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Michael Faraday (1791-1867) lecturing at the Royal Institution. In the front row of the audience, from left to right, are Tyndall, Huxley, Wheatstone, Crookes, Darwin, Daniels and Frankland. This is a replica of a panel on the entrance doors of the Imperial Chemical House Millbank, London.
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Michael Faraday (1791-1867) lecturing at the Royal Institution. In the front row...

Michael Faraday (1791-1867, British physicist and chemist) in his laboratory.
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Michael Faraday (1791-1867, British physicist and chemist) in his laboratory.

Pumping engine for irrigation invented by George and William Chaffey. 19th-20th century.
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Pumping engine for irrigation invented by George and William Chaffey. 19th-20th...

Chinese propaganda poster: Chinese Jiang Zhuying (1939-1982), a prominent Chinese optician, who made great contribution to China's optical mechanical testing and scientific research in some other fields. China, early 1960s.
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Chinese propaganda poster: Chinese Jiang Zhuying (1939-1982), a prominent Chines...

Claude F. Bragdon: "The Chap Book, a semi-monthly magazine". USA, around 1898. Lithograph, 54 x 35cm. This sketch reveals Bragdon's interest in astrology and classical schemes of proportion, issues that he would later deal with in his theoretical books on art.
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Claude F. Bragdon: "The Chap Book, a semi-monthly magazine". USA, around 1898. L...

Prajnaparamita-book that contains a well known philosophical text of Mahayana, or "Greater Vehicle" Buddhism. Buddhism came to Bhutan from India and its texts were translated from Sanskrit into Tibetan. Wood, sheet copper, silk cloth 24 x 69 cm
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Prajnaparamita-book that contains a well known philosophical text of Ma...

Astrological diagramm, brass; tantric wheel, Buddha and guardians; Buddhist symbols.
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Astrological diagramm, brass; tantric wheel, Buddha and guardians; Bu...

The stairs leading up to the Temple of Heaven, are separated by bands of sculpted marble, showing mountains, dragons and phoenixes, and clouds. See 05-01-02/18-21
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The stairs leading up to the Temple of Heaven, are separated by bands of sculpte...

Loring Brace, Anthropologist of the University of Michigan, with a skeleton in the background, photographed at the Museum of Natural History Vienna, Austria
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Loring Brace, Anthropologist of the University of Michigan, with a skeleton in...

Cast of the skull-cap of the Peking Man excavated in 1966 at Chou-K'ou-Tien, China. Middle Pleistocene (Diluvium). Height: 11.9 cm
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Cast of the skull-cap of the Peking Man excavated in 1966 at Cho...

Cast of skull and lower jaw-bone of the Lan-T'ien ape-man found in excavations at Lan-T'ien, Shensi, China, in 1963 and 1964. Height: 18 cm
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Cast of skull and lower jaw-bone of the Lan-T'ien ape-man found...

Skeleton, found near Les Eyzies, Dordogne, France. Magdalenian, beginning of Middle Stone Age (Mesolithic).
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Skeleton, found near Les Eyzies, Dordogne, Fr...