Historical Scientific Illustrations

19th-century engravings featuring historical figures in scientific settings, showcasing early laboratory equipment and practices.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN American statesman, scientist and philosopher in his physics lab at Philadelphia. Date: 1706 - 1790
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN American statesman, scientist and philosopher in his physics lab at Philadelphia. Date: 1706 - 1790
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A philosopher giving a lecture on the Orrery, after Joseph Wright of Derby, 1749
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Engraving depicting Nicolas Camille Flammarion ascending in a balloon. Nicolas Camille Flammarion (1842-1925) a French astronomer and author. Dated 19th Century
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Three skeletal figures mixing drugs in a pharmacy. Lithograph by L. Crusius, 1900.
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Vibration, an illustration from Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, an encyclopedia from 1897
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Louis Pasteur (1822-1895). French chemist and bacteriologist. Vaccination of sheep against anthrax. Agerville, France, 1884. Engraving.
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Description of the Schools of Surgery; Description des Ecoles de Chirurgie. Jacques Gondoin (1737-1818). Engraving. 1780. 636 x 464mm
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On the place of the Observatory wandering singers, vintage engraving. On the place of the Observatory wandering singers, vintage engraved illustration. Paris - Auguste VITU 1890. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10648335
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LA PIPE DUNHILL SEM (Georges Goursat, said, 1863-1934). "The Dunhill Pipe". Color photomechanical process.
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SCENE ROYAL INSTITUTION, / Dedicated // For the Advancement of Science [but not with permission to the British Association,
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Bacteriological laboratory, France, 1890s. Chromolithograph c1900.
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Charles Darwin (1809-82) English naturalist. Evolution by Natural Selection. Cartoon of 1874. Reaction to views put forward in 'The Descent of Man'
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Faraday's demonstration (1832) that magnetism produces an electrical current. A bar-magnet is passed into the hollow centre of a bobbin wound with wire, and the current registered on the galvanometer (right). From 0. H. Pepper Cyclopaedic Science
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Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902) German pathologist and founder of cellular pathology. In his later life he turned to anthropology and archaeology and worked with Schliemann on the excavations at Troy, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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An alchemist or apothecary in his laboratory. Oil painting attributed to Egbert van Heemskerck.
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HERACLITUS Greek philosopher with globe Date: 540 - 480 BC
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Picture series the preparation of medicinal plants, Ricinus, castor oil plant (Ricinus communis), in the oil press, digitally restored reproduction of...
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Samuel Hahnemann (1755-1843). German physician, founder of homeopathy. New York. 50th Anniversary of the introduction of homeopathy. Commemorative banquet in the Hospital of Ward's Island. Engraving by Capuz. The Spanish and American Illustration, 1875. Colored.
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The four temperaments: Nervous, Sanguine, Bilious and Lymphatic. From Greek times, physicians had recognised four temperarments (humours) which they combined with the qualities hot, dry, wet, cold. From R. Trall Hydropathetic Enclyopaedia, New York, 1874.
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Diagram depicting calisthenics for girls. Using a chest expander "which may be produced at any surgeon's mechanist's or India-rubber warehouse". Dated 19th century
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PASTEUR, Louis (Dole ,1822-Villeneuve-l 'Etang, 1895) French chemist and bacteriologist. Discovery of rabies vaccine by Dr. Pasteur. Outside the Paris laboratory with the sick together. Drawing from nature by Luis Jimenez. Colored engraving.
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The Telegraph Station with Electromotive Printing Telegraphs in Berlin, Germany, 1890, Historic, digitally restored reproduction of an original 19th century artwork, Europe
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Healthy cooking course in the physics amphitheatre of the science faculty, Rouen, France, illustration by Bellenger from L'Illustration, Journal Universel, No 2201, Volume LXXXV, May 5, 1885.
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A skeletal man inspects a coin. Lithograph by L. Crusius.
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British Association for the Advancement of Science, meeting, Southampton, 1846: some of the participants. Wood engraving by Smyth, 1846.
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The interior of a dissecting room: five students and/or teachers dissect a cadaver. Photograph, ca. 1900 ().
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Student work room in the pre-air chemical institute of the University of Berlin, vintage engraved illustration. From the Universe and Humanity, 1910.
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Robert Knox lecturing on the anatomy of the pig. Coloured lithograph.
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Working in America, Nikola Tesla develops his induction coil, producing light from a transformer using alternating current. Date: 1895
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Pilgrim buying a Glass Mirror, from a MS of Lydgate's Poem of "The Pilgrim", Illustration from the Book, "John Cassels Illustrated History of England, Volume II", text by William Howitt, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, London, 1858
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THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A satire on the English scientist's discovery of a gelatinous substance on the seabed: he is discussing his findings with a mermaid Date: 1825-1895
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Silkworm farm, showing interior of rearing house or Magnangerie and collection of mulberry leaves (1) on which caterpillars (worms) were fed. From 'The Universal Magazine', London, 1753. Engraving.
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Louis Pasteur (1822 - 1895), French chemist and microbiologist. Dogs with hydrophobia at the Institut Pasteur, Paris. Date: 1884
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William Herschel (1738-1822) German-born English astronomer, investigating heating effect of infra-red (published 1800) In background is Herschel's 40ft reflecting telescope. Artist's reconstruction
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China: 'Uffner's Mammoth Giant and Marvelous Mite' Chang the Chinese Giant, Piccadilly Hall, London, c. 1880
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Color print by Josef Maria Auchentaller before November 1899 depicting Schott & Donnath, showing commercial or industrial products and workers in production setting.
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Springs of Saxony, 1902, Vogtlandkreis, Bad Elster, Marien, Albert und Königsquelle, Germany
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Postural pictures of Louis Pasteur, pioneer of modern microbiology, (1882-1895). Adobe InDesign (.indd).