Images

Saint Bruno, oil on panel by Girolamo Marchesi, c. 1525. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.

Grave of Michel Foucault in the Vendeuvre-du-Poitou cemetery.

French philosopher Michel Foucault at the University of the State of Guanabara, 1974. Brazilian National Archives.

X-rays were discovered in 1895 by German scientist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845-1923). This is an early X-ray, taken in 1897, of a 30-year-old woman who was fully dressed when the X-ray was taken. Image from p.180 of The American X-ray...

Two men taking an X-ray with an early Crookes tube apparatus from the late 1800s. Illustration from The X-ray, or Photography of the Invisible and its Value in Surgery by William J. Morton and Edwin W. Hammer. American Technical Book...

Portrait of W. C. Röntgen after a photograph by Nicola Perscheld, 1906. Wellcome Collection.

Photo of an early X-ray procedure using a fluoroscope screen, around 1910. No precautions were taken to minimise exposure since the dangers of X-rays were not known at the time. Illustration from p. 233 of The Story of Great Inventions...

The bones of a hand with a ring on one finger, viewed through x-ray. Photoprint from radiograph by W. K. Röntgen, 1895. Wellcome Collection.

The model of Herod's mausoleum, the first storey was a plinth, which supported the second, square one; above this was a circular tholos, which incorporated an internal chamber surrounded by an Ionic colonnade, topped by a dome. Herodium...

The lower terrace of Herod's Northern Palace, Masada, Israel. The lower terrace was used for receptions and banquets. It was enclosed on all four sides with porticoes and included a Roman baths.