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Skeleton of a boy sitting on the 'D' of 'Dream', from Francesco Bertinatti, Elementi di anatomia fisiologica applicata alle belle arti figurative (Turin, 1837-39). Artist: Mecco Leone. Lithograph
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A blurry x-ray of four fingers, one of them with a large ring. From The hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Roentgen: the first X-ray image, 1895. In Otto Glasser, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the early history of the Roentgen rays (London, 1933).

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The hand of Mrs. Wilhelm Roentgen: the first X-ray image, 1895

In Otto Glasser, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and the early history of the Roentgen rays. London, 1933. National Library of Medicine.

The announcement of Roentgen’s discovery, illustrated with an X-ray photograph of his wife’s hand, was hailed as one of mankind’s greatest technological accomplishments, an invention that would revolutionize every aspect of human existence.



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