Historical Scientists Illustrations

Engravings of notable historical scientists, showcasing their contributions to geology, chemistry, and physics from the 18th and 19th centuries.

VOLTA, Alessandro, Count (As 1745-Como, 1827) Italian physicist. Nineteenth-century engraving.
VOLTA, Alessandro, Count (As 1745-Como, 1827) Italian physicist. Nineteenth-century engraving.
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Benjamin Silliman, M.D., L.L.D., professor of chemistry, geology and mineralogy in Yale College.. 1880. Prints. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection
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John George Palitzsch, vintage engraving. John George Palitzsch, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1852. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10673562
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Otto Eduard Vincenz Ule, 1820, 1876, was a German writer, known for his popularisation of the natural sciences, digitally restored reproduction of a 1...
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Joseph-François Malgaigne (1806-1865), French surgeon, anatomist and historian. Engraving, 1873.
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David Hosack (1769-1835), American physician and botanist. He founded the Elgin Botanic Garden in New York, where the Rockefeller Centre stands today. Copperplate engraving, 1896, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, record date not stated
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Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, 1795-1876, a German zoologist, microbiologist, ecologist, geologist and the founder of micropaleontology and microbiology, Berlin Geographical Society, historical engraving, circa 1869
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Joseph Black (1728-99) Scottish chemist.
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Illustration showing Prof Robert Harkness (1816 - 1878), British geologist and mineralogist
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Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729-1799) Italian biologist. He worked on bacteria (disproved spontaneous generation), digestion (first to use term gastric juice), respiration (proved tissues use oxygen and produce carbon dioxide). Pioneer of Vulcanology. From 'Vies Des Savants: Illustres du XVIIIe Siecle' by Louis Figuier. (Paris, 1874). Wood engraving.
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Justus Freiherr von Liebig, 1803 - 1873, German chemist and scientist, digitally edited
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Denis Papin (22 August 1647 to 26 August 1713, French physicist, mathematician and inventor, historical, digitally improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century.
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Portrait of Edward Jenner (1749-1823) was an English physician and scientist who pioneered the concept of vaccines including creating the smallpox vaccine, the world's first vaccine. Old 19th century engraved illustration from La Nature 1889
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David Brewster (1781-1868) Scottish physicist. Optics (kaleidoscope and polarised light). Editor of the 'Edinburgh Magazine' 1802 and the 'Edinburgh Encyclopaedia' 1808. On the table beside him is a stereoscope, one of the optical instruments he invented. Engraving, c1870.
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Thomas Nuttall (1786-1859) English botanist, plant collector and ornithologist, born near Settle Yorkshire. He worked in America from 1810-1842. Engraving 1896.
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Hans Christian Oested (1777-1851) German physicist. Discovered effect of electric on a magnetic needle. Engraving c1870
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Portrait of mathematician and astronomer Barnaba Oriani, monogrammist Al (19th century), c. 1800 - c. 1899 print Italy paper engraving historical persons. science and technology (+ portrait of scholar, scientist)
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1800s GEORGE STEPHENSON ENGLISH CIVIL ENGINEER DEVELOPED MINER'S SAFETY LAMP AND DEVELOPED STANDARD RAILROAD GAUGE
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John Dalton, English chemist, c1860. Artist: Unknown
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James Cook (1728-1779) English Mariner and Explorer Stock Montage, Inc.
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SIR HENRY THOMAS DE LA BECHE English geologist Date: 1796 - 1855
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Rene Laennec (1781-1826), French physician and inventor of the stethoscope. He developed methods of medical diagnosis from heart and lung sounds heard through the stethoscope. Portrait lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, ca. 1820.
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Jean Baptiste Dumas (1814-1884), French chemist. From James Sheridan Muspratt Chemistry (London, ca. 1860) . Engraving, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) German chemist. From Sheridan Muspratt 'Chemistry', London, (c1860). Engraving
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John Dalton (1766 - 1844), English chemist, meteorologist and physicist. Date: 1834
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PIERRE-SIMON DE LAPLACE French astronomer and mathematician Date: 1749 - 1827
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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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Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre, French artist and chemist, (c1924). Artist: Unknown
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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.
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Franz Joseph Gall (1758 -1828). Neuroanatomist, physiologist, and pioneer in the study of the localization of mental functions in the brain. Colored engraving.
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Adrien-Marie Legendre, (born 18 September 1752 in Paris, died 9 January 1833 in Paris) was a French mathematician, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Daniel Rutherford (1749 1819) was a Scottish physician, chemist and botanist who is most famous for the isolation of nitrogen in 1772
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Steel engraving, ca. 1860, Sir Joseph Banks, 1st Baronet, GCB, PRS, 1743, 1820, English naturalist, botanist
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Justus Freiherr von Liebig, 1803 - 1873, German chemist and scientist, digitally edited
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William Gregory 1803-1858, Scottish chemist. Professor of Medicine and Chemistry at King S College in Aberdeen and from 1843 Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Studied with Justus von Liebig in Gießen and was the editor of English editions of Liebig's works. From James Sheridan Muspratt Chemistry London, approx. 1860. Copper engraving., Historically, digitally restored reproduction of a template from the 19th century, Record Date Not Stated
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Jos, Dobrowsky, A Slavicarum Literarum Cultoribus , Joseph Dobrowsky, Member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences,
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Allen Thomson, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy. Thomas Annan (Scottish,1829 - 1887)
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Portrait of mathematical and astronomer Joseph-Louis Lagrange; Portraits. .
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Photo of William Hare, William Burke and Dr Robert Knox. The Burke and Hare murders were a series of 16 killings committed over a period of about ten months in 1828 in Edinburgh, Scotland. They were undertaken by William Burke and William Hare, who sold the corpses to Robert Knox for dissection at his anatomy lectures. The murders raised public awareness of the need for bodies for medical research and contributed to the passing of the Anatomy Act 1832.
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Dr. Monro - Professor of Anatomy at Edinburgh. Posted in the magazine "Camera Work", 1905, XI. Collection of Juhl
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Franklin, Benjamin (1706-1790). American statesman and scientist. Colored engraving.
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Oval portrait of William Woodville, MD, FRS, physician and botanist, promoter of vaccination, author of Medical Botany, 1752-1805. Engraving by William Bond after a portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dr. Robert John Thorntons New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1806.
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Wilberforce, vintage engraving. Wilberforce, vintage engraved illustration. Magasin Pittoresque 1867. Copyright: xZoonar.com/PatrickxGuenettex 10678407
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JOSEPH PRIESTLY, the 18th century clergyman who distinguished himself by the discovery of oxygen.
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Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-1868) French physicist best known for the invention of the Foucault pendulum 1851, a device demonstrating the effect of the Earth's rotation., Wood engraving.,
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Portrait of the physicist Jacques Charles, Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1820 print Paris paper historical persons
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Sir William Jenner, 1st Baronet (1815Ð1898). English physician known for having discovered the distinction between typhus and typhoid. Engraving by La Ilustracion Iberica, 1888.
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William Gregory (1803-1858), Scottish chemist. Professor of Medicine and Chemistry at King's College in Aberdeen and from 1843 Professor of Chemistry at the University of Edinburgh. Studied under Justus von Liebig in Giessen and was editor of English editions of Liebig's works. From James Sheridan Muspratt Chemistry (London, ca. 1860) . Copperplate engraving, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated
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Richard Bright (1789-1858) English physician, born at Bristol. He described the condition of the kidneys known as Bright's disease. Engraving c1830.
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SIR JOHN FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL British astronomer and pioneer of photography Date: 1792 - 1871
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Sir George Biddell Airy (1801-1892) Astronomer Date:
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David Hosack, 1769 - 1835. American doctor, botanist, educator. He famously - and unsuccesfully - treated Alexander Hamilton after his duel with Aaron Burr. After a late 19th century engraving.
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Father Pietro Angelo Secchi, 29 June 1818, 26 February 1878, was an Italian astronomer and was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, Italy, reproduction of an image, woodcut from the year 1881, digitally improved, historical, Fr. Pietro Angelo Secchi, 29 June 1818, 26 February 1878, was an Italian astronomer and was a pioneer in astronomical spectroscopy, Italy, reproduction of an image, woodcut from the year 1881, digitally improved, historical, Fr, Europe
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John Barcla (10 December 1758) (21 August 1826), Scottish comparative anatomist, extramural teacher in anatomy, and director of the Highland Society of Scotland, John Barclay (10 December 1758) (21 August 1826), Scottish comparative anatomist, extramural teacher in anatomy, and director of the Highland Society of Scotland, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original. century, The natural history marsupial mammal (marsupialia) or pouched animals, G.R. Waterhouse, 1841
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Carl Ritter, 1779-1859, considered one of the founders of scientific geography, Berlin Geographical Society, historical engraving, circa 1869
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MUTIS , JOSE CELESTINO. NATURALISTA ESPAÑOL . CADIZ 1732 - 1808. OLEO DE J . A . MACHADO. ACADEMIA DE MEDICINA . MADRID.
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George Frederick Wright (1838-1921). American geologist and Congregational minister. Defended Darwinism, Engraving published 1892.
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SIR FREDERICK WILLIAM HERSCHEL German-British astronomer, discoverer of Uranus, 1781
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Portrait of the nature researcher Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Julien-Léopold Boilly, 1821 print Paris paper historical persons
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Oval portrait of William Woodville, physician and botanist, promoter of vaccination, author of Medical Botany, 1752-1805. Engraving by William Bond after a portrait by Lemuel Francis Abbott. View of the inoculating hospital at Pancras, engraving by Thomas Woolnoth after an illustration by George Shepherd. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Dr. Robert John Thorntons New Illustration of the Sexual System of Carolus von Linnaeus, the Temple of Flora, London, 1806.
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Pierre Paul Broca, 1824 - 1880, French physician, anatomist and anthropologist, digitally edited
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A man holding an anatomy book with an engraving of a woman showing her viscera. Oil painting, 18th century.
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Schleiden, Matthias Jacob (Hamburg ,1804-Frankfurt am Main, 1881). German botanist. His research on embryonic stem cells opened the way for the Schwann cell theory.
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Dominique Francois Jean Arago, 26 February 1786, 2 October 1853, French astronomer, physicist and politician, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century
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Amedeo Avogadro, Count of Quaregna and Cerreto (1776-1856). Italian savant.