Images

The Vision of Saint Bruno, oil on canvas by Pier Francesco Mola, c. 1660. Getty Center, Los Angeles, California.

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...