Engraving Collection (#36)

Louis Daubenton, French naturalist
Louis-Jean-Marie Daubenton (1716-1800), French naturalist. Daubenton worked with Buffon on his grand treatise of natural history, providing anatomical descriptions of quadrupeds

Jacques Bernoulli, Swiss mathematician
Jacques Bernoulli (1654-1705), Swiss mathematician. Jacques, also known as Jacob, was the first of eight prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family

Jean Dumas, French chemist
Jean Dumas (1800-1884), French chemist. In 1830 Dumas challenged the views of Berzelius on chemical structure, proposing in its place his own type theory

Down House, Darwins home
Down House. Historical print of Down House (also known as Downe House) and part of its garden. It was the home of the British biologist, Charles Darwin

Jean Delambre, French astronomer
Jean Delambre (1749-1822), French astronomer. He published astronomical tables in 1792, predicting the orbits of the Sun, Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter and its satellites

Alexis Clairaut, French mathematician
Alexis Claude Clairaut (1713-1765), French mathematician. Clairaut was a child prodigy, writing on geometry at age twelve

Celsus, Roman philosopher
Celsus, 2nd century Roman philosopher, known mainly through his literary work The True Word, which was a polemic attack on Christianity

Auguste Comte, French philosopher
Auguste Comte (1798-1857), French philosopher. Comte, who is considered the father of modern sociology, coined the term sociology as part of his description of the new science

Erasmus Darwin, British doctor
Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802), British physician and grandfather of Charles Darwin. Erasmus Darwin studied medicine at the universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge, qualifying in 1755

Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647), Italian physicist, inventing the barometer. Torricelli worked on the dynamics of falling bodies with B. Castelli

Laurens Janszoon Coster, Dutch printer
Laurens Janszoon Coster (c.1370-c.1440), Dutch printer, with a printing clamp and printed pages. Coster was a citizen of Haarlem, in the Netherlands, and held the position of sexton (Koster)

John Wesley Hyatt, US inventor
John Wesley Hyatt (1837-1920), US inventor. Hyatt is best known for discovering a method to simplify the production of the plastic celluloid

Joseph Whitworth, British engineer
Joseph Whitworth (1803-1887), British engineer and inventor. Whitworth had a major impact on engineering, pioneering the use of precise measurement

John Hughlings Jackson, neurologist

Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher
Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679), English philosopher. Hobbes led a sheltered and long life, mostly as secretary and teacher to the family of Lord Cavendish, Earl of Devonshire

Pythagoras, Ancient Greek philosopher
Pythagoras (c.580-c.490 BC), Ancient Greek philosopher. Pythagoras is most famous for the theorem, a mathematical proof concerning triangles, that is named after him

Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, French engineer
Jean-Rodolphe Perronet (1708-1794), French engineer. Perronet is best known for the bridges that he designed and supervised the building of, including the Pont de la Concorde (completed 1791)

Jacob Winslow, Danish anatomist

William Hyde Wollaston, English chemist
William Hyde Wollaston (1766-1828), English chemist and discoverer of palladium and rhodium. In 1800, having given up a medical practice

Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright
Lope de Vega (1562-1635), Spanish playwright. Also known as Felix Lope de Vega Carpio. Lopes works, along with those of Cervantes, form a major part of Spanish literature

Guillaume Rondelet, French physician
Guillaume Rondelet (1507-1566), French physician, surrounded by fish. Rondelet taught medicine in Montpellier, France. He also produced a book on the natural history of fishes

Rhazes, Islamic scholar
Rhazes (c.860-930), Islamic Persian scholar, physician and alchemist, with an assistant, in his chemistry laboratory in Baghdad (now in Iraq). Rhazes is a Latinized form

Lyon Playfair, British chemist
Lyon Playfair (1818-1898), Scottish chemist and politician. Playfair abandoned his medical training to switch to chemistry. His career was extremely varied

A. Parmentier, French nutritional chemist
Antoine Augustin Parmentier (1737-1813), French nutritional chemist. Parmentier promoted the potato as a food in France and Europe

Bernard Palissy, French geologist
Bernard Palissy (1509-1589), French potter, geologist and naturalist, stoking his furnace with wooden furniture. Originally a glass-painter by trade

Jean Pecquet, French anatomist
Jean Pecquet (1622-1674), French anatomist. Pecquet initially studied classics, before graduating in medicine in 1652. He conducted various anatomical experiments

Roderick Murchison, Scottish geologist
Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), Scottish geologist and geographer. Following his military career he became a member of the London Geological Society, and, in 1855, its president

Marcello Malpighi, Italian biologist
Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Italian biologist. Malpighi was a physician by training, graduating at Bologna in 1653. Malpighis observations through his microscope were to revolutionise anatomy

Charles Lyell, British geologist
Charles Lyell (1797-1875), British geologist. Lyell was appointed secretary of the Geological Society in 1823. Between 1830-33 he published his three-volume masterpiece Principles of Geology

Bernard de Lacepede, French naturalist
Bernard-Germain-Etienne, comte de Lacepede (1756-1825), French naturalist. Lacepede continued the work started by Buffon, classifying oviparous quadripeds, reptiles, fish and whales

Rene-Just Hauy, French mineralogist
Rene-Just Hauy (1743-1822), French mineralogist and founder of crystallography. Hauy, an ordained Priest, became interested in crystallography in 1781 after noticing the straight lines

Sir William Herschel, British astronomer
Sir William Herschel (1738-1822), German-born British astronomer. Herschel constructed several telescopes and used them to extensively study the night sky

Jean d Arcet, French chemist
Jean Pierre Joseph d Arcet (1777-1844), French chemist. D Arcet made important contributions to the advancement of industrial processes for producing and improving metal alloys such as bronze

Joseph Marie Jacquard, French inventor
Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834), French inventor of weaving looms. Jacquard spent his inheritance whilst living as an (initially unsuccessful) inventor

David Hartley, English diplomat
David Hartley the Younger (1731-1813), English diplomat, Member of Parliament, and son of the philosopher David Hartley (1705-1757)

Thomas Hancock, British inventor
Thomas Hancock (1786-1865), British inventor. Hancock invented several methods of manufacturing for rubber. In 1820 he patented the use of rubber springs in clothing

Albrecht von Haller, Swiss scientist
Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), Swiss anatomist and physiologist. Von Haller studied medicine under the Dutch physician Boerhaave

Joseph Gay-Lussac, French chemist
Joseph Gay-Lussac (1778-1850), French chemist. In 1804 Gay-Lussac made balloon ascents to measure changes in magnetism and air composition with altitude

Galen lecturing on anatomy in Rome
Galen (c.129-200 AD), Ancient Greek physician and anatomist, lecturing on anatomy in Rome, in the Temple of Peace, using animal skeletons (right). Galen came to Rome in 162 AD

Hippocrates, Greek doctor and philosopher
Hippocrates (c. 460-370 BC), engraving of a marble bust of the Greek doctor and philosopher. He is considered to be the father of medicine, although little is actually known about him

Johann Gutenberg, German inventor
Johann Gutenberg (1398-1468), German inventor of the printing press. This statue of Gutenberg, carved by Bertel Thorwaldsen (1770-1844), is in Mainz, Germany, Gutenburgs birthplace

Galileo Galilei. Historical portrait of the Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). In 1610, Galileo was the first person to use a telescope for astronomical studies

Geber, Islamic alchemist
Geber (c.722-c.815), Islamic Spanish alchemist, teaching chemistry. Geber is a Latinised form. His full Arabic name is Jabir ibn Hayyan

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