Science Source December 28, 2009 DVD

View of the ten foot tall statue of the falcon god Horus in front of the temple dedicated to him in town of Edfu, halfway between Aswan and Luxor, on...

Pillars in the Temple of Khnum at Esna, Egypt.

Luigi Galvani (1737-1798), Italian physician and physicist. A teacher of medicine in Bologna, Galvani's great interest was "anmal electricity." In one...

Edward Jenner (1749-1823), English physician and developer of the first vaccine (against smallpox).

A drawing made by inventor Alessandro Volta (1745 - 1827), of the first electric battery, called the "pile" or the Voltaic battery. This was the first...

Band-Aid on finger.

Chinese American family heirloom abacus in San Francisco, CA. The abacus is an early calculating device.

Black mold pathogen (Aspergillus niger); growth inhibition caused by a Bacillus bacteria.

Gold necklace with bat pendants from Colombia, 1000-1500 AD.

Peruvian gold "tweezer" pendant with stylized feline heads and a bird, from the Moche culture, 200-700 AD.

Peruvian gold and turquoise human figure, the hilt of a tumi from the Chimu culture. A tumi is a sacrificial ceremonial knife.

Earthquake damage. Palicio del Ayuntamiento destroyed by eartthquake. Managua, Nicaragua.

Petra, Jordan. Carved from rock, this treasury (Al Khazneh) was built by the Nabataeans, whose empire lasted from the 4th century BC to the 4th centur...

Skull of an Easter Islander discovered in a 1978 dig.

Grave discovered in a 1978 Easter Island dig.

Grave discovered in a 1978 Easter Island dig.

Anhingas (Anhinga anhinga), called black-bellied darters in John James Audubon's Birds of America, plate 316.

Gross specimen of a blue iris from an autopsy.

Sperry gyrocompass on the bridge of a cruise ship. This type of compass is not affected by the rolling of the boat. The gyrocompass finds true north u...

A Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan showing Alzheimer's Disease in the brain.

PET brain scans showing a normal brain (left) and the brain of a patient with dementia (right).

Abstract of a laser and laser set-up stand.

Exterior of the linear accelerator at Stanford University, which has been operational since 1966.

Diffraction pattern.

View of the terraced mortuary temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir el-Bahri. Deir el-Bahri is a complex of mortuary temples and tombs located on the wes...

Toltec head in the National Museum of Anthropology, Mexico.

Antique microscope.

Historic image, (1978), of a core memory card. Core memory has since been replaced by the silicon chip.

Gold chest ornament with a human face, dating from before 1000 AD and belonging to the Calima culture of Colombia.

Gold chest ornament with a human face, dating from before 1000 AD and belonging to the Calima culture of Colombia.

Australia, Tasmania, Devonport, Theodolite.

Streptococcus pyogenes ("strep throat" bacteria). Beta hemolysis on sheep blood agar plate.

Streptococcus pyogenes; betahemolysis on sheep blood; agar plate.

Historic image, (1981), of an old computer tape library, full of magnetic data storage tapes; Valley Forge, PA.

A variety of stones, including agates, rhodocrosite and tiger's eye, polished and cut into cabochons for jewelry.

Boy with black eye.

Orrery with crank to turn inner planets and moon around sun. Made circa 1790. Attributed to Benjamin Martin, a London instrument maker.

Chronosphere or "time globe" made in France circa 1840 for sale in England. Clockwork in base turns globe every 24 hours. The small globe represents t...

An Inca mummy on display at the Archaeological Museum, Cusco, Peru.

An Inca mummy on display at the Archaeological Museum, Cusco, Peru.

Cueva de las Manos (Spanish for Cave of the Hands), Santa Cruz, Argentina. The paintings of hands were made by indigenous people (perhaps ancestors of...

Rock painting by bushmen, Capetown, South Africa.

Collarette and pupil from a dark brown iris.

Fundus camera image of a normal optic nerve and retinal vessels.

Normal brown eye, slit lamp photo.

Cross section of a human eye.

Section showing the nasal half of the eye. Clearly visible are: the posterior surface of the iris, the pars plicata and pars plana of the ciliary body...

Excavation of the Coyolxauhqui Stone at Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 1978. The Templo Mayor was an important Aztec temple. It was dedicated to two gods,...

Excavation of a Feathered Serpent at Templo Mayor, Mexico City, 1978. The Templo Mayor was an important Aztec temple. It was dedicated to two gods, Hu...

Kaeidoscopic view.