Historical Anatomy and Lunar Studies

Illustrations and engravings depicting human anatomy, lunar maps, and historical scientific prints related to the moon and microscopy.

Bernard & Cie, Rutherford, Lewis M., Photographie direct de la lune. Le 10e jour de la lunaison, View of the Moon, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, PL. IV, height 131 mm, width 120 mm, photographer, 1874 - 1884, paper, collotype, photoprint, cliché maker

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Two views of a human skull, top view and and profil; Crne Humain. 1. Sinciput, 2. Profil 1/2 Nature. .

$P-21752 BW Range 1.2 million kilometers This image of Europa shows detail about 20 kilometers across and is somewhat higher resolution than the best Voyager 1 image. The part of Europa shown is the hemisphere that will be viewed at even higher resolution during another Voyager 2 encounter with Europa. Color reconstruction in this image was slightly enhanced to bring out detail in the complicated mottled region on the west limb, containing some of the linear fracture-like features discovered by Voyager 1. The regions in the north and south polar areas which appear bluish in this version are in fact white.$

$X-rays diffracted from a well-ordered protein crystal create sharp patterns of scattered light on film. A computer can use these patterns to generate a model of a protein molecule. To analyze the selected crystal, an X-ray crystallographer shines X-rays through the crystal. Unlike a single dental X-ray, which produces a shadow image of a tooth, these X-rays have to be taken many times from different angles to produce a pattern from the scattered light, a map of the intensity of the X-rays after they diffract through the crystal. The X-rays bounce off the electron clouds that form the outer structure of each atom. A flawed crystal will yield a blurry pattern; a well-ordered protein crystal yields a series of sharp diffraction patterns. From these patterns, researchers build an electron density map. With powerful computers and a lot of calculations, scientists can use the electron density patterns to determine the structure of the protein and make a computer-generated model of the struct$

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France, Longuet, Monpillard, F., Spermatozoïdes de lapin, Microscope image of sperm cells of a rabbit, recto - printed, photomechanical print, page, photographs, photographically illustrated books, Impression monochrome and Photocollographie. Gross = 350 diamètres. Objectif 1, 12 immersion homogeneous Nachet., Pl. II., height 80 mm, width 81 mm, photographer, 1889 - 1899, paper, papier, collotype, maker, producer

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$P-29513 BW Range 31,000 kilometers (19,000 miles) This Voyager 2 image of Miranda was taken shortly before the spacecraft's closet approach to the Uranian moon.The high resolution of 600 meters (2,000 feet) reveals a bewildering variety of fractures, grooves and craters, as well as features of different albedos (reflectances). This clear-filter, narrow-angle view encompasses areas of older, heavily cratered terrain with a wide variety of forms. The grooves and troughs reach depths of a few kilometers and expose materials of different albedos. The great variety of directions of fracture and troughs, and the different densities of impact craters on them, signify a long, complex geologic evolution of this satellite.$

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