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Kronheim's illustrations to Foxe's Book of Martyrs

20090418

I Martyrdom of St. Paul
II Death of Admiral de Coligny
III Assassination of la Place
IV Barnes and his Fellow-Prisoners Seeking Forgiveness
V Latimer before the Council
VI Bradford Appeasing the Riot at St. Paul's Cross
VII Death of Cranmer
VIII Prest's Wife and the Stonemason

Henry Holiday's illustrations to Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark"

20090705

I: The landing
II: The crew
III: The Beaver and the Butcher
IV: The Bellman's map
V: "..."But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, / If your Snark be a Boojum! ..."
VI: "...They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; / They pursued it with forks and hope..."
VII: The Butcher's Lesson to the Beaver.
VIII: The Barrister's Dream
IX: The Banker's Fate
X: "...He had softly and suddenly vanished away-- / For the Snark was a Boojum, you see."

Platonic solids stereo animations

20090801

Tetrahedron
Cube
Octahedron
Dodecahedron
Icosahedron

Turgot map of Paris, Kyoto University Library

20120413

Synhalonia on Phlomis

20121028

The Early Poems of Alfred, Lord Tennyson

20121130

The Garden at Somersby Rectory
Mariana
The Deserted House
The Lady of Shalott
Œnone
The Lotos-Eaters
St. Simeon Stylites
Sleeping Beauty
Sir Galahad
Break, Break, Break

Burning of McPhersonville

20121210

Original sketch by William Waud
As published in Harper's Weekly

NGC 300 by ESO

20121212

This wide field image shows the area around the spiral galaxy NGC 300, six million light-years from Earth.
This chart shows the location of the NGC 300 galaxy within the constellation of Sculptor.
The southern spiral galaxy NGC 300
The irregular galaxy NGC 55, who is slowly spinning around and towards NGC 300, in the early stages of a lengthy merging process.
This image composite shows the spiral galaxy NGC 300, as well as the position of the stellar-mass black hole in the galaxy.
This artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300.
This sequence gives a close-up view of the southern spiral galaxy NGC 300
This zoom sequence starts with a view of part of the faint southern constellation of Sculptor and finish with a close-up of NGC 300 galaxy
This video zooms in NGC 300 onto the position of the system containing the stellar-mass black hole, and finishes with an artist’s impression of the system.
This artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300.
This artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300.

Chloroplast and Mitochondrion

20121215

Diagram of a Chloroplastpage
Diagram of a Mitochondrion

Stained Glass windows in the Saint Antony church of Urtijëi

20130122

Saint Anne with Mary as a child
Saint Benedict of Nursia with the book, the snake, pelican, raven
Saint Joseph and Jesus
Saint Francis of Assisi
Angels with the symbols of the passion of Jesus Christ
Angels with the symbols of the Catholic Church

The Four Evangelists in "Les Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne"

20130217

Saint Matthew
Saint Mark
Saint Luke
Saint John

Stained glass windows by Champigneulle in Notre-Dame de Sablé-sur-Sarthe

20130320

Procession des saints de Bretagne

20130327

Diocese of Rennes
Diocese of Vannes
Diocese of Quimper
Diocese of Saint-Pol-de-Léon
Diocese of Tréguier
Diocese of Saint-Brieuc
Diocese of Saint-Malo
Diocese of Dol

Vatican City maps

20130419

English version
German version
Italian version
French version

Lime butterfly, dorsal and side views

20130808

Side view
Dorsal view

Théo Mancheron competes in the men's decathlon pole vault

20130811

Puck of Pook's Hill

20131005

Frontispiece: They saw a small, brown ... pointy-eared person ... step quietly into the Ring
Weland's Sword: Then he made a sword
Young Men at the Manor: 'At this she cried that I was a Norman thief'
Young Men at the Manor: Said he, 'I have it all from the child here'
Young Men at the Manor: 'Sir Richard, will it please you enter your Great Hall?'
The Knights of the Joyous Venture: 'And we two tumbled aboard the Dane'
The Knights of the Joyous Venture: Thorkild had given back before his Devil, till the bowmen on the ship could shoot it all full of arrows
The Knights of the Joyous Venture: 'So we called no more'
Old Men at Pevensey: 'A' God's Name write her free, before she deafens me!'
Old Men at Pevensey: He drew his dagger on Jehan, who threw him down the stairway
A Centurion of the Thirtieth: 'You put the bullet into that loop'
On the Great Wall: 'And that is the Wall!'
The Winged Hats: 'Hail, Caesar!'
The Winged Hats: 'We dealt with them thoroughly through a long day'
The Winged Hats: 'The Wall must be won at a price'
The Winged Hats: Where they had suffered most, there they charged in most hotly
Hal o' the Draft: 'I reckon you'll find her middlin' heavy,' he says
'Dymchurch Flit': 'I know what sort o' man you be,' old Hobden grunted, groping for the potatoes
The Treasure and the Law: Doors shut, candles lit
The Treasure and the Law: 'They drove me across the drawbridge'

Pine trees screen

20131103

Illustrations about the crystallisation in Naica for wikijunior

20131210

Main page, the girl seeing giant crystals
Location of naica Mine in the World
Location and difference between crystal caves in Naica
Crystals in "espadas" cave
Crystals in "cristales" cave
Size differences between caves
All things are made by atoms and molecules
Molecular difference between crystals and glass
How are crystals formed
Calcium sulphate and water form gypsum crystals
The molecules are stacked
Speed of crystallization in "espadas" result in smaller crystals
Slowly crystallization in "cristales" cave result in giant crystals
Temperature differences determine the density and velocity
This is why the size of crystal is different between the caves

Lagoon Nebula by ESO

20140322

This new infrared view of the star formation region Messier 8, often called the Lagoon Nebula, was captured by the VISTA telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.
The VLT Survey Telescope (VST) at ESO's Paranal Observatory in Chile has captured this richly detailed new image of the Lagoon Nebula.
Gas and dust condense, beginning the process of creating new stars in this image of Messier 8, also known as the Lagoon Nebula.