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a
b
Figure 1. The typical chemical portrait in (a) photographs and (b) clip-art cartoons (from
clipart.com).
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b
c
Figure 2. (a) Illustration from Hunayn ibn Ishaq al-'Ibadi (Joannitius):
Isagoge Johannitii
in Tegni Galeni
(called
Articella
), Oxford, 13th century ms (DeRicci NLM [78], Fol. 42v,
National Library of Medicine). (b) Illustration from Avicenna,
Canon medicinae
, trans.
from Arab by Gerard of Cremona) France, 1283; decoration added c. 1350-1400 (The
Hague, MMW, 10 B 24, fol. 8r, National Library of the Netherlands). (c) Relief of medi-
cine by Andrea Pisano (1295-1348) from 1334-6, after a drawing by Giotto; lower part,
close to the allegorical depictions of the seven liberal arts, of Giotto's Campanile at the
Cathedral of Florence (repr. from Schadewaldt 1967, p. 105).
