Mélusine

Mélusine

P. Christian. Histoire de la Magie. Paris : Furne, 1884. 

Metal engraving

Fuente: http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/imagerecord.php?record=69

Chiragra arthritica rugosa

Rugose Spider Conch.   Shell size 120 - 170 mm.   c Pacific 

Stromboidea Family

Fuente: http://www.gastropods.com/2/Shell_4462.shtml

Daphne

Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Apollo and Daphne

Life-size marble sculpture, begun by Bernini at the age of twenty-four and executed between 1622 and 1625

Fuente: http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/edafne.htm

Músculos

Faustino  Anderloni    1766-1847

Anatomía. Músculos del cuello y  hombro

Fuente: http://link.library.utoronto.ca/anatomia/

Lutetia

 

Fotografía en primer plano del asteroide Lutetia, una reliquia cubierta de cráteres que proviene del nacimiento del sistema solar.  10 de julio de 2010.  Crédito: ESA.

Nave espacial Rosetta, de la Agencia Espacial Europea (European Space Agency, ESA) 

Fuente: http://ciencia.nasa.gov/astronomia/14jul_rosetta/

Haliphron atlanticus

Seven Armed Octopus (Haliphron atlanticus) from Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, prince souverain de Monaco fascicule #9, by J. de Guerne & Ch. Richard.

Fuente: http://rhamphotheca.tumblr.com/post/6357165141/oral-view-of-seven-armed-octopus-haliphron

Cervical fascia

The superficial layer of the cervical fascia by Erich Lepier from Eduard Pernkopf’s Topographische Anatomie des Menschen.

Fuente: http://scientificillustration.tumblr.com/page/32

El Rapto de la Sabina

 

Jean Boulogne (Douai, 1529 - Florencia 1608),  Giovanni Da Bologna  (Giambologna)

El Rapto de la Sabina  (1574-82)

Mármol.  Florencia Ufizzi

Fuente: http://raquelrodriguezarte.blogspot.com/

Avarice

 

Avarice, Print, Engraving.

Circa 1587

Plate 6 from Matham's series The Vices

Jacob Matham (1571–1631)

Fuente: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Matham

Flour beetle

 

Flour beetle
This false coloured scanning electron micrograph (SEM) shows a flour beetle. Flour beetles are members of the species Tribolium  and are adapted to survive in very dry environments and often found on stored products.

Credit Kevin MacKenzie, University of Aberdeen

Scanning electron micrograph 2010
Collection: Wellcome Images

Fungi

 

Various fungi - 16 species, including Jew's ear (Auricularia auricula), puffballs (Lycoperdon) and Agaricus and Boletus species. 

Coloured lithograph by A. Cornillon, c. 1827, after Prieur

1827 By: Prieur after: A. Cornillon and Michel Etienne Descourtilz
Paris,  1827

Fuente:  http://images.wellcome.ac.uk/

De motu cordis

 

LANCISI, Giovanni Maria (1654-1720).  

De motu cordis et aneurysmatibus, opus posthumum in duas partes divisum. 

Rome, Giovanni Maria Salvioni, 1728

  

Fuente: http://longstreet.typepad.com/thesciencebookstore/2011/02/heart.html

L'éclipse

 

 

Photo de l'éclipse totale de soleil de 1999. Photo ayant servie à la réalisation des affiches, visuels merchandising, dvd, pour le film Twilight Eclipse

Photography by  Luc Viatour

Fuente: http://www.lucnix.be/gallery2/

Lucifer: le Génie du Mal

 

Guillaume Geefs  (1805-1883)

Lucifer: le Génie du Mal, dans la cathédrale Saint-Paul, à Liège, 1848

Photography by Luc Viatour, 2008

Fuente: http://www.lucnix.be/main.php?g2_itemId=16576

Satyr and nymph

After a work attributed to Marco Dente (da Ravenna) (c. 1493 - 1527), printmaker
After Giulio Romano (Pippi) (1499 - 1546), designer

A satyr carrying a nymph

Fuente: http://www.ashmolean.eu/ash/objects/

Filogranella elatensis

Filogranella elatensis

This is a close shot of a worm colony, which normally consists of dozens of similar rigid tubes sheltering serpulid worms.

Authors of description of  F. elatensis are Dr. Jacob Dafni and Dr. N. Ben-Eliahu

Fuente: http://www.divegallery.com/tubeworm.htm

Egyptian Cat

Bronze figure of a egyptian cat

From Saqqara, Egypt
Late Period, after 600 BC

Height: 42.000 cm
Width: 13.000 cm

Fuente: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/

Utriusque cosmi maioris

 

Robert Fludd (1574-1637). Utriusque cosmi maioris

scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atque

technica histori. Oppenheim, 1619.

Fuente: http://www.dekleurenschaar.nl/fluddsite/html/afbeeldingen_fludd.html

Two marine monsters

Giovanni Andrea Maglioli (active 1580 - 1610), printmaker

Two marine monsters

engraving, 1580 - 1610

Fuente: http://www.ashmolean.eu/

The Inferno

The Inferno

Anonymous Florentine (Fine Manner), printmaker
After a work attributed to Andrea di Cione, (called Orcagna) (c. 1315/1320 - 1368), designer
After a work attributed to Francesco Traini (active 1321 - 1345), designer

Fuente: http://www.ashmolean.eu/ash/objects/