Spiral Collection (page 3)

Andromeda Galaxy. Infrared image made by IRAS (Infrared Astronomical Satellite). A spiral galaxy, and the nearest neighbour to our own Milky Way

Grave-slab from Mycenae, Greece, 16h Century BC. From Shaft-Grave V, Chariot and spirals, held at National Museum Aireus

Detail of the stern of the Viking Oseburg ship, 9th century
Detail of the stern of the Oseburg ship, from the Oseburg ship burial, from the Viking Ships Museums collection in Oslo, 9th century

Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), Tentacles, 20th century. Artist: CM Dixon
Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), Tentacles, 20th century. A mollusc and the most studied of all octopus species. The octopus will eat almost anything it can catch

Fossils in Jurassic rocks from Chippenham, Wiltshire. Now in the British Museums collection

The Castlestrange Stone, 1st century
The La Tene style Castlestrange Stone, from County Roscommon in Ireland, apparently a pagan Celtic religious object, 1st century

Decorated slab across an entrance to a passage grave, 33rd century BC
Decorated slab across an entrance to a passage grave at Newgrange, County Meath, Ireland, 3200 BC

Spiral galaxy (M 51) in Canes Venatici, 1910. Photograph taken at Mount Wilson Observatory, California, USA. Known as the Whirlpool Galaxy

Archimedean Screws for raising water from one level to another, 1805
Archimedean Screws for raising water from one level to another. The thread could be either external (as in Fig. 3), or the more conventional internal spiral in Fig. 2

Greek relief, Agamemnon seated left with Talthybis and Epeios, c5th century BC. Fragment of a relief, maybe the armrest from the throne of a cult statue

Infra-red view of constellation of Orion. CREDIT: NASA

Spiral galaxy viewed edge on. Photograph. CREDIT: US Naval Observatory

Spiral Galaxy M81 in constallation of Ursa Minor. This galaxy about is 12 million light years from Earth. Photograph. CREDIT: NASA

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