18 results filtered with: Science - History - 19th century

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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- Books
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- Books
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- Books
Materials of the mind : phrenology, race, and the global history of science, 1815-1920 / James Poskett.
Poskett, JamesDate: [2019]- Books
Global scientific practice in an age of revolutions, 1750-1850 / edited by Patrick Manning & Daniel Rood.
Date: [2016]- E-books
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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- Books
Adolphe Quetelet, social physics and the average men of science, 1796-1874 / Kevin Donnelly.
Donnelly, KevinDate: [2015]