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Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.

The eyes of a man; expressing, according to Lavater, a character upon which "you can easily impose, unless his imagination be heated by his uncommon vivacity". Drawing, c. 1794.

The pleasures of imagination. A poem / In three books.

A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria") being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.

A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria"), being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.

An artist painting a woman with a hand mirror and the devil; representing the faculty of the imagination. Engraving, 16--.

The profile of an imaginative man in a state of fear (left), and a woman afraid (right). Drawing, c. 1789.

Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de imaginatione morborum causa ac remedio : quam ... pro gradu doctoratus ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Oswaldus Hunter ... Ad diem 24 Junii.

Visualised numerals / by Francis Galton.

Image and reality : Kekulé, Kopp, and the scientific imagination / Alan J. Rocke.

The analysis of fantasy : the thematic apperception technique in the study of personality / William E. Henry.

La filosofia di Gaston Bachelard tra scienza e immaginazione / Arturo Deregibus.

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Dissertatio medica, inauguralis, de imaginatione morborum causa ac remedio : quam ... pro gradu doctoratus ... / eruditorum examini subjicit Oswaldus Hunter ... Ad diem 24 Junii.

Visualised numerals / by Francis Galton.

Image and reality : Kekulé, Kopp, and the scientific imagination / Alan J. Rocke.

The analysis of fantasy : the thematic apperception technique in the study of personality / William E. Henry.

La filosofia di Gaston Bachelard tra scienza e immaginazione / Arturo Deregibus.