go to the Wellcome Library's new image bank and find your favorite scientific image.
On the old blog, I wrote a post about an X-ray Wilhelm von Röntgen took of his wife's hand and wedding ring. While hunting for that image, I came across this X-ray of a snake eating a mouse by Sir Arthur Schuster, taken in 1896. It is at least as cool, and is much more biological.
Which pictures are your favorites?
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