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Spermatozoa

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Gametes

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Images from the collections

Images about Spermatozoa

17 images from works
  • Scheme for in vitro fertilisation
  • Dragons and griffins around a lone flowering tree in a landscape on the outskirts of a town; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • Sperm swimming towards an egg
  • Dragons and griffins around a lone flowering tree in a landscape on the outskirts of a town; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • Spermatozoa approaching an egg; representing equality between men and women, and the undesirability of inequality. Colour lithograph, 2004.
  • Dragons and griffins around a lone flowering tree in a landscape on the outskirts of a town; representing a stage in the alchemical process. Coloured etching after etching, ca. 17th century.
  • Figures of homunculi in semen.
  • A multi-horned ram holding a staff and flag within a red planet with an orange glow at the centre of a starry universe; a red drawn multi-headed fire-breathing winged serpent and personified half-moon in the lower half of the image, yellow drawn knights on horseback coming to the rescue and a glowing sun in the upper half; an astronaut hovers at the right side of the planet while an angel flies at the left; advertising the danger of AIDS. Colour lithograph by Nelson Garrido, ca. 1994/5.
  • Adult goat testis
  • Ways in which the HIV virus is transmitted representing one of a series of posters in an advertising campaign about AIDS by the Agence Française Lutte Contre le SIDA. Colour lithograph.

Works from the collections

48 works

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    Über den chemischen Charakter des Befruchtungsvorgangs und seine Bedeutung für die Theorie der Lebenserscheinungen : Vortrag gehalten auf dem Internationalen Zoologenkongress zu Boston am 22. August 1907 / von Jacques Loeb.

    Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924. | Date: 1908
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    Prof Thaddeus Mann.

    | Date: 1993
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    Spermatozoa approaching an egg; representing equality between men and women, and the undesirability of inequality. Colour lithograph, 2004.

    Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. | Date: [2004] | Reference: 654104i
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    Note on the penetration of the spermatozoon into the interior of the ovum / by Martin Barry, M.D.

    Barry, M. (Martin), 1802-1855. | Date: [1854]
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    Über den chemischen Charakter des Befruchtungsvorgangs und seine Bedeutung für die Theorie der Lebenserscheinungen : Vortrag gehalten auf dem Internationalen Zoologenkongress zu Boston am 22. August 1907 / von Jacques Loeb.

    Loeb, Jacques, 1859-1924. | Date: 1908
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Related topics

Reproduction
Fertilization
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Ovum
AIDS (Disease) - Prevention
Safe Sex
Fertility
Ovum
Semen
Mammals

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