History of science
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[edit] Organizations, societies and institutions
 Ole Worm's Cabinet of Curiosities (1655) |
 Académie des Sciences (1698) |
[edit] Instruments and laboratories
 Armillary sphere, ca. 1582 |
 Astrolabe, 18th century |
 Orrery |
 Burning lamp |
[edit] Portraits
 Plato and Aristotle (1509) |
 Ptolemy (medieval) |
 Vesalius (1543) |
 Copernicus (early 16th century) |
 Galileo (1636) |
 Johannes Kepler (1610) |
 René Descartes |
 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) |
 James D. Watson |
[edit] Frontispieces and title pages
 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) |
[edit] Science and religion
 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) |
.JPG) Detail from Education by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1890) |
[edit] By field
[edit] Astronomy
 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 |
[edit] Biology
 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 |
[edit] Chemistry and Alchemy
 Alchemist's Laboratory by Heinrich Khunrath (1595) |
 Santorio Santorio's device for measuring weight before and after eating (1614) |
 Die Alchemisten by Pietro Longhi (1757) |
 The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone by Joseph Wright of Derby (1771) |
 The Alchemist by William Fettes Douglas |
 Der Alchimist by Carl Spitzweg (1860) |
 Alchemist Sędziwój by Jan Matejko (1867) |
 Reconstruction of the Watson-Crick DNA model |
[edit] Earth sciences
 Shark's head illustration by Nicolas Steno |
 Biogeographical illustration by Alexander von Humboldt |
 Henry de la Beche watercolor of fossil life |
[edit] Mathematics
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[edit] Medicine
 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.)
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[edit] Physics
[edit] Social sciences
[edit] Technology
 John Harrison |
