Circulation Figures (Human)

Here—after my digression (posted 5 minutes ago) about AI-generated images of the human circulation—are some images from a book first published in 1964. Both come from ‘Principles of Pathology’ written and illustrated by Howard Carl Hopps. This is the only book I can think of that has two quite different illustrations for the same thing. This reflects the different contexts and ways in which Hopps is referring to the circulation in the text. This is a practice that might be more widely adopted. The structure and workings of the human body can be envisaged in numerous different ways at the same time. Diagrams and figures should be allowed to express this.

Again we see how the same system can be depicted differently by different illustrators/authors.