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25 images from works
  • Distribution of leprosy around the world
  • The last moments of Napoleon Bonaparte at St Helena, 1821. Engraving by Bovinet and Couché after Gudin.
  • A map of Zambia containing numerous women saying no to sex before marriage; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Anti-AIDS Project and Copperbelt Health Education Project in Zambia. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • A map of Berlin highlighting the locations of AIDS-related organisations within the city with the words; a warning issued by the Senator for Social Health and Youth and Family. Colour lithograph, 199-.
  • World map in the form of an FFA of the retina
  • The Greek World with sites for History of Anatomy.
  • Two maps of India highlighting the growing HIV statistics in 1992 and 1993 by Spitnacs, Societal Projects Information Training Networking and Consultancy Services. Colour lithograph, ca.1993-7.
  • A map of the world with the four elements, according to Ptolomy, Earth, Water, Fire, Air, and the North and South Hemispheres and their star signs.
  • Distribution of leprosy around the world
  • A map of Zambia containing numerous men saying no to casual sex; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Anti-AIDS Project and Copperbelt Health Education Project in Zambia. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

Works from the collections

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    Techniques for engraving maps (top), and musical notation (below): tools shown between. Engraving by Defehrt (maps) and Madame de Lusse (music).

    | Reference: 40512i
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    Geography: six views of the Earth, showing different ways of projecting information. Engraving.

    | Reference: 46627i
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    Cortical bone mapping of hip from computed tomography (CT)

    Tom Turmezei, Ken Poole and Graham Treece, University of Cambridge
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    Arabia in early maps : a bibliography of maps covering the peninsula of Arabia, printed in western Europe from the invention of printing to the year 1751 / G.R. Tibbetts.

    Tibbetts, G. R. (Gerald Randall) | Date: [1978], ©1978
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    A map of Zambia containing numerous women saying no to sex before marriage; a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Anti-AIDS Project and Copperbelt Health Education Project in Zambia. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.

    | Date: [1996?] | Reference: 678773i

Related topics

London
Constipation
Thames River (England)
Spasm
Gay men
Intestinal Diseases
Phenethylamines
Abdominal Pain
Lesbians
Geography

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