CONTENTS
There are some 300 diagrams here.
Camouflage
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Camouflage by counteracting shadow
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Motion camouflage, real-point
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Motion camouflage, infinite-point
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Constant bearing, decreasing range: avoiding collisions and motion camouflage are surprisingly similar
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The intended effect of dazzle camouflage
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Melanophore cells
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The herring's reflectors for camouflage
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Squid counterillumination camouflage
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Counterillumination camouflage with Yehudi lights
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Light-producing organ of Hawaiian Bobtail Squid, Euprymna scolopes
History and philosophy of science
editHistory of Physics
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Aristotle's constitutions
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The four classical elements (fire, air, water, earth) of Empedocles and Aristotle in a burning log
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Aristotle's Four Causes illustrated for a table: material (wood), formal (design), efficient (carpentry), final (dining)
History of Biology
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Aristotle's biology, theory of inheritance
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Darwin's pangenesis theory
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Darwin's blending inheritance
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Weismann's germ plasm theory
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Haeckel's ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny vs von Baer's laws
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Alternative explanations of punctuated equilibrium
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Lamarck's two-factor theory, not at all what everyone thinks
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Lysenkoist vegetative hybridisation (Lamarckian, or horizontal gene transfer perhaps)
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Land bridges for Hooker to explain Aus, NZ, S.Am plant group similarities as common descent in Flora Antarctica
Agriculture
editBiology
editDrawings
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Mole cricket's exponential horn amplifier
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Frenulo-retinacular wing coupling in male and female moths (praise)
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Morpho butterfly scale multilayer structures
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Runcaria megasporangium and cupule drawing
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Parakaryon myojinensis, a cell with an endosymbiont, but neither prokaryotic nor eukaryotic
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Leech moving by looping using its front and back suckers
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Leech anatomy in cross-section
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Jellyfish locomotion
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Embioptera - foldable wings
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Scorpion - venom squirting
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Turtle skeleton infographic
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"How the Turtle Gets its Shell"
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Daffodil flower parts, labelled
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Outline drawing of Ubysseya fretuma (Provora)
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Sexual reproduction: the barnacle uses its long penis to reach across to another individual nearby.
Diagrams
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Wilson's matryoshka doll group selection model
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Wasps are paraphyletic
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Whales are paraphyletic
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Tree secondary growth diagram
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Path integration diagram
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Emerald Swallowtail Papilio palinurus scale structure
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Buttercup structural and pigment coloration
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Vitamin C biosynthesis in plants
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Vitamin C biosynthesis in vertebrates
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Bilaterian body plan
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Physiology of eusociality in fire ants
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Fish habitat diversity
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Strawberry vs peapod anatomy
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Apple anatomy, flower and fruit compared
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How to attract mosquitoes
Mimicry and speciation
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Batesian vs Müllerian mimicry with photos
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Batesian vs Müllerian mimicry diagram
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Formation of Müllerian mimicry rings
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Ant mimicry types, Batesian vs myrmecophily
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Evolution of Vavilovian mimicry
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Pouyannian mimicry and pseudocopulation
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Aggressive Mimicry of Ants
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Kirbyan mimicry: brood parasite mimics host
Genetics and development
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ABC model of flower development guided by three groups of homeotic genes
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Haplodiploid sex determination in honey bees
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Heterochrony, a change in the timing or rate of embryonic development
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Hybridisation and polyploidy in strawberries
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Evolution of mosquito mouthparts
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Mosquito Life-Cycle
Lamarckism
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Edward J. Steele's proposed Neo-Lamarckian mechanism
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Neo-Lamarckian inheritance of hologenome
Interspecific relationships
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Symbiotic relationships diagrammed
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Micropredator Parasite Parasitoid Predator strategies compared
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Ectoparasites are usually idiobiont, endoparasites koinobiont. Both strategies are found among parasitoidal wasps
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A basic foraging sequence for a predator, with some variations indicated
Magnetoreception, electroreception, and mechanoception
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Quantum Magnetoreception in Birds
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Effect of RF interference on Magnetoreception in Birds
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Platypus electrolocation
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Electroreception of Capacitative and Resistive Objects in Elephantfish (file)
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Electroreception of Capacitative and Resistive Objects in Glass knifefish
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Ampullae of Lorenzini electrophysiology
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Stargazer's paired electric organs
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Stargazer Astroscopus y-graecum electric organ site
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Gymnotus electric organ site
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Raja electric organ site
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Impedance matching in strongly electric fishes
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Sensory coding for Eigenmannia's jamming avoidance response
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Mormyromast electroreceptor in Mormyrid fishes
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Electrocytes evolved from skeletal muscle
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Lateral line works despite "noise" created by the fish itself
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Lateral line rate coding
Origin of life
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Stages of the origin of life
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NASA's astrobiology puzzle
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LUCA and its environment
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Nick Lane's early cell in a hydrothermal vent, powered by an external proton gradient
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Chemiosmotic coupling in a mitochondrion (redrawn)
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Inferring LUCA's genome
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Symbiogenesis with 2 mergers (redrawn, twice)
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Primordial life with early Eukaryote/Prokaryote split
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Spontaneous generation of seashells, according to Aristotle
- The Nick Lane scenario
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Iron-Sulphur catalysis
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Free energy in hydrothermal vent
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Growth and replication
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Selection for catalysis in random nucleotides
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Protocell away from hydrothermal vent splits hydrogen sulphide
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Ferredoxin's amino acid sequence using incomplete genetic code
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Anoxygenic photosynthesis
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Heterotrophy, oxygenic photosynthesis
not to mention the Template:Abiogenesis timeline ...
Sequence of diagrams
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Clap 1
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Clap 2
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Clap 3 ... wings clap together
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Fling 1
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Fling 2
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Fling 3 ... and fling apart
Phylogenetic trees
editI've also put together a lot of phylogenetic trees. Here's a small one.
Aristotelian biology models
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The soul in Aristotle's biology
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Aristotle's model of information processing
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Aristotle's model of inheritance
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Aristotle's metabolism as an open flow model
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Aristotle's model of temperature regulation
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Two of Aristotle's growth laws, on brood size and gestation
Maps
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Map of Mediterranean cuisines
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Map of anise spirits of the Mediterranean region
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Map of Operation Bertram
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Location map for the Tay Whale
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Map of Carl Michael Bellman's Stockholm overlaid on William Coxe's Travels, 1784
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Location map for The Jungle Book
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Centres of origin, based on Vavilov
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Ecstatic dance across the world
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Rabbit and myxomatosis introductions
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Yogini temples in India
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Beowulf tribes and locations
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Chiswick Mall sketch map
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Stockholm places seen in Fredman's Epistle 48
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Map for The Leopard
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Dwarf pufferfish distribution
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Neolithic agriculture
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English public school football codes
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Domestication and races of sorghum
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Names for Cagots around France
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Origins of modern apple
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Curry's origins
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How Anglo-Indian cuisine created curry
Maps of Russian military deception at Stalingrad, with both enemy and actual dispositions
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Operation Uranus Deception: German intelligence view on 18 November 1942, showing 6 to 8 Soviet armies (red). A=Army
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Operation Uranus Deception: Actual Soviet dispositions on 18 November 1942 (red), showing 10 Soviet armies. A=Army, TA=Tank Army. Subsequent attacks 19-26 November 1942 (gray arrows)
And similarly at Kursk
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German intelligence view of Belgorod front,
on the south of the Kursk salient,
2 August 1943
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Actual Red Army dispositions on Belgorod front,
showing concentrated forces ahead of 4th Panzer Army,
2 August 1943
Kilim
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Kilim slit weave
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Soumak weave
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Scorpion kilim motifs
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Monster's feet kilim motifs
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Tree of life kilim motif
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Ear ring kilim motif
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Wolf's mouth kilim motif
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Running water kilim motif
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Bird kilim motif
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Ram's horn kilim motif
This is just a sample: I drew quite a few more, look in the Kilim motifs article if you're curious.
Explanations
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M. C. Escher Paradox Diagram
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Tides overview
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Stephen Toulmin argumentation
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Transition from agriculture to developed economy
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In an isosceles triangle with a sharp apex, Malfatti's circles occupy only a modest fraction of the total area; other algorithms do much better.
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Alternative to Malfatti's circles in a sharp isosceles triangle: three circles stacked with a greedy algorithm occupy nearly twice as much space as Malfatti's circles.
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Hans Eysenck reasoning
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Influence of The Defence of Duffer's Drift
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Principle of resist dyeing, such as Batik
Tolkien's Middle-earth
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Arda in the Years of the Lamps
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Arda in the Years of the Trees
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Arda in the First Age
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Arda in the Second Age
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The Downfall of Númenor and the Changing of the World
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Valinor and Númenor
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Tolkien's Imagined Prehistory
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Fates of Elves and Men: Valinor serves as an Earthly Paradise.
Sketch maps
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Sketch map of Valinor
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Sketch map of Beleriand
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Sketch map of Mirkwood
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Gondor sketch map
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Sketch map of the Shire
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Sketch map of Middle-earth
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Bree-land
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Sketch map of Lothlórien
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Circles around Beorn's hall (Marjorie Burns)
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Oxford area for Farmer Giles of Ham
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Tolkien, like Shakespeare, spent his childhood in Warwickshire
Infographic maps
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Tolkien's moral geography of Middle-earth, explaining the case of the evil Haradrim
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Shippey's model of Tolkien's linguistic map of Middle-earth
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Geographic influences on Middle-earth
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Sketch map of hobbit origins
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Túrin Turambar locations in Beleriand
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Sindarin dialects of Beleriand
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Ithilien is Italy: subtle Classical allusions
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Bilbo's and Frodo's ancestry analysed
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Which Two Towers did Tolkien mean?
Analyses
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Brian Rosebury's analysis of The Lord of the Rings, as a combined Quest and Journey
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Patrick Grant's Jungian archetypes analysis of The Lord of the Rings
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The Rings of Power
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Concealed Christianity timeline
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Three Meanings of "Unfinished" in Unfinished Tales
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An additional layer to the previous diagram
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Tolkien and the Celtic: etymology of Brill and Chetwode
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Tolkien said Orthanc had meanings in Sindarin and Rohirric; but it is also a synonym and homonym in Old English: was it an error?
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The Lord of the Rings as a Framed Text
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Editorial Framing of The Lord of the Rings
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Deciding on A Mythology for England
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Origins of Tolkien's Mythology
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Editorial framing of The Monsters and The Critics
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Editorial framing of The History of Middle-earth
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Transmission of Evil in Middle-earth
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Alternative views of Evil in the world
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Morgoth, Satan, and the Fall
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Derivative literature vs Tolkien fan fiction
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Fates of the Silmarils
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Baggins vs Huggins
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Nazgûl and Ringwraith
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Shippey on Lúthien and Beren
Scripts
editMandalas
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4 Hobbits mandala,
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4 Elements mandala
of Gandalf's fight with the Balrog
Image maps and timeline
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Yoga
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The shatkarmas, preliminary purifications in hatha yoga
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Growth in number of asanas
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Working in Trikonasana (infographic)
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Different schools teach yoga with varying emphases
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Goldberg's Path of Modern Yoga
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Infographic on Yogini temples, showing design for communion with flying yoginis
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Khajuraho Yogini temple plan
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Four stages of Khecarī mudrā
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Early Bindu Model of Hatha Yoga
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Late Kundalini Model of Hatha Yoga
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Amaraugha and other early hatha yoga texts
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Yoga as exercise's origins
- ^ Shippey, Tom (2005) [1982]. The Road to Middle-Earth (Third ed.). Grafton (HarperCollins). pp. 388–398. ISBN 978-0-2611-0275-0.
- ^ Lee, Stuart D. (2020) A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien, Wiley: Philology 13-14 Christianity 446-460 Mythology 244-258 Old English 217-229 Modern literature 350-366 War 461-472 Invented languages 202-214 Art 487-472 Poetry 173-188
- ^ Shippey, Tom (2001). J.R.R. Tolkien: Author of the Century. HarperCollins. pp. 5–6. ISBN 978-0261-10401-3.