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Men of opposing social classes in a game of boules; illustrating the faculty of weight and resistance in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
Bruyères, Hippolyte.Date: [1847]Reference: 27623i
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Women representing architecture and astronomy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1803, after R. Corbould.
Richard CorbouldDate: 22 October 1803Reference: 25669i
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An eye in a star, the spokes of which divide the spectrum of colours; putti hold a prism, a telescope, a rod refracted in water, and a camera obscura; representing optics. Engraving by J. Chapman, 1820, after A.D. Macquin.
Ange MacquinDate: January 1820Reference: 25681i
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Scientific instruments and attributes of philosophy: gyroscopes, telescope, pestle and mortar, cosmological manuals, natural history specimens etc.. Lithograph by J-B-J. Jorand, 1835.
Jorand, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph, 1788-1850.Date: 1835Reference: 25985i
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Three fairies in a garden looking at the plants; representing botany. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman after R. Corbould.
Richard CorbouldReference: 25670i
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A female figure resting her arm on a globe; representing geography. Stipple engraving.
Reference: 25967i
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Jefferson's shadow : the story of his science / Keith Thomson.
Keith Stewart ThomsonDate: [2012], ©2012
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A man conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic, in the foreground, in the background a female figure representing the world observes a man of the new school of chemistry who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle: a representation of the historical transition between alchemy and chemistry. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.
Richard CorbouldDate: 27 July 1805Reference: 25676i
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An old man rests his head on his hand; cherubs play in a room filled with mechanical instruments; representing mechanical philosophy (or 18th century physics). Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1816.
Date: 13 April 1816Reference: 25677i
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A man in the foreground conducts an alchemical experiment with an alembic; in the background a female figure representing the world looks at a chemist, who prepares an oxygen experiment with a glass jar and a candle; representing the historical transition from alchemy to chemistry. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1805, after R. Corbould.
Richard CorbouldDate: 27 July 1805Reference: 37371i
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The era of experiments and the age of wonder : scientific expansion from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries : proceedings of the symposium in honor of the reopening of the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, and the Smithsonian Libraries' Resident Scholar Program / edited by Lilla Vekerdy.
Date: 2015
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Materials of the mind : phrenology, race, and the global history of science, 1815-1920 / James Poskett.
Poskett, JamesDate: [2019]
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Global scientific practice in an age of revolutions, 1750-1850 / edited by Patrick Manning & Daniel Rood.
Date: [2016]
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Classical probability in the Enlightenment / Lorraine Daston.
Lorraine DastonDate: c1988
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Hygieia, goddess of health, in a scientific cabinet. Coloured pen and ink drawing by O. Cramer, 1837.
Cramer, Ottmar.Date: 1837Reference: 26068i
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A goddess sits among a crowd of mythological figures with musical instruments and weapons; representing mineralogy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1817.
Date: 1817Reference: 25680i
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Elements of phrenology, physiognomy and palmistry, with diagrams of heads and hands, and portraits of historical figures. Colour lithograph, 1866.
Date: [1866]Reference: 28593i
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Adolphe Quetelet, social physics and the average men of science, 1796-1874 / Kevin Donnelly.
Donnelly, KevinDate: [2015]

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Men of opposing social classes in a game of boules; illustrating the faculty of weight and resistance in phrenology. Steel engraving by A. Portier, 1847, after H. Bruyères.

Women representing architecture and astronomy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1803, after R. Corbould.

An eye in a star, the spokes of which divide the spectrum of colours; putti hold a prism, a telescope, a rod refracted in water, and a camera obscura; representing optics. Engraving by J. Chapman, 1820, after A.D. Macquin.

Scientific instruments and attributes of philosophy: gyroscopes, telescope, pestle and mortar, cosmological manuals, natural history specimens etc.. Lithograph by J-B-J. Jorand, 1835.

Three fairies in a garden looking at the plants; representing botany. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman after R. Corbould.

A female figure resting her arm on a globe; representing geography. Stipple engraving.

Jefferson's shadow : the story of his science / Keith Thomson.

An old man rests his head on his hand; cherubs play in a room filled with mechanical instruments; representing mechanical philosophy (or 18th century physics). Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1816.

Materials of the mind : phrenology, race, and the global history of science, 1815-1920 / James Poskett.

Global scientific practice in an age of revolutions, 1750-1850 / edited by Patrick Manning & Daniel Rood.

Classical probability in the Enlightenment / Lorraine Daston.

Hygieia, goddess of health, in a scientific cabinet. Coloured pen and ink drawing by O. Cramer, 1837.

A goddess sits among a crowd of mythological figures with musical instruments and weapons; representing mineralogy. Coloured stipple engraving by J. Chapman, 1817.

Elements of phrenology, physiognomy and palmistry, with diagrams of heads and hands, and portraits of historical figures. Colour lithograph, 1866.

Adolphe Quetelet, social physics and the average men of science, 1796-1874 / Kevin Donnelly.