Historical Figures in Medicine

Engravings of notable historical figures in medicine and science, highlighting their contributions and legacy.

Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, FRS (1753 - 1814) American-born British physicist and inventor whose challenges to established physical theory were part of the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics. He served as lieutenant-colonel of the King's American Dragoons, part of the British Loyalist forces, during the American Revolutionary War.

Mikołaj Kopernik, Father of an Immortal Astronomer, from: Tygodnik Ilustrowany 1873, vol. XI, No. 269 Regulski, Aleksander Tadeusz (1839 1884), Tegazzo, Franciszek (1829 1879)

Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus (129 AD - c. 200/c. 216), Galen; Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Drawing 1840

John Hunter (1728-1793) Scottish anatomist, physiologist and surgeon who applied scientific method to medicine. Engraving after the portrait by Joshua Reynolds. From 'The Gallery of Portraits' by Charles Knight (Lonson, 1834).

Portrait of Nicholas Saunderson (1682-1739) a blind English scientist and mathematician. Dated 18th Century

Nicolaus Copernicus, 1473 - 1543, scientist, mathematician, astrologer, portrait, historical illustration, 1880

Erycius Puteanus

THOMAS MORSON London pharmacist, chemist and inventor Date: 1799 - 1874

GIOVANNI DOMENICO CASSINI later Jean-Dominique, French astronomer and first Director of the Paris Observatory, who discovered four of Saturn's moons Date: 1625 - 1712

James Young Simpson (1811-1870), Scottish doctor and pioneer in use of chloroform as anaesthetic

JOHANNES KEPLER German astronomer, with the tools of his trade Date: 1571 - 1630

Robert Boyle (1627-1691) Anglo-Irish chemist and physicist. Engraving.

FRANZ JOSEF GALL German physician who pioneered the 'science' of phrenology. Date: 1758 - 1828

Salomon de Caus, Mondecaus, de Caulx, de Caux, de Cauls, 1576, 6 June 1626, a French physicist and engineer, Historical, digital reproduction of a 19th century original

Portrait of Robert Schomburgk, Victorian ichthyologist, zoologist and diplomat. Steel engraving by Freeman from Robert Schomburgk's Fishes of Guiana, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ichthyology, Edinburgh, 1841.

Galileo Galilei, 15 February 1564, 8 January 1642, an Italian polymath, philosopher, mathematician, engineer, physicist, astronomer and cosmologist, H...

JOHN DALTON. PHYSICIST, NATURALIST AND CHEMIST (1766-1844).

Robert Hare (1781-1858), American chemist. Invented an oxyhydrogen blowpipe and a calorimeter. A convert to spiritualism, he published Spiritualisme wissenschaftlich demonstriert (1855) and Experimentelle Untersuchung der Spiritmanifestation (1855) ., digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, record date not stated

Edmond Halley, 1656, 1742, English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician and meteorologist

Charles Plumier (1646-1704) French friar, botanist and botanical explorer, was born at Marseilles. Appointed royal botanist by Louis XIV in 1693. Made expeditions to the West Indies and Central America. Gave the first accurate account of the source of the red dye cochineal which is an insect, not the plant on which it is found. Linnaeus named the genus Plumeria after him. From 'Histoire des Philosophes Modernes' by Alexandre Saverien. (Paris, 1762).

John Harrison (1693- 1776) was a self-educated English carpenter and clockmaker. He invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought after device for solving the problem of establishing the East-West position or longitude of a ship at sea, thus revolutionising and extending the possibility of safe long-distance sea travel in the Age of Sail. The problem was considered so important, that the British Parliament offered financial rewards of up to £20,000 (£2.75 million) under the 1714 Longitude Act.

Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist, c1830. Artist: William Home Lizars

Johann Joachim Winckelmann, 9 December 1717, 8 June 1768, German archaeologist, librarian, antiquarian and art writer of the Enlightenment

Johannes Kepler, Keppler, December 27, 1571 - November 15, 1630, a German astronomer and physicist, mathematician, natural philosopher / Johannes Kepler, Keppler, 27. Dezember 1571 - 15. November 1630, ein deutscher Astronom und Physiker, Mathematiker, Naturphilosoph, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Johannes Kepler oder Keppler, 1571, 1630, deutscher Philosoph, Mathematiker, Astronom, Astrologe, Optiker und Protestant

Portrait of the io. Aug. Noesselt

Andreas Vesalius (1514-1564) 16th-century anatomist, physician, and author of one of the most influential books on human anatomy, De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem, founder of modern human anatomy. Professor at the University of Padua, Imperial physician at the court of Emperor Charles V. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Portraits et histoire des hommes utile by Societe Montyon et Franklin 1837

Dr. Johann Carl Gehler, Christian School, 1774 - 1816 print Portrait of Johann Carl Glerer, German scientist in Leipzig. paper historical persons. medical research, branches of medicine

JUSTUS VON LIEBIG (1803-1873) GERMAN CHEMIST. Location: MUSEO WELLCOME DE HISTORIA DE LA MEDICINA. LONDON. ENGLAND.

Historical drawing from the 19th Century, portrait of Camillus Johann Mueller oder Johannes Molitor oder Regiomontanus, 1436 - 1476, a mathematician, astronomer and publisher in the late Middle Ages

Isaac Barrow, 1630-1677, an English Christian theologian and mathematician

John Barcla (10 December 1758) (21 August 1826), a Scottish comparative anatomist, non-university teacher of anatomy and director of the Highland Society of Scotland, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc (1580-1637) was a French astronomer, lawyer, botanist and scholar. France. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Portraits et histoire des hommes utile by Societe Montyon et Franklin 1837

Abbe JEAN CHAPPE French astronomer Date: 1722 - 1769

Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543, Polish astronomer. From the book Gallery of Portraits, published in 1833, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Galileo Galilei. Line engraving by P. Bettelini after T. Minardi after D. Cresti, il Passignano, 1624.

Urbain Jean Joseph Leverrier (1811-1877) French astronomer who calculated the position of planet Neptune in 1846. Calculations confirmed were shortly after by JG Galle at Berlin. Lithograph c1850.

Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) Italian botanist, naturalist and physician. Published illustrated books on fishes, birds and insects. 16th century copperplate engraving.

Face of a man with peculiar staining of the skin, caused by melanotic sarcomata

Rafael GUZMAN, 19th century Ecuadorian mineralogist (esp diamonds)

CLAUDE BERNARD French physiologist who made important medical discoveries

Kepler, Johannes (1571-1630) German mathematician and astronomer. Considered the founder of modern astronomy. Colored engraving.

Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Paracelsus. Stipple engraving by H. Pfenninger after N.

Hans Lippershey (d1619) Dutch optician credited with discovery of the telescope. Engraving after portrait by Handik Berkmans from Pierre Borel De Vero Telescopic Inventore 1655.

Portrait of scientist Bonaventura Cavalieri ..

Claude Louis, comte Berthollet, Claude Louis Berthollet, 1748 - 1822, a Savoyard-French chemist

Pierre Simon, Marquis de Laplace. Stipple engraving after J. C. Naigeon.

Wedgwood medallion of Isaac NEWTON (1642-1727) on blue Jaspar Ware -attributed to Hackwood. HALLEY'S COMET is in the background. Its appearance in 1682 created great interest. Halley considered it to be a periodic comet and, using Newton's theory of universal gravitation, calculated its return in Its reappearance as predicted confirmed Newton's laws.

Sir Isaac Newton. Reproduction of lithograph after W. Gandy, 1706.

Justus Freiherr von Liebig, 1803 - 1873, German chemist and scientist, digitally edited

Louis Agassiz (1807-1873), Swiss-born American naturalist and glaciologist, c1826 (1885). Artist: Unknown

Copernicus, Nicholas.

Carl Ritter, 1779-1859, considered one of the founders of scientific geography, Berlin Society for Geography, historical engraving, ca. 1869, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, coloured, exact date unknown

Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky. Date/Period: Ca. 1816. Painting. Oil on slate Oil on slate. Height: 340.11 mm (13.39 in); Width: 256.29 mm (10.09 in). Author: Benjamin West.

Henry Andrews (1744-1820) English astronomical calculator, schoolmaster, author of 'Moore's Almanack'. Born Frieston near Grantham Lincolnshire. Stipple engraving

Leopold, Freiherr von Buch, 1774 - 1853, geologist, portrait, historical illustration, 1880

SIR HUMPHRY DAVY chemist, inventor of the miner's safety lamp (1815) depicted here

Portrated van Poul de Løvenørn, Johann Gottlieb Baerenstecher, 1801 print paper historical persons. quadrant, sextant, octant (nautical instruments). globe

Vasco da Gama, Portuguese navigator and discoverer of the sea route around the Cape of Good Hope nac, historical illustration from 1881, India, Asia

Gelium, Giovanni Battista.

Gerhard Mercator, Gerard De Kremer, Gerardus Mercator or Gerhard Kraemer, 1512-1594, a mathematician, geographer, philosopher, theologian and cartographer, historical engraving, circa. 1870, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, coloured, exact date unknown

Portrait of James Hutton, 1726 - 1797, Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician, the Father of Modern Geology, title of his book Theory of the Earth, digitally edited

Bernhard Siegfried Albinus, (24 February 1697 - 9 September 1770) was a German anatomist and surgeon as well as author and editor of medical writings, resting his hand on a skull and holding a surgical instrument, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.

Heinrich Khunrath (c1560-1605) German chemist and alchemist born in Leipzig. 1725. From 'Icones Virorum ? ', Friedrich Roth-Scholtz, (Nuremberg, 1725).

Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse, 1746 1818, French mathematician, modern orthographic projection, quadrants in descriptive geometry Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse, 1746 1818, French mathematician, modern orthographic projection, quadrants in descriptive geometry, graphic by SharkD Copyright: xZoonar.com/Heinz-DieterxFalkensteinx 21660445

Portrait of the Ezechiel Meth

Joseph Jerome Lefrancais de Lalande, French astronomer, 19th century. Lalande (1732-1807) was professor of astronomy at the College de France for 46 years from 1760, and in 1768 he was appointed director of the Paris Observatory. Obverse of a commemorative medal.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756 - 1791, composer of classical music, First Viennese School, notesheet from Allegro and Andante, Fantasy in F minor for mechanical organ, KV 608, 1791, digitally edited

VOLTA, Alessandro (Como ,1745-1827). Italian physicist known especially for the development of the first electric cell in 1800.

Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist. Artist: Unknown

USSR - 1973: shows Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543 and Solar System, Polish astronomer, 500th birth anniversary of Copernicus USSR - CIRCA 1973: A stamp printed in USSR shows Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543 and Solar System, Polish astronomer, 500th birth anniversary of Copernicus, circa 1973 Copyright: xZoonar.com/OlgaxPopovax 5142652

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