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Chameleon and its dissection.

The Natural History of Animals, Containing the Anatomical Description of Several Creatures Dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. 1702.

Translation of the original French edition published in 1671.

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Divination by moles on the face or body is based on the belief that marks on the skin are the stars of the body, and that, like the stars in the firmament, they can reveal profound mysteries.

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Sir Isaac Newton's reflective telescope, ca. 1671

*The telescope in the picture is a replica of the original Newtonian (though, in this case, it's a replica made by Sir Isaac Newton himself). The whereabouts of the first one he built is unknown.

The late, great Dave Trott made a couple of videos about replicas of the original Newtonian telescope:

Photo credit: Royal Society collections

Zero from Drakengard 3

"I'm always a bit torn with Nier and Drakengard because there are some legitimately good designs, but a lot of them are just kind of stupidly sexualized. I reaaaaally like the patterning in Zero's clothing though, and her armored arm/prosthesis has one of the coolest designs ever (even if it's not the easiest to see in her main reference)"

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