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Five southern constellations (from the top): Hydra, Corvus, Centaurus with Lepus (usually a hare, but here a yellow long-tailed cat), and, at the bott...

Creatures from the Island of Zanj including gray and green winged humanoids. From 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawjudat (Marvels of Things Crea...

Four mythical creatures: a humanoid with his head in his chest, a human-headed turtle, and two half-sectioned women. From 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghar...

A dragon (thu'ban). From 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawjudat (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing) by Abu Yah...

Two animal-headed demons or jinn, one blue and one black. From 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawjudat (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous...

A warrior on horseback, with the rider carrying a mace and wearing a tiger-skin cloak and a leopard-skin hat. From the chapter on the occult propertie...

A turbaned, bearded male with dagger in his waistband sits on a couch. Behind him there is a servant with a flywhisk, and before him a bearded turbane...

This copy of 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawjudat (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing) by Abu Yahya Zakariya'...

The constellation Ursa Minor. From 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawjudat (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing)...

Four mythical creatures: A long-tailed green bird, a human-headed fish, a flying fish, and a large fish. From 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawj...

An animal-headed demon labeled al-ghidar (the liar, the perfidious), and a horned harpy. From 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawjudat (Marvels of...

Assorted demons (jinns) and strange creatures, one playing a musical stringed instrument. From 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawjudat (Marvels o...

Two dark-skinned dog-headed demons with pearls and feathers, both sticking out their tongues; a yellow wolf-headed demon with wrist beads (noise-maker...

Six animal-headed demons or jinn, all (except the blue elephant-headed demons) snapping their fingers. From 'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawjud...

Bottle of diphtheria antitoxin, produced by the Hygienic Laboratory and dated May 8, 1895. Diphtheria is an upper respiratory tract illness caused by...

Package of dried antitetanic serum from 1907 compared to a vial of tetanus antitoxin circa 1970-1980. An antitoxin is an antibody with the ability to...

Joseph James Kinyoun (November 25, 1860-February 14, 1919) was founder and first director 1887-1899 of the United States' Hygienic Laboratory. Kinyoun...

Joseph James Kinyoun (November 25, 1860-February 14, 1919) was founder and first director 1887-1899 of the United States' Hygienic Laboratory. Kinyoun...

As epidemics swept across the United States in the 19th century, the US government recognized the pressing need for a national lab dedicated to the st...

U.S. Marine Hospital No. 21 in Stapleton, Staten Island, New York. The one-room Hygienic Laboratory, forerunner of the National Institutes of Health,...

Microscope of Joseph J. Kinyoun, founder of the Hygienic Laboratory, which evolved into the National Institutes of Health. A microscope is an optical...

Plaque commemorating the site where, on Dec. 2, 1942, the first controlled, self-sustaining chain reaction took place underneath the University of Chi...

Maria Mitchell (left) with an assistant at Vassar, 1888. Maria Mitchell (1818-1889) was the first American women to work as a professional astronomer....

Beijing Ancient Observatory, also known as Peking Observatory, in 1747. It was completed in 1442. Although there were no telescopes at this observator...

Frederick William Herschel (November 15, 1738 - August 25, 1822) was a German-British astronomer, technical expert, and composer. Born in Hanover, Ger...

Caroline Herschel (1750-1848), a German astronomer who lived in England and assisted her brother William Herschel in his astronomical observations. Sh...

The original Royal Observatory at Greenwich, which was built for the first English Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed. The foundation stone was laid on A...

Nighttime view of Palomar Observatory dome with its shutter open. This dome at the Palomar Observatory in California houses the 200-inch Hale telescop...

Griffith Observatory on Mount Hollywood in Los Angeles, founded in 1935. The right copper dome houses the solar telescope, the left one the Zeiss refr...

Photograph of the sun by Lewis M. Rutherford in New York, September 22, 1870. Rutherfurd (1816-1892) was an American lawyer and astronomer, and a pion...

San Cristobel Observatory near Santiago, with El Plomo Mountain in the background, Chile.

Edwin Hubble (1889-1953) with the 48" Schmidt Telescope, Palomar Observatory, 1949. Hubble discovered that the degree of "Doppler shift" observed in t...

Uraniborg, an astronomical observatory operated by Tycho Brahe in Denmark. Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was a Danish astronomer. After becoming interested...

Tycho Brahe's underground observatory of Stjerneborg next to his palace-observatory Uraniborg, located on the island of Hven in Oresund. Under the lar...

This picture of Fraunhofer lines is taken from an original work by Fraunhofer himself. These lines appear as narrow dark stripes on the variously colo...

The 2-meter (79-inch) reflector telescope of the Ondrejov Observatory. The Ondrejov Observatory is the principal observatory the Astronomical Institut...

Albert Einstein and Albert Michelson met at Mount Wilson in 1931, just before Michelson's death. From left to right are Milton Humason, Edwin Hubble,...

Albert Einstein with fellow scientists at Mount Wilson Observatory near Los Angeles, California, on January 31, 1931. From left to right in the front...

Illustration from the astronomer Johann Hevelius's "The Celestial Machine" from 1679, which he presented to his English "opposite number" Edmund Halle...

An engraving of astronomical and scientific instruments at the first Viennese observatory from 1745, which was the best equipped observatory of its ti...

The front of the Paris Observatory, completed in 1671. It predates the Royal Greenwich Observatory in England by four years. The architect of the Pari...

The Paris Observatory, completed in 1671. It predates the Royal Greenwich Observatory in England by four years. The architect of the Paris Observatory...

Christiaan Huygens, (1629-1695) a prominent Dutch mathematician, astronomer, physicist and horologist. His work included early telescopic studies eluc...

Latting Observatory on 42nd St. between 5th and 6th Avenues in New York City. It built as part of the 1853 Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations,...

The quadrant, which was gradually improved by John Hadley, who, in 1723, provided two mirrors, one to bring the image of the heavenly body being oberv...

The old U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, DC, which was built in 1844.

Historical illustration of the spectrograph of the Astrophysical Observatory in Potsdam, 1870s. This observatory is now the Leibniz Institute for Astr...

A photograph from 1897 of the 40-inch (1.02 m) refractor telescope, at Yerkes Observatory, in Williams Bay, Wisconsin, the largest achromatic refracto...

The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) in 1960. Kitt Peak is part of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert southwest of Tucson. Shown...

Yerkes Observatory, Williams Bay, Wisconsin in 1937. Founded in 1892 by Charles Tyson Yerkes, the institution belongs to the University of Chicago. Th...