 Adaptations
of the woodcut illustrate its remarkable durability
and versatility
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purpose of documenting the remarkable durability
and versatility of the woodcut as visual
rhetoric. Do not reproduce these images for
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 This
strikingly beautiful version was colorized for a
poster by Roberta Weir, 1970. Used with
permission.
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The
Department
of Biochemistry at the University
of Minnesota advertised their molecular biology
programs with the illustration. Note how they
adapted the extra-cosmic portion of the woodcut to
resemble the organelles and cytoplasm of the
cell.
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StarDate
magazine (affiliated with the McDonald
Observatory of the University
of Texas) featured a colorized version of the
woodcut on the cover of their January/February 1996
issue, accompanied by the comment that "our 1996
Sky Almanac can lead to a full year of colorful
astronomical discoveries." They describe the
illustration as a "medieval woodcut colored by Tim
Jones."
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Suzanne
Rich changed the extra-cosmic portion of the
woodcut into an image of a computer-world to
accompany an article on astronomical computing in
the April 1996 issue of Sky
and Telescope (p. 82).
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Adam
McLean sells his
beautifully colorized version of the woodcut on
his website, The
Alchemical Web Bookshop. Used with
permission.
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This
half-colorized version was created by Robert J.
Nemiroff (Michigan
Tech) for NASA's Astronomy
Picture of the Day (APOD) website to mark
January
1st, 2000, as the onset of the millennial year,
"The
Millennium that Defines Universe" Used with
permission.
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A
cartoonist takes for granted readers' familiarity
with the woodcut, adapting it to portray the
unprecedented US economic expansion in early 2000:
"The Economics textbooks don't cover where we are
now." "Not that they ever did." Tales, Universal
Press Syndicate, The Buffalo News
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Recording
artist Jimmie
Spheeris used the woodcut as envelope
art in this letter to Andy Markley, postmarked
California, June 29, 1976. Used with
permission.
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Discover
Magazine, April 2001, page 16.
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 Reinhard
Selten and Gerd Gigerenzer, Bounded Rationality:
The Adaptive Toolbox (MIT Press, March
2001)
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