to the correspondence of the Elements with the Strata of the Universe: the Upper Stratum is Fire (Ignis), the Middle Stratum is Air (Aer), while the Earth (Terra) belongs to the Lower Stratum, as does Water (Aqua).

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Ulrich Ruosch - Four Elements, “Das Alchemiehandbuch des Appenzeller Wundarztes“, 17th century

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Lascaux

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Dining table of the Nuremberg accused, Germany, 1945.

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Dining table of the Nuremberg accused, Germany, 1945.