Mathematics Collection (#53)

Mathematical diagram by Niccolo Tartaglia. 16th Century mathematical diagram from La noua scientia by the Italian mathematician Niccolo Tartaglia (1550)

Searching, conceptual artwork

John Dee, British mathematician
John Dee (1527-1608). 19th Century artwork of the British mathematician, astronomer, astrologer and occultist John Dee. Dee was an expert in geometry and trigonometry

Mathematical compasses, 1624 diagram
Mathematical compasses. 17th Century diagram showing the use of mathematical proportional compasses. Published in Usage du compas de proportion by Denis Henrion (1624)

Niccolo Tartaglia, Italian mathematician
Niccolo Tartaglia (1499-1557). 1546 woodcut portrait of the Italian mathematician Niccolo Tartaglia. Tartaglias greatest mathematical achievement was the solution to cubic equations

La noua scientia de Niccolo Tartaglia. 16th Century woodcut illustration of various figures, symbolising various disciplines (e.g)

Lord Kelvin, British physicist
Lord Kelvin (1824-1907), British physicist and mathematician. Born William Thomson, he was co-discover in 1852 of the Joule-Thomson effect

Harmonograph images, 19th century

Eugene Catalan, French mathematician

Tartaglias artillery book, 1550 edition
Tartaglias artillery book. Frontispiece to the 1550 second edition of Nova Scientia (New Knowledge, or New Science) by the Italian mathematician and engineer Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (1499-1557)

Von Brauns Mars Project, 1952
This classic on space travel was first published in 1953, when interplanetary space flight was considered science fiction by most of those who considered it at all

Da Vincis notebook. Late 19th Century reproduction of a page from a notebook written by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Published circa 1894-1904

Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist
Andre-Marie Ampere (1775-1836), French physicist and pioneer of electrodynamics. Ampere also worked as a mathematician and chemist. He was elected to the French Academy of Sciences in 1814

17th Century calculator, artwork
17th Century calculator. Historical artwork showing the internal mechanism of a 17th Century mechanical device used for performing mathematical multiplications. Published in 1673

Franklins magic circle of circles
Magic circle of circles. Figure derived by Benjamin Franklin containing the numbers 12 to 75 inclusive on a set of concentric circular spaces across eight radii

Pythagoras (c. 580-500 BC)
Pythagoras founded a secretive, mystic cult which tried to describe the universe in terms of numbers. He found that there is no whole fraction or rational number that is the square root of 2

Euclid (c. 325 BC-c. 265 BC), ancient Greek mathematician. Euclid taught mathematics at Alexandria, Egypt, but little more is known about his life

Petrus Van Musschenbroek (1692 - 1761)
PETRUS VAN MUSSCHENBROEK Petrus Van Musschenbroek, Dutch mathematician and physicist (Leiden, 1692 - 1761). Inventor of the Leyden bottle, the first electric capacitor

Sofia(Sofya) Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891), Russian mathematician. Kovalevskaya was the first female member of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences

Johannes Kepler monument, artwork
Johannes Kepler monument. Artwork of the monument and statue to the German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), erected in his birthplace of Weil der Stadt, Germany

Digital knowledge, conceptual image
MODEL RELEASED. Digital knowledge, conceptual image. Human hand reaching into a stream of numbers, representing a search for knowledge in the digital information age

Plastic items. Selection of common plastic items, including a ruler and letter stencils

Pyramid C009 / 7026
Pyramid, with its glowing tip circled. The pyramid shape has had many mysterious beliefs associated with it, and is famously found in the architecture of Ancient Egypt where they were built as tombs

Mathematics symbols. Array of basic mathematics symbols formed from metal construction set parts

Key to science, conceptual image
Key to science. Conceptual image of a key, representing research and theories that unlock the mysteries of science

Decision paths, conceptual image
Decision paths. Conceptual image of a woman walking in a park along a path that forks into two, and then branches further. This represents the choices made when making a series of decisions

Impossible figure, artwork
Impossible figure. Computer artwork of a mug on a piece of paper, both with impossible figures drawn on them. Impossible figures are objects that can be drawn but not created

Men playing Go, artwork
Two Chinese men playing Go. Image from circa 1870-1890

Scientific equipment, historical artwork
Scientific equipment. Historical artwork of a range of equipment used for scientific measurements and drawings. At centre left is a hydrostatic balance

Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543)
Nicolaus Copernicus Polish astronomer who began the revolution that overthrew more than 1000 years of astronomical thought

Maya calendar, diagram
Maya calendar. Diagram showing how one particular Maya calendar was based on a cyclic combination of 13 numbers (smaller wheel) and twenty day symbols (larger wheel)

Joseph Bertrand, French mathematician
Joseph Louis Francois Bertrand (1822-1900), French mathematician. Bertrand was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and its secretary for many years

Charles Hutton (1737-1823), English mathematician, working with a quill pen, ink pot, paper and books. Hutton was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1774

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus (February 19, 1473 Ôé¼" May 24, 1543) was the first astronomer to formulate a scientifically-based heliocentric cosmology that displaced the Earth from the center of

Samuel Horsley, English scientist
Samuel Horsley (1733-1806), English churchman and scientist. Horsley was born in Newington (now part of London) and educated at Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Trigonometry calculator, 17th century
Trigonometry calculator. Part of a device designed for trigonometric calculations. This object was described in Mathematici tractatus duo nuper germanice edited by Johannes Faulhaber

Claudius Ptolemaeus, Greek astronomer
Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμα-ος Klaudios Ptolemaios; (c. AD 90 - c. 168), known in English as Ptolemy, was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek

Thales of Miletus, Greek philosopher
Thales of Miletus (c.624 BCE- c.546 BCE), Greek philosopher and one of the Seven Sages of Greece. Thales lived at Miletus, an Ionian Greek city in what is now Turkey

Table of mathematical functions
Mathematical functions. A table comparing various simple curves from calculus with elliptical and hyperbolic curves from the analysis of conic sections

Sir Isaac Newton ( 1643-1724), English physicist. Newton was born at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire and was educated at Grantham and at Trinity College Cambridge

Trigonometry in distance measurement
Practical trigonometry. 17th century woodcut illustration showing the use of a cross-staff and quadrant for measuring distances

Monument to Pythagoras of Samos, in the harbour at Pythagorio, Samos, Greece. Pythagoras of Samos (born between 580 and 572 BC, died between 500 and 490 BC)

Johannes Kepler monument, Germany
Monument to the German astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630). Kepler lived and worked as a mathematics teacher in Graz, Austria between 1594 and 1600

Marquis de Condorcets last meal, artwork. French politician, mathematician and philosopher Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet

Johannes Kepler, German astronomer
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German astronomer and mathematician. Kepler lived and worked as a mathematics teacher in Graz, Austria between 1594 and 1600

Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz (1646-1716), German philosopher and mathematician. Leibnitz has been called the Aristotle of the 17th century due to his interest in all branches of knowledge

Die, artwork
Die, computer artwork

Inca quipu counting device, artwork
Inca quipu counting device. Artwork of part of an Inca quipu (also spelt khipu). This counting device was used by the Inca people of South America in the 15th and 16th centuries

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