Historical Scientific Portraits

Engravings of prominent figures in astronomy and medicine, highlighting their importance in scientific history through detailed illustrations.

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY English chemist and clergyman, best known for his experiments with electricity and oxygen Date: 1733 - 1804

REMBERT DODOENS (known as Dodonaeus) Dutch botanist and medical Date: 1517 - 1585

'Nicolaus Mulerius (1564-1630) Dutch physician, mathematician and astronomer, first professor of mathematical sciences at Groningen. Engraving c1725.'

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

Daniel Turner (1667-1741) English physician and surgeon. A pioneer in the field of dermatology. Engraving by George Vertue for the frontispiece of Turner's 'Syphilis' (London, 1737). A Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and of the Royal Society whose motto 'Nullius in Verba' is at the bottom of the portrait frame.

Thomas Wright, English astronomer, scientific instrument maker and teacher, 1793. Artist: Unknown

Thomas Wright (1711-1786) English astronomer. From 'The Gentleman's Magazine', London, 1793. The object at the bottom of the engraving is a cylinder sundial for telling the time.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian astronomer.

Robert Fludd (1574-1637) English chemist, astrologer and mystic, supporter of the Rosicrucians and a follower of Paracelsus, born at Bearsted, Kent. From 'Icones Virorum' by Friedrich Roth-Scholtz (Nuremberg, 1725).

JOSEPH PRIESTLEY English chemist and clergyman, best known for his experiments with electricity and oxygen Date: 1733 - 1804

Portrait of the French chemist Nicolas Lemery, French Pilsen, 1710 - 1784 print Ghent paper engraving book

Richard Mead (1673-1754) Fashionable London physician. One of his patients was Isaac Newton. Engraving, London, 1753.

Linnaeus (Carl von Linne - 1707-1778). Swedish naturalist, shown holding a sprig of Linnea borealis. Engraving

Pierre Bouguer, astrónomo y matemático francés.

Nicasius le Febure, aka Nicolas le Febure or Nicasius le Fevre or Nicolas le Fèvre, 1615 - 1669. French born chemist and alchemist. Little is known of his personal life, but it is thought he took En

Astronomy: an astronomer in his study, leaning on a planetary globe, while holding a pair of dividers. Engraving.

Richard Mead (1673 - 1754) Physician from London England, attended Isaac Newton.

GALILEO GALILEI. ASTROLOGO ITALIANO. 1564-1642. GRABADO. BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL.

Daniel Bernoulli, 8 February 1700 - 17 March 1782, Swiss mathematician and physicist and was one of the many prominent mathematicians in the Bernoulli family from Basel / Daniel Bernoulli, 8. Februar 1700 - 17. März 1782, ein Schweizer Mathematiker und Physiker aus der Gelehrtenfamilie Bernoulli, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Olivier de Serres, French agronomist and botanist

William Harvey (1578-1657) English physician: circulation of the blood. Engraving published Paris, 1870

Dr William Harvey 1578-1657; English physician who was the first to describe completely & in detail the systemic circulation of blood around the body

Thomas Willis (1621-75) English physician. First in modern times to notice sweetish taste of diabetic urine in diabetes mellitus. Studied brain and nervous system. One of founders of the Royal Society. Hand-coloured engraving by George Vertue published 1742.

Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777) Swiss anatomist and physiologist. Engraving, Paris, 1874.

Thomas Willis (1621-75) English physician. First in modern times to notice sweetish taste of diabetic urine in diabetes mellitus. Studied brain and nervous system. One of founders of the Royal Society. Hand-coloured engraving by George Vertue published 1742

Thomas Willis (1621-75) English physician. First in modern times to notice sweetish taste of diabetic urine in Diabetes mellitus. Studied brain and nervous system. One of founders of the Royal Society, published 1742, George Vertue (1684-1756/British) , Hand-coloured engraving

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Physicist, Italian mathematician and astronomer. Engraving.

Benoit de Maillet (1656-1738) French diplomat and traveller. He attempted to measure the age of the earth and came to the somewhat arbitrary conclusion that it was 2 billion years. From 'Histoire des Philosophes Modernes' by Alexandre Saverien (Paris, 1762).

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

Hermann Boerhaave (1668-1738) Dutch physician and botanist. Engraving, Paris, 1874.

Galileo Galilei, 15 February 1564, 8 January 1642, an Italian polymath, philosopher, mathematician, engineer, physicist, astronomer and cosmologist, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown

Pedanius Dioscorides (40-90 AD), Greek botanist and pharmacologist, wrote DE MATERIA MEDICA (REGARDING MEDICAL MATTERS), a treatise on plants and their medicinal effects that served as authority for sixteen centuries.

England: c. 1630 An engraving of English physician William Harvey who was the first person to describe the blood circulatory system of the human body.

Johann Kaspar LAVATER - 1741-1801 Swiss Protestant theologian and proponent of PHYSIOGNOMY as a science.

Carl von Linne (1707-1778) known as Linnaeus, Swedish physician, botanist, and zoologist. Binomial classification. Engraving, Paris, 1874.

Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777), Swiss physician and scientist who was the founder of neurology, c1770. Experimental physiology. Engraving c1790.

WILLIAM HARVEY English physician who first expounded the theory of circulation of blood Date: 1578-1657

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

James Ferguson. Stipple engraving by P. Roberts, 1824.

Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, 1581-1637. French antiquary and humanist. Discoverer of the Orion Nebula (1610). Engraved by C. Mellan.

Portrait of Godefridus Wendelinus. Portrait bust of the Astronomer Godefridus Wendelinus. In the margin below the print, the title, name and death date of the person portrayed are in Latin. Print at the top left of marked: Tom. I. PAG. 298.

Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727). English mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Portrait of Isaac Newton. Engraving.

John Flamsteed (1646-1719) English astronomer and clergyman. Appointed first Astronomer Royal 1675. Engraving 1794.

Carl von Linné, Carolus Linnaeus, Carl Nilsson Linnaeus, 23 May 1707, 10 January 1778, a Swedish naturalist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Giovanni Battista (Alberto) FORTIS Italian naturalist Date: 1741 - 1803

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Italian astronomer and physicist. Engraving by Bernardo Rico (1825-1894). Cronica General de Espaa, Historia Ilustrada y Descriptiva de sus Provincias. Castilla-La Nueva, 1869.

Guillaume Francois Ruelle (1703-70) French chemist, Lavoisier's teacher. Professor (Demonstrateur) at the Jardin du Roi. Did much to popularise chemistry. Engraving published Paris 1874

Portrait of scientist Bonaventura Cavalieri, print maker: Giuseppe Fusinati, (mentioned on object), Italy, 1813 - 1883, paper, engraving, h 265 mm - w 164 mm

Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich (Rudjer Josip Boskovic - 1711-1787) Serbo-Croatian astronomer and mathematician, born at Dubrovnik. He entered the Jesuit order (Society of Jesus) in 1726 and studied mathematics and physics at the Collegium Romanum, Rome. Engraving.

Georg Ernst Stahl (1660-1734) German chemist and medical theorist. Proposed the phlogiston theory of combustion. Engraving from his 'Opusculum Chymico-physico-medicum' (1715).

Portrait of Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642); Italian polymath. Known for his work as astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician, Galileo has been called the "father of observational astronomy". 1630

Galileo Galilei. Photograph by Gustav Schauer after an engraving.

DANIEL BERNOULLI (1700-1782) Swiss mathematician and physicist.

Galileo Galilei.

Huygens. - Drawing of Edward Garnier. of Edelinck after, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1875.

Illustration showing Georges-Louis Le Sage (1724 - 1803); Swiss physicist known for his theory of gravitation, for his invention of an electric telegraph

Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel, William Herschel (November 15, 1738 - August 25, 1822) was a German-British astronomer, musician, and composer, digitally enhanced reproduction from a 19th-century original, historical, exact date unknown.

Edmé Quenedey (1756-1830). Physionotrace. 1786-1792. Edma Queenedey (1756-1830). Physionotrace. 1786-1792.

Dominis, Markantonio The Log In: Bill, Joenewill: Estrack, Renold

Tycho Brahe (Tyge Ottesen Brahe - 1546-1601) Danish astronomer, astrologer and alchemist who built astronomical instruments which enabled him to make the most accurate observations of his time. His system of the universe (Tychonic system) was a mixture of the Ptolemaic and Copernican systems. Engraving after an unknown artist.

Johann Heinrich Muller (1671-1731), German astronomer.

Olaus Borrichius or Ole or Olug Borch (1626-1690) Dutch chemist and alchemist. Engraving from From 'Icones Virorum' by Friedrich Roth-Scholtz (Nuremberg, 1725).

Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, 28 February 1683 - 17 October 1757, was a French naturalist and materials scientist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Engraving from Charas, Pharmacopee Royale

Heinrich Christian Schumacher (1780-1850). German astronomer: Director, Copenhagen observatory.

Georgius Agricola (Georg Bauer - 1494-1555) German physician, mineralogist and metallurgist. Author of 'De re metallica', Basel 1556. Engraving published Paris 1868

Jean Baptiste von Helmont (1579-1644). Belgian physician and chemist. Helmont recognised that there are more gases than just air, and claimed to have coined the word 'gas'. He believed that all mater was composed of water and air, and to prove this he grew a willow tree in earth, adding only water. From 'Vies des Savants lllustres' by Louis Figuier. (Paris, 1870). Engraving.

Ambroise Paré (1510-1590) was a French barber surgeon who served for kings Henry II, Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. He is considered one of the fathers of surgery and modern forensic pathology and a pioneer in surgical techniques and battlefield medicine, especially in the treatment of wounds. He was also an anatomist, invented several surgical instruments, and was a member of the Parisian barber surgeon guild. France. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Portraits et histoire des hommes utile by Societe Montyon et Franklin 1837

William Harvey (1578-1657) English physician: circulation of the blood. Engraving

Portrait of astronomer and engineer Eustachio Zanotti, print maker: Giovanni Boggi, (mentioned on object), Italy, 1780 - 1832, paper, etching, h 168 mm - w 125 mm

PASCAL, Blaise (1623-1662). French mathematican, physicist and philosopher. Engraving.

Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Differential calculus: gravitation: nature of light: reflecting telescope. Engraving by Houbraken after portrait by Kneller

Edmond Halley, 8 November 1656, 25 January 1742, an English astronomer, mathematician, cartographer, geophysicist and meteorologist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

LUDOVICO LUCIO AND GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). Location: BIBLIOTECA NACIONAL-COLECCION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English mathematician and physicist. Engraving.

BERNARD SIEGFRIED ALBINUS German anatomist Date: 1697-1770

Michel Nostradamus (1503-1556): French physician and astrologer: mono

Scardeonus, Bernhardinus.

Jacobus Theodorus Tabernaemontanus. Line engraving, 1688.

'Js. Ferguson', (1710-1776), 1830. James Ferguson (1710-1776) Scottish self-educated astronomer known as the inventor of astronomical and other scientific apparatus, also a lecturer. From "Biographical Illustrations", by Alfred Howard. Thomas Tegg, R. Griffin and Co., J. Cumming, London, Glasgow and Dublin, 1830

Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist, engraving, 17th century, 18th century

Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655) French philosopher and scientist, friend of Kepler and Galileo. Calculated velocity of sound in air with some accuracy. Engraving

Nathaniel Nye, 1624 - after 1647. English mathematician, astronomer, cartographer.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) 17th century Italian mathematician, geometer, physicist and astronomer. Italy. Europe. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Portraits et histoire des hommes utile by Societe Montyon et Franklin 1837

Isaac Newton, 1643 - 1727, English naturalist, historical woodcut, circa 1880

Pierre Simon Laplace (1749-1827), French mathematician and astronomer. His five volume 'Mecanique celeste' 1799-1825 was the greatest work on celestial mechanics since Newton's 'Principia'. 18th century Engraving.

William Harvey, 1 April 1578, 3 June 1657, was an English physician who made influential contributions to anatomy and physiology, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original

Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim Paracelsus. Line engraving by J. B. Fosseyeux.

John Winthrop (1714-1779) American physicist, mathematician and astronomer. In 1740 he observed a transit of Mercury. Engraving, 1896.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian Mathematician, Astronomer and Physicist Artist Unknown Engraving

Portrait of French astronomer Guillaume Postel, François Van Bleyswijck, 1681 - 1746 print Portrait of French astronomer Guillaume Postel in oval frame with measuring instruments. Leiden paper etching / engraving astronomical instruments

Historical illustration, Johannes Kepler, Keppler or Ioannes Keplerus, 1571 - 1630, German philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, optician and Protestant theologian

Robert Short with the eight-inch stone extracted from him by surgeons at St. Thomas' Hospital, Southwark, London. Copperplate engraving from John Caulfield's Portraits, Memoirs and Characters of Remarkable Persons, Young, London, 1819.

Goltzius, Hendrick, Haarlem, L'homme propose, Et dieu dispose, Portrait of Nicolaus Petri van Deventer, center bottom - stamped, accountant and astronomer in Amsterdam. Half-length portrait, behind a table on which mathematical and astronomical instruments: globe, celestial sphere, astrolabe, compass. To the left of his head a geometric figure, to the right a celestial sphere. Man on the left in the background aims a measuring instrument at the obelisk on the right in the background., print, prints, Et dieu dispose., top center - engraved, Ao 1595, HG, bottom left - engraved, height 91 mm, width 80 mm, Northern Netherlands, 1558-01 - 1617-01-01, print maker, printmaker, 1595 - 1595, fourth quarter 16th century, paper, engraving, engraving (printing process), Work conception, after own design by

Portrait of Paolo Frisi (1728-1784), mathematician, astronomer and Italian presbyter, engraving by Cagnoni and Appiani.

Portrait of Mikolaj Kopernik called Niccolo Copernico (1473-1543), Polish astronomer, engraving by Conquy.

Portrait of the astronomer Martin Wenzel. Portrait of astronomer Martin Wenzel standing at a table, the right hand on a sky globe. Right rear his family crest. Left through the window can be seen how two men are working on geographic measurements.

PIERRE BELON French naturalist Date: 1517 - 1564

Portrait of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian physicist, philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, engraving by Spagnoli.

George Parker (1651-1743) English almanac maker, astrologer and quack. Parker's birth chart or Nativity. Engraving c1800.

Historical drawing from the 19th Century, portrait of Christian Friedrich Samuel Hahnemann, 1755 - 1843, a German physician, medical scripture, translator and founder of homeopathy

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