User:Chiswick Chap/Diagrams

History of Physics

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  From Thales to Anaximander: a giant leap in 6th century BC Miletus
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  Aristotle's constitutions
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  Aristotle's laws of motion
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  Platonic and Aristotelian Forms
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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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  Alternatives to Darwinism
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  Modern synthesis (20th century)
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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

Drawings

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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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  Outline drawing of Ubysseya fretuma (Provora)
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  Jellyfish locomotion
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  Embioptera - foldable wings
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  Scorpion - venom squirting
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  "How the Turtle Gets its Shell"
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  Sexual reproduction: the barnacle uses its long penis to reach across to another individual nearby.
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  The bifocal eye of Anableps anableps can focus both above and below the waterline at the same time.
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  Grasshopper jumping mechanism

Labelled images

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  Daffodil flower parts, labelled
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  Turtle skeleton infographic
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  Leech anatomy in cross-section
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  Early and modern deuterostomes
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  Apple vs peapod anatomy
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  Strawberry vs peapod anatomy
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  Apple anatomy, flower and fruit compared
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  Tardigrade anhydrobiosis cycle
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  Titan arum life-cycle
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  Adaptations for myrmecophagy in mammals
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  Orchid reproductive anatomy
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  Crab vs lobster body plan

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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  Cladogram of primates, for monophyly, paraphyly, polyphyly
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  Tree secondary growth diagram (now on 17 wikis)
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  Catena of soils
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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 (or rather, Nephrozoan) body plan
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  Vertebrate body plan
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  Physiology of eusociality in fire ants
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  Fish habitat diversity
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  How to attract mosquitoes
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  Tardigrade anatomy
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  Flower fertilisation
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  Flower seed and fruit development
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  Group selection and cheating
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  Group selection and alarm signals

Sequence of diagrams

• Six stages of clap and fling flight
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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

I'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
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  Senses, perception, memory, dreams, action in Aristotle's biology

Analyses

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  Fates of Elves and Men: Valinor serves as an Earthly Paradise.
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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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  Celtic influences
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  Tolkien, like Shakespeare, spent his childhood in Warwickshire
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  Map of Mirkwood placed between the Carpathians and the Dnieper
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  Geographic influences on Middle-earth
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  Ithilien is Italy: subtle Classical allusions
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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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  Tolkien's legendarium
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  Concealed Christianity timeline
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  Three Meanings of "Unfinished" in Unfinished Tales
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  Old English and Modern English represent Rohirric and Westron
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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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  Etymology of 'Glamdring'
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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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  Company of the Ring
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  Nazgûl and Ringwraith
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  Shippey on Lúthien and Beren

Scripts

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  "Cirth" in Cirth
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  "Sarati" in Sarati
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  "Tengwar" in Tengwar
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  Labelled Tengwar table

Mandalas

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  4 Rings mandala,
  with the 4 classical elements
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  4 Hobbits mandala,
  as the 4 cognitive functions
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  4 Elements mandala
  of Gandalf's fight with the Balrog
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  4 Elements mandala
  of Fëanor's creation of the Silmarils

Image maps and timeline