Part Three, Illustration One:

They found a tall bearded man sitting at a desk in a large room filled
with glass cases, in which were human bodies.

from Chapter XXII

         art © by Paul Orban


     This is the scene in Chapter XXII where Professor Lavoisseur, the "invisible chess player," is finally found by Gosseyn and Thorson, hiding in the Semantic Institute surrounded by duplicate bodies in stasis.