Rather than etched on vinyl, tiny grooves were cut onto a medical X-ray, tracing shallow circles over the ghostly shapes of bones.
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“I Have Seen My Death”: The First X-Ray Photograph
In December of 1895, Wilhelm Röntgen revealed the bones of his wife’s hand in the first X-ray photograph.
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A Radiologist’s X-Ray Photographs of Flowers from the 1930s
When we think of X-rays, we generally think of the human body’s skeletal structure, but in the 1930s, one osteopathist turned his attention to the anatomy of plants and used his X-ray machine as what it fundamentally exists as: a camera.
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Secret Skulls Found in a Victorian Painting of a 16th-Century Magician
A ring of human skulls originally circled 16th-century magician John Dee in a painting by the English artist Henry Gillard Glindoni.
