Acknowledgments

Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1480 (detail)

Many images included on this website are acknowledged on the page where they appear. The following items appear on other pages but are acknowledged here.

Fine Art Images

Carol Gerten Fine Arts site:
I am grateful to Carol Gerten for providing many of the images of art included on this site. Some images have been modified in color balance white/black levels, and/or excerpted (especially for the thumbnails) to suit the particular needs of the page. Images from the CGFA site include the following:

Lawrence Alma-Tadema:
(1) "Antony and Cleopatra", 1883 (detail)
(2) "The Favorite Poet", 1888, oil on panel, Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight (detail, color adjusted)
Sandro Botticelli:
(1) "The Birth of Venus", 1480 (detail, color adjusted)
(2) "Venus and Mars", 1482-83, The National Gallery at London, England (detail)
Pascal-Adolphe-Jean Dagnan-Bouveret, "Hamlet and the Gravediggers", 1883 (detail)
Eugène Delacroix, "The Barque of Dante" c. 1822 (detail)
Sir Frank Dicksee [1853 - 1928], "Romeo and Juliet", date unknown (detail)
William Hogarth, "David Garrick as Richard III", 1745 (detail)
Lord Frederic Leighton:
(1) "Music Lesson", exhibited 1877, oil on canvas, Guildhall Art Gallery, London (detail, color adjusted)
(2) "Mother and Child (Cherries)", detail, exhibited 1865
(3) "The Reconciliation of the Montagues and Capulets Over the Dead Bodies of Romeo and Juliet", 1853-55 (detail, retouched)
William Morris, "Vision of the Holy Grail" 1890 (detail, image no longer available on the CGFA website)
Edvard Munch, "The Scream", 1893, oil, tempera and pastel on cardboard, National Gallery, Oslo (detail, color adjusted)
Sir Edward John Poynter, "Cave of the Storm Nymphs", 1903 (detail).
Rembrandt van Rijn, "Aristotle with a Bust of Homer", 1653, oil on canvas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York" (detail, color adjusted)
Diego Rivera, "The Maize Festival (La fiesta del maíz)", from the cycle "Political Vision of the Mexican People", 1923-24, fresco, Ministry of Education, Mexico City (detail, color adjusted)
Peter Paul Rubens, "Venus and Adonis", 1600s (detail)
John Singer Sargent: "Ellen Terry as Lady Macbeth", 1889 (detail)
John William Waterhouse, "Miranda- The Tempest", c. 1916 (details, color adjusted)
Benjamin West, "King Lear", 1788 (detail, adjusted)
Rogier van der Weyden, "Portrait of a Man Holding a Book", before 1437, (detail, color adjusted).

Art works obtained from other sites:
These have also been included as follows:

Richard Dadd, "Titania Sleeping", 1841 (detail), found at http://www.emory.edu/ENGLISH/classes/Shakespeare_Illustrated/Dadd.Titania.html
Hans Holbein the Younger, "King Henry VIII" (c. 1536), found at Tudor England Images (http://www.marileecody.com/henry8images.html)
Justus Sustermans, portrait of Galileo Galilei, 1636 (found at http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/PictDisplay/Galileo.html)
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), "Caesar Contemplating the Head of Pompey", date unknown to me (detail, color adjusted). [http://community-2.webtv.net/wrblw/bibart2/page2.html]
Thumbnail of Radiolarians, Ascidae, detail from drawing by Ernst Haeckel, Kunstformen der Natur 1899-1904, Tafel 85, found at http://caliban.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/~stueber/haeckel/kunstformen/natur.html

Clip Art, Photographs, and Other Graphics

Some clip art and photographs have been obtained from websites which are no longer in existence or for which I no longer have the hyperlink. The following lists sources of images where known.

The red dragon (drag30x.gif) on the opening page is modified from Sew Doll's Dragons (color adjusted, website no longer available); the green dragon on the Beowulf page (dragon.jpg) is from http://goireland.about.com/travel/goireland/library/blclp2.htm
The photo of Gaston Julia on the Julia Sets page (gjulia2.gif) came from http://homepages.force9.net/unity/fractals/index.html (site no longer valid)
The portrait of William Shakespeare (shakesp.jpg) comes from All Info-About UKClipart (resized & color adjusted, etc., URL=http://ukclipart.allinfo-about.co.uk/index.html)
The grouping of musical instruments on the Digital Audio CD page (digaudio_musinsts.gif) comes from Music Graphics Galore (www.intcon.net/~songbird/inst/insts03.gif)
Images of the Bismillah on the opening and Koran pages (bismillah3.gif and bismillah3_2_x.gif) have been adapted from www.geocities.com/jamaad00/bismillah3.gif and from the eMuslim site (www.emuslim.com, image apparently no longer available on that site).
The image of the Large Magellanic Cloud is excerpted from photo heic0411d.jpg on the website of the European Space Agency NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope taken by Eckhard Slawik 1 Jul 2004, described on this website as "copyright-free material".
The image of the Strait of Magellan is excerpted and modified from image ev25172_SSAmerica.A2003087.1835.500m.jpg on the NASA Visible Earth project, described as copyright-free. It was taken by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on the Terra satellite on March 28, 2003 .
The image of average global temperature changes was adapted from the PDF file dated Jan. 12, 2005 and found at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies website, www.giss.nasa.gov/data/update/gistemp/2004/Fig.1.pdf.
The image of projected climate change is from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a joint effort of the the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), found at www.ipcc.ch/present/graphics/2001syr/large/05.24.jpg.