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Woman standing on lily pad (1902)

woman standing on giant lilypad, 1900s
Woman standing on a leaf of Victoria cruziana in the lily pond in front of the Linnean House of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1902. Notice the wood sheet used to distribute her weight, so as to prevent the ripping of the delicate leaf, 1902 | Missouri Botanical Garden
Woman standing on a leaf of Victoria cruziana in the lily pond in front of the Linnean House of the Missouri Botanical Garden, 1902.
Notice the wood sheet used to distribute her weight, so as to prevent the ripping of the delicate leaf, 1902 | Missouri Botanical Garden

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Eduard Valenta & Josef Maria Eder :: X Ray of Angelfish and Surgeonfish (Zanclus cornutus and Acanthurus nigros), 1896 [Photogravure] / src: The Met

“Eder was the director of an institute for graphic processes and the author of an early history of photography. With the photochemist Valenta, he produced a portfolio in January 1896, less than a month after Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen published his discovery of X-rays. Eder and Valenta’s volume, from which this plate derives, demonstrated the X-ray’s magical ability to reveal the hidden structure of living things.” src: The Met