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Organizations, societies and institutions[edit]
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Ole Worm's Cabinet of Curiosities (1655) -
Académie des Sciences (1698)
Instruments and laboratories[edit]
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Armillary sphere, ca. 1582 -
Astrolabe, 18th century -
Orrery -
Burning lamp -
Montgolfier -
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Edison labs -
Portraits[edit]
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Ptolemy (medieval) -
Vesalius (1543) -
Copernicus (early 16th century) -
Galilei (1636) -
Johannes Kepler (1610) -
René Descartes -
Robert Boyle (1689) -
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1700) -
Isaac Newton (1689) -
Leonhard Euler -
Carolus Linnaeus (1775) -
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon -
Pierre-Simon Laplace -
Alexander von Humboldt (1806) -
Charles Lyell -
Michael Faraday -
Charles Darwin (1868) -
Louis Pasteur (1885) -
William Thomson, Lord Kelvin -
James Clerk Maxwell -
Niels Bohr -
Thomas Hunt Morgan (1891) -
Albert Einstein (1947)
Frontispieces and title pages[edit]
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De corporis humani fabrica by Vesalius (1543) -
De revolutionibus by Copernicus (1543) -
Instauratio magna by Bacon (1620) -
Tabulae Rudolphinae by Kepler (1627) -
Dialogo by Galileo (1632) -
Discours de la Methode by Descartes (1637) -
Historia Plantarum by Theophrastus (1644) -
Principia Mathematica by Newton (1686) -
Opticks by Newton (1704) -
Elémens de la philosophie de Neuton by Voltaire (1738) -
Encyclopedie of Diderot (1751) -
Systema Naturae by Linnaeus (10th ed., 1758) -
The Temple of Nature by Erasmus Darwin (1803) -
Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859) -
Man's Place in Nature by Huxley (1863) -
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Science and religion[edit]
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Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition by Cristiano Banti (1857) -
Galileo before the Holy Office by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury -
Philosophy and Christian Art by Daniel Huntington (1868) -
Detail from Education by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1890)
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By field[edit]
Astronomy[edit]
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Sir William Herschel -
Caroline Herschel -
Maria Mitchell -
Diagrams from Theorice Novae Planetarum by George Puerbach -
Astronomers Studying an Eclipse by Antoine Caron (1571) -
Diagram from Mysterium Cosmographicum by Johannes Kepler (1596) -
A priest-astronomer in the Chinese tradition by Ferdinand Verbiest (1675) -
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery by Joseph Wright of Derby (ca. 1766) -
The "Flammarion Woodcut" (1888) -
L'Astronomie tapestry
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Biology[edit]
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Detail from De arte venandi cum avibus, late 13th century -
Illustration of cork from Robert Hooke's Micrographia -
Sketch of Darwin's first evolutionary tree -
Illustration of chromosomes crossing over by Thomas Hunt Morgan -
specimens
Chemistry and Alchemy[edit]
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Hieronymus Brunschwig Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis (Strassburg, 1512) -
Alchemist's Laboratory by Heinrich Khunrath (1595) -
Santorio Santorio's device for measuring weight before and after eating (1614) -
Alchemist Filling Wet Drug Jars, 17th C. -
Gli alchimisti by Pietro Longhi (1757) -
The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone by Joseph Wright of Derby (1771) -
Justus van Bentum, The Explosion in the Alchemist’s Laboratory, 17/18th C. -
Franz Christoph Janneck, The Medical Alchemist, !8th C. -
The Alchemist by William Fettes Douglas -
Der Alchimist by Carl Spitzweg (1860) -
Alchemist Sędziwój by Jan Matejko (1867) -
Thomas Wijck, Alchemist in His Study with a Woman Making Lace, 17th C. -
Reconstruction of the Watson-Crick DNA model -
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Earth sciences[edit]
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Shark's head illustration by Nicolas Steno -
Biogeographical illustration by Alexander von Humboldt -
Henry de la Beche watercolor of fossil life
Mathematics[edit]
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Mary Fairfax, Mrs William Somerville (1834)
Medicine[edit]
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Paracelsus -
Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon, photo of bust in marketplace of birth town -
Rembrandt: Anatomie des Dr. Tulp -
Deutsch: Sympathische Entsprechungen zwischen Pflanzen und Tieren (Signaturen). Holzschnitt nach Auffassung Giambattista della Portas (16. Jh.)
Physics[edit]
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Madame Du Châtelet at her desk, by De La Tour, 18th century -
Marie Curie (born Maria Salomea Skłodowska), Nobel Prize, (1911) -
Lise Meitner (1946)
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Social sciences[edit]
Technology[edit]
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John Harrison -
Ada Lovelace, by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, 1836 -
Charles Babbage, by Samuel Lawrence, 1845
