Swallowing Gallery

Wormhole

Wormhole, conceptual computer illustration. A wormhole is a hypothetical tunnel through space. It could provide a route between two distant points that bypassed the space between them. Solutions of the equations of general relativity exist that would allow wormholes; however, a stable wormhole would need matter with exotic properties (negative energy density) and it is not known if this could actually exist. It is thought that at the very small scales of quantum physics, wormholes may not only be possible but could even constantly be forming and being destroyed

© Mark Garlick/Science Photo Library

Illustration, A Song of the English, The Sea

Illustration to A Song of the English, a patriotic set of poems by Rudyard Kipling (first published in the English Illustrated Magazine). She Calls Us, Still Unfed, depicting a sailing ship on the sea, with an allegorical female figure floating in the foreground, referring to the many English sailors lost at sea over hundreds of years. Date: first published 1893

© The Sharp Illustration Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library

AARON'S STAFF TRANSFORMS. Aarons staff becomes a serpent, which swallows the other

AARON'S STAFF TRANSFORMS.
Aaron's staff becomes a serpent, which swallows the other serpents created by Eqyptian magicians, while Moses (right) turns the waters into blood. (Exodus 7: 8-25). Woodcut from the Cologne Bible, 1478-80

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