Historical Figures in Science

Engravings of notable scientists from history, showcasing their likeness in classic attire, reflecting the era of their contributions to science.

ADAM SEDGWICK Geologist Date: 1785 - 1873

Olivier de Serres (1539-1619) French author and soil scientist whose Théâtre d'Agriculture was the accepted textbook of French agriculture in the 17th century. France. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Portraits et histoire des hommes utile by Societe Montyon et Franklin 1837

Heinrich Rose (1795-1864), German mineralogist and analytical chemist. Professor of chemistry at the University of Berlin from 1823. From James Sheridan Muspratt Chemistry (London, ca. 1860) . Copperplate engraving, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer

Johann Franz Encke (1791-1865) German astronomer; proved that comet of 1818 had already been observed in 1786,1795 and 1805; since called Encke's comet. Engraving

Samuel Morse (1791-1872) American Inventor & Artist Stock Montage, Inc.

Ami Boue, 16 March 1794 - 21 November 1881, geologist of French Huguenot origin / Ami Boue, 16. März 1794 - 21. November 1881, deutsch-österreichischer Geologe und Mediziner, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

Charles Lyell (1797-1875). British lawyer and geologist. Engraving. Universal History, 19th century. Colored.

Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein, 1780-1857, a German physician, explorer and zoologist, Berlin Geographical Society, historical engraving, circa 1869

Blaise Pascal, 17th century French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and theologian, 1821. Artist: Thomas Dale

Sears Cook Walker (1805-1953) American astronomer, mathematician and classicist, born at Wilmington, Massachusetts. Engraving 1896.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Physicist, Italian mathematician and astronomer. Portrait. Engraving. "Semanario Familiar Pintoresco", 1877.

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (1758 - 1840), German physician and astronomer.

Portrait of Roger Joseph Boscovich (1711-1787) was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the Republic of Ragusa. Old illustration from La Nature 1887

NEWTON, ISAAC. FISICO, MATEMATICO Y ASTROLOGO INGLES. 1642-1727. GRABADO 1691.

Oval portrait of Reverend Dr. Stephen Hales, FRS, natural philosopher, botanist, chemist and inventor, author of Vegetable Staticks, 1677-1761. Engraving by William Hopwood after a portrait by Thomas Hudson, RA. Garden landscape with his inventions using a bell jar and pneumatic trough for scientific experiments on plant physiology and transpiration in plants. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dr. Robert John Thorntons New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1800.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Physicist, Italian mathematician and astronomer. Portrait. Engraving. "Semanario Familiar Pintoresco", 1877.

James Bradley 1693-1762. English astronomer From the book 'Gallery of Portraits' published London 1833.

Charles Lyell (1797-1875). British lawyer and geologist. Engraving. Universal History, 19th century. Colored.

Portret van Frederick William Herschel, Hermann Hirsch Pinhas, 1805 - 1844 print paper steel engraving historical persons. astronomy (and cosmography)

Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) Italian physicist. On table are two of his inventions, the Voltaic pile (wet battery) on left, and electrophorus, an apparatus demonstrating electrostatic charge by induction. His name given to unit of electrical potential difference, Volt.

Charles Bonnet (1720-1793) with his Chain of Nature from Minerals to Man.

Michael Faraday (1791-1867) British physicist and chemist. Top left, reading when apprenticed to Riebau as a bookbinder; top right; experimenting. Bottom; giving Friday Evening Discourse at Royal Institution, London. Wood engraving, 1881

Eilhard Mitscherlich (1794-1863), German chemist and crystallographer who discovered the phenomenon of isomorphism in 1819. From James Sheridan Muspratt Chemistry (London, ca. 1860) . Copperplate engraving, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Galileo Galilei 1564-1642. Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist. From the book 'Gallery of Portraits' published London 1833.

Jons Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist, artist unknown, 19th century

Franz Edler von Hildenbrand 1789-1849, Austrian doctor and botanist, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated

Robert Short, who had a bladder-stone removed which was eight inches in circumference. Engraving, 1820.

Romagnosis, Gian Domenico.

Ambrogio Dr, Fusinieri , Dr, Ambrogio Fusinieri, Italian mathematician, Kirchmayr, Lithograph

FAUSTO ELHUYAR (1755-1833). Spanish chemist, and the joint discoverer of tungsten with his brother Juan José Elhuyar in 1783. ELHUYAR Y LUBICE FAUSTO.

James Young Simpson (1811-1870) Scottish obstetrician. Pioneer of the use of Chloroform as an anaesthetic. From an engraving published London, May 1870.

Etienne BEZOUT, 1730-83 French mathematician, engraving

Jean-Dominique Cassini (c1670-1756) Italian-born French astronomer. First director of the Paris Observatory. Copperplate engraving 1777.

Nicolaus Copernicus 1473-1543. Polish astronomer. From the book 'Gallery of Portraits' published London 1833.

Evangelista Torricelli (15 October 1608 to 25 October 1647) was an Italian physicist and mathematician, Historical, digitally enhanced reproduction of an original from the 19th century.

Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (1656-1708) French botanist and explorer, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. France. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Portraits et histoire des hommes utile by Societe Montyon et Franklin 1837

Albert de Haller 1708 to 1777 also Alberto Von Haller Swiss botanist Physiologist and Doctor, Physician, Doctor Engraved by W Holl, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662). French mathematician, physicist and philosopher. Colored engraving.

Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse, 1746 - 1818, French mathematician

Galileo Galilei born February 15, 1564 in Pisa, died January 8, 1642 in Arcetri near Florence, an Italian universal scholar, physicist, astrophysicist, mathematician, engineer, astronomer, philosopher and cosmologist, historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, record date not stated

Nevil Maskelyne 1732-1811, British astronomer. From the book Gallery of Portraits, published 1833, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Michel Eugene Chevreul (1786-1889) French chemist. Engraving 1889 at te time of his death at the age of 102.

Frederick Augustus Abel (1827-1902). English chemist and inventor. Explosives: (with James Dewar) invented cordite: New method for manufacturing gun-cotton. Abel at 20. Engraving published 1893.

Peter Anich, February 22, 1723 - September 1, 1766, a Tyrolean geodesist and cartographer / Peter Anich, 22. Februar 1723 - 1. September 1766, ein Tiroler Geodät und Kartograf, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

John Harrison (1693-1776). Inventor of the marine chronometer in 1757, (20th century). Artist: Thomas King.

Claude Bernard (1813-1878), French scientist and physiologist, discovered the digestive function of the pancreas and liver. He developed the concept of the 'internal environment,' that organisms maintain a balance of their physiological functions. Photo by Truchelut, ca. 1875.

James Bradley, 18th century English astronomer, (1836).Artist: E Scriven

James Curtis Booth (1810-1888) American chemist, born in Philadelphia. The first state geologist for Delaware. Smelter and refiner to the US Mint (1849-1888). Engraving from 'Scientific American' (New York, 9 June 1888).

Historical print, portrait of Johann Jakob Breitinger, 1701 - 1776, a Swiss scholar and author

Anton van Leeuwenhoek, maker of microscopes. 1632-1723.

MICHAEL FARADAY

Sir William Fergusson, 1st Baronet (1808-1877). Scottish surgeon. Colored engraving. By Carretero.

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

MIKOLAI KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS) Polish astronomer Date: 1473 - 1543

Christiaan Huyghens (1629-1695) Dutch physicist and astronomer. Made a pendulum clock, discovered the rings of Saturn, and proposed a wave theory of light. Engraving.

Franz Joseph Gall (1758 - 1828), German neuroanatomist and physiologist

Galileo Galilei, 1564, 1642, Italian philosopher, mathematician, physicist and astronomer

Portrait of the chemist Louis Lefèvre-Gineau, Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1823 print Paris paper historical persons

James Bradley 1693-1762, English astronomer. From the book Gallery of Portraits, 1833, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Sir Humphry Davy (1778-1829), British chemist, discovered several chemical elements including sodium, potassium, barium, magnesium, calcium, and iodine. 1830 engraving.

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) German astronomer. Wood engraving, Paris c1870

JOSEPH DE BEAUCHAMP French astronomer. Date: 1752 - 1801

Hans Sloane (1660-1753. English physician and naturalist. Founded Chelsea Physic Garden: Secretary to the Royal Society (1693-1713): Donated library of 50,000 books and 3,500 manuscripts to British Museum Engraving.

Portrait of the chemist Louis Jacques Thénard, Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1822 print Paris paper historical persons

Thomas Cavendish was an English explorer and a privateer. The double hemisphere map shows the route of his deliberate circumnavigation through the world's oceans (BSLOC_2020_1_99)

JOSE CELESTINO MUTIS (1732/1808) - SPANISH DOCTOR AND BOTANICAL SCIENTIST - DIRECTOR OF BOTANICAL EXPEDITION OF NUEVA GRANADA - PAINTING, 1887. Author: ANONYMOUS. Location: MEDICAL ACADEMY. MADRID. SPAIN. JOSE CELESTINO MUTIS (1732-1808).

Nicolaus Copernicus. Stipple engraving by Rosincester after I. A. Scharffen.

Galileo Galilei. Line engraving by J. Calendi after J. Sustermans.

David Rittenhouse (8 April 1732-26 June 1796) was an American astronomer and mathematician, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a historical original.

PAUL GERVAIS French naturalist Date: 1816 - 1879

Portrere Van Paolo Mascagni, Jean Denis North Sagel, 1805 - 1865 print paper. etching historical persons. physician, doctor

Otto von Guericke (1606-1686), German inventor, engineer and physicist, c1672. Portrait from his 'Experimenta Nova, ut vocant, Magdeburgica, de vacuo Spatio' ('New Magdeburgian Experiments, as they are called, relating to a Vacuum'), (Amsterdam, 1672), in which he published details of his invention of the air pump, 1650, and his experiments on the power of a vacuum. Engraving.

An engraving depicting Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694) an Italian biologist and physician. Dated 19th century

Portrait van Sigismund Friedrich Hermstaedt, Gottfried Arnold Lehman, 1808 print paper engraving historical persons. botany

Michel Eugene Chevreul (1786-1889). French chemist. Portrait. Engraving. "La Ilustracion Iberica", 1886.

Antonio Gimbernat y Arbós (1734-1816), surgeon and Spanish anatomist.

Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) Polish astronomer who in 1543 published De revolutionibus orbium coelestium in which he put forward proof of a heliocentric (sun-centred) universe. Copperplate engraving by de Bry, 1645.

Portrait of Copernicus in the Warsaw Astronomical Observatory Mikołaj Kopernik, from: Kłosy 1876, No. 593 unknown

Portrait van Pehr Wargentin, Gottlob August Lieb (Possibly), 1756 - 1819 print paper engraving historical persons. mathematics (+ portrait of scholar, scientist). astronomy (and cosmography) (+ portrait of scholar, scientist). historical persons

William Withering, MD, FRS, physician, geologist, chemist and botanist, Fellow of the Linnaean Society, 1741-1799. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Ridley after a portrait by Carl Fredrik von Breda from Dr. Robert John Thorntons New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1805.

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

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist. ""E pur si Muove"" (And yet it moves or It moves, nevertheless). Famous phrase he pronounced after abjuring the heliocentric view before the Holy Office. Portrait. Engraving by Rico. Later colouration. Cronica General de Espana, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Castilla-La Nueva, 1869.

An 1806 portrait of Humboldt by Friedrich Georg Weitsch. Friedrich von Humboldt (1769 1859) German naturalist and explorer, whose quantitative work on botanical geography was the foundation of the field of biogeography.

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

Pierre Paul Broca, 1824 - 1880, French physician, anatomist and anthropologist, digitally edited

Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) astronomer

Gall, Franz Josef .

(Christian Friedrich) Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843), German physician. Founded Homeopathy c1798. Engraving after a commemorative medal.

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.

Daniel Rutherford, MD, FLS, physician and botanist, Professor of Botany at the University of Edinburgh, 1749-1819. A distant view of Edinburgh. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by William Holl after a portrait by Sir Henry Raeburn from Dr. Robert John Thorntons New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1804.

DEMOCRITUS GREEK PHILOSOPHER 400 BC ADVANCED ATOMIC THEORY ENGRAVING FROM A BUST IN THE VATICAN

Gaspard Monge, Comte de Péluse, 1746 - 1818, French mathematician, elementary treatise on statics

Oval portrait of William Curtis, FLS, botanist and publisher, author of the Flora Londinensis and The Botanical Magazine., 1746-1799. Frontispiece to Flora Londinensis showing Curtis and other botanists collecting plant specimens. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving by William Evans from Dr. Robert John Thorntons New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1802.

Michael Faraday (1731-1867) English chemist and physicist. He was known for his pioneering experiments in electricity and magnetism. Many consider him the greatest experimentalist who ever lived. Painting by Thomas Phillips (1770-1845) 1842.

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

Bernardus Paludanus. Line engraving by H. Bary.

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

Observation of a lunar eclipse in the early 18th century, astronomer Isaac Newton, digitally restored reproduction of a collective image from c. 1900,...

Joseph Jerome Lefrancais de Lalande, French astronomer, 19th century. Artist: Unknown

Observation of a lunar eclipse in the early 18th century, astronomer Isaac Newton, digitally restored reproduction of a collective image from c. 1900, in the public domain, exact date unknown

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