# spaceskeletonsaturday

Melvyn Grant's album art for Iron Maiden's 'The Final Frontier' might be from 2010, but Grant's career in sci-fi cover art started back in 1977, so this has that authentic retro feel.

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2021-10-10

Happy Have you listened to our eastern equine encephalitis episode yet?

From Die Anatomie des Pferdes. NIH

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2020-05-31

Please join us on this in saying 😱to this beautiful and shudder-inducing 19th century medical illustration by Nicholas Hennri Jacob

Found on: https://t.co/BgdxErmBKJ

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2019-09-29

Happy The title of this dark little comic from 1815 is "The Honeymoon". There's a lot going on here, but can someone explain what's up with the dog?

By Thomas Rowlandson. In book The English Dance of Death, Vol 1, 1815. Getty Research Institute.

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2019-09-01

Wowza, this one is a beaut. And also slightly horrifying, just how we like it. Happy

From Atlas d'anatomie descriptive du corps humain by Bonamy & Broca, 1844. Found on https://t.co/ACTFGEk05J.

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2019-08-18

Happy Check out this magnificent illustration by J. Bisbee from 1837 showing the blood vessels of the body.

From NLM

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2019-07-28

This beautiful, unusual, and frankly kind of terrifying cross-section of the head comes from Braune's Atlas of Topographical Anatomy, published in 1872 . Happy

Drawing by C. Schmiedel. From NIH.

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2019-07-21

Happy everyone! We hope you're feeling happier than this sad pile of bones!

The English Dance of Death. Thomas Rowlandson, 1815. Getty Research Institute.

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2019-07-14

Things have been a bit busy for us so we’ve been slacking on our social media.. but we’d never miss a

This gorgeous illustration is from a Persian medical encyclopedia published in the 1600s. From National Library of Medicine.

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2019-06-23

Put your best foot bone forward on this by gazing at this beautiful illustration by Christoph Jacob Trew.

From NIH

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2019-04-28

Here's hoping your is less ghoulish than the one in this drawing from an 1808 book.

From the British Library

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2019-01-06

It's y'all. What do you think that scroll that he's got in his hand says? Or maybe it's a baton?

Christoph Jacob Trew: Tabulae osteologicae. From NIH

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2018-12-16