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Pictures of people mentioned in the book, roughly in order of appearance.
Aristotle
Galen
Paracelsus
Sylvius and his wife
 
The Medici brothers, Ferdinando (left) and Leopoldo (right)
Cosimo Medici
Lord Brouncker, President of the Royal Society
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch physicist who reported the work of Leeuwenhoek
William Croone (or Croune), Secretary of the Royal Society
1834 portrait of Ernst von Baer, the first person to see the human egg
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