For more than 40 years, German gynecologist and legendary science writer Fritz Kahn (1888-1968) captured the imagination of an international audience with hundreds of wildly inventive illustrations and more than a dozen popular science books. The following illustrations, taken from the book Fritz Kahn—Man Machine, are but a small selection of Kahn's work.

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