9 Britannica Articles That Explain the Meaning of Life: Media
(…or lack thereof.)
Images
The Sombrero Galaxy (M104) is a normal spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo....
NASA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Sagittarius Star Cloud
The Sagittarius Star Cloud as seen through the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA)
timeline of life on Earth
Over hundreds of millions of years, life spread through the seas and over Earth's...
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dancing
skeletons
A Dance of Death is a woodcut print from about 1493.
"Registrum huius operis libri cronicarum cu [cum] figuris et imagibus [imaginibus] ab inicio mudi [mundi" by Hartmann Schedel and Michael Wolgemut, 1493/Archive.org
Darwin: On the Origin of Species
Title page of the 1859 edition of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-95224)
Leonardo da Vinci: Vitruvian Man
Vitruvian Man, silverpoint and pen and ink drawing by Leonardo da Vinci,...
© Creatas/Getty Images
Ciro Ferri: Triumph of Bacchus
Triumph of Bacchus, oil on canvas by Ciro Ferri, 17th century; 141 × 205.7...
In a private collection
DNA sequencing
A nucleotide sequence determined using DNA sequencing technologies.
© Ryan McVay—Photodisc/Getty Images
first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica
First edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, published 1768–71.
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