Beautiful Scientific Illustration Silhouettes (1931)

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In my experience of paying attention to unusual found-art found in unusual places, I have paid particular attention to found-art in the sciences that have full lives out-of-context of their text. [See the series  Unintentional Absurdist.] And so while reading through an issue of Die Naturwissenschaften (1931)  for an article by Herman Weyl ("Geometrie und Physik") I found in its closing pages a review by Arnold Berliner of R.W. Pohl's Einfuhrung in die Physik--complete with these three fantastic silhouette illustrations.  They're simply beautiful things, exceptionally designed, simplistic but detailed and dramatic and way beyond what was necessary to illustrate the intended physical principle. It is a nice and unexpected artistic find.