Search Images
Browse Content (p. 56)
Image
The Scramble for Africa after the Berlin Conference, 1885
The Berlin Conference of 1884-1885, also known as the Congo Conference, was convened by European powers to regulate colonization and trade in Africa during the New Imperialism period. Led by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck at the request...
Image
The Vision of Saint Bruno
The Vision of Saint Bruno, oil on canvas by Pier Francesco Mola, c. 1660.
Getty Center, Los Angeles, California.
Image
Saint Bruno the Carthusian
Saint Bruno, oil on panel by Girolamo Marchesi, c. 1525.
The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland.
Image
Grave of Michel Foucault
Grave of Michel Foucault in the Vendeuvre-du-Poitou cemetery.
Image
Michel Foucault
French philosopher Michel Foucault at the University of the State of Guanabara, 1974.
Brazilian National Archives.
Image
Early X-ray
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...
Image
An X-Ray with an Early Crookes Tube Apparatus
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...
Image
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
Portrait of W. C. Röntgen after a photograph by Nicola Perscheld, 1906.
Wellcome Collection.
Image
X-Ray Procedure Using a Fluoroscope
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...
Image
First Medical X-Ray
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.
