19th Century Scientific Illustrations

Engravings depicting historical scientific practices, including diamond cutting, experiments, and exploration, in detailed black and white.

A 19th century photographer in his workshop, engaged in retouching his handiwork Date: 1891
A 19th century photographer in his workshop, engaged in retouching his handiwork Date: 1891
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A moral dilemma. Satire on the ethics of Louis Pasteur's experiments on animals. Date: 1889
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ROYAL INSTITUTION, SIR RODERICK MURCHISON'S LECTURE ON THE DISTRIBUTION OF GOLD ORE
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Adam Walker, a natural philosopher, performing scientific experiments. Coloured etching after J. Gillray, 1796.
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An engraving depicting a meeting of the Geological Section of the British Association in the Convocation House, Oxford. Dated 19th century
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Sir Roderick Murchison lectures on geology (the distribution of gold ore) at the Royal Institution in London. Date: 1850
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Artist's impression of execution by electric chair, prepared after experiments on the practicability of electrocution as method of execution. From 'Scientific American' New York, 30 June 1888. Westinghouse AC system. First execution was carried out at Auburn Prison, New York, 6 August 1890. Engraving
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Women examining silk moth eggs and putting in boxes for hatching into caterpillars (silkworms). From 'The Universal Magazine', London, 1748
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Georgius Agricola (1494-1555). German scientist. Known as "the father of mineralogy". Engraving belonging to his work De Re Metallica. Basel 1564. Colored.
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Penicillin Window - The penicillin window commemorating Alexander Fleming's discovery of the drug. Final touches are still to be done.A stained glass window will shortly be erected in St. James's Church, Sussex Gardens, London, Commemorating Sir Alexander Fleming's discovery of Penicillin. His laboratory at St.Mary's Hospital, Paddington, will be shown in the window. The work is being executed by Mr. Arthur Edward Buss, 47-year-old chief designer and draghtsman of a shoreditch stained glass firm. October 08, 1952. (Photo by Paul Popper, Paul Popper Ltd.).
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Engraving by Valentine Green depicting a philosopher demonstrating an experiment on an air pump (vacuum pump) in 1769, illustrating a scientific experiment.
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Guglielmo Marconi testing the wireless telegraphy across the English Channel. Illustration by Achille Beltrame on the Italian newspaper 'La Domenica del Corriere', April 22, 1899
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The english poet John Milton (1608-1674) visiting the italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), prisoner by the Inquisition. Colored engraving.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt was a Prussian geographer, naturalist, and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835). Humboldt's quantitative work on botanical geography laid the foundation for the field of biogeography. Between 1799 and 1804, Humboldt travelled extensively in Latin America, exploring and describing it for the first time from a modern scientific point of view. His description of the journey was written up and published in an enormous set of volumes over 21 years. He was one of the first to propose that the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean were once joined (South America and Africa in particular). Later, his five-volume work, Kosmos (1845), attempted to unify the various branches of scientific knowledge. Humboldt supported and worked with other scientists, including Joseph-Louis Gay-Lussac, Justus von Liebig, Louis Agassiz, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Georg von Neumayer, and most
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A philosopher giving a lecture on the Orrery, after Joseph Wright of Derby by John Boydell, 1719-1804, engraver
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Eskimo Disco Island, vintage engraving. Eskimo Disco Island, vintage engraved illustration. Journal des Voyage, Travel Journal, 1880-81. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10657234
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A doctor examining a man's tongue in a country tavern. Etching by H. Smith, 1858.
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An illustration of parallax showing the apparent displacement of the finger when viewed with first one eye and then the other, due to the different position from which it is observed. Dated 19th century
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Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922). Scottish engineer and inventor. Portrait. Watercolor by the Spanish illustrator Francisco Fonollosa (late 20th century).
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'M Pasteur's Experiments in Paris for the cure of Hydrophobia - The Doctor and some of his Patients', 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33. January to June, 1886".
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Engraving depicting an indigenous Indian Fire Drill. Dated 19th Century
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PASTEUR, Louis (1822-1895) French chemist and bacteriologist. Vaccination of sheep against anthrax. Agerville (France), 1884. Engraving.
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Henry Hill Hickman performing experiments on suspended animation. Watercolour and gouache by Richard Tennant Cooper, ca. 1912.
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In the sailor's house in Kiel, men study the Earth Globis, 1890, Germany, illustration, reproduction from a model from the 19th century. Authentic, file restored for optimal use, exact date of submission unknown, Historical, a group of men study a large globe together
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Illustration from Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy depicting Consummation of The Magnum Opus, by J. August Knapp, 1928
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Using a Bell telephone, here with a separate transmitter and receiver. Thomas Edison, dated 1878
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Vignette inspired by the Granger movement, depicts a doctor with a scale and drugs. The title is a variation on the movement's motto, 'I Pay for All.' The Grange was an organization composed mostly of Midwestern farmers, who united to combat the monopolistic practices of the railroads and grain elevators. Dated 1875
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RUSSIA - 2009: shows Dmitri Mendeleev 1834-1907, celebrate the 175th anniversary of Mendeleev s birth RUSSIA - CIRCA 2009: A stamp printed in Russia shows Dmitri Mendeleev 1834-1907, celebrate the 175th anniversary of Mendeleev s birth, circa 2009 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 4708413