Blaise Pascal.
An adding machine designed by Blaise Pascal.
Signature of Blaise Pascal.
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662)
Blaise Pascal
BLAISE PASCAL (1623-1662).
1645 Blaise Pascal French Physicist
Marin Mersenne performing an experiment.
A Brewster Stereoscope.
One of Evangelista Torricelli's experiments on barometric pressure.
Denis Papin.
Boatmen of the Weser destroying Denis Papin's steam engine.
The unveiling of the statue of Denis Papin.
William Whewell, English polymath
Denis Papin demonstrating his steam engine (1688).
A map of the moon based on observations.
Gerolamo Cardano.
Papin's steam engine.
Frontispiece of Giuseppe Piazzi's catalogue of star positions.
John Robison.
Air pressure experiment, 1648
Halley's Comet.
Sir David Brewster
A woman viewing a picture through a Brewster Stereoscope.
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Pierre-Simon Laplace's nebula hypothesis.
Simeon Denis Poisson.
Unglazed porcelain by Blaise Pascal.
Denis Papin, French physicist, artwork
John Napier Of Merchiston
Rene Descartes
Albert Einstein (14 March 1879-18 April 1955)
Posthumous Mask Of Sir Isaac Newton
Atmospheric refraction.
Christiaan Huygens
The explanation by Caspar Schott of how he thought the Egyptian priest used the principle of the camera obscura to display miraculous messages.
The boatmen on the Weser.
A steam engine designed by Denis Papin.
Professor Sir Roger Penrose
Giuseppe Piazzi's refracting telescope with achromatic lens.
Reconstruction of Andre-Marie Ampere's investigation of the behaviour of an electric current in a magnetic field.
Newton's house, 35 St Martin's Street
Death Mask Of Sir Isaac Newton
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
John Arbuthnot, Scottish physician
George Gabriel Stokes, British physicist
Oliver Heaviside, British physicist
Willebrord Snell, Dutch mathematician
Wedgewood medallion of Isaac Newton.
Galileo Galilei
FRANCOIS F NELON (1651-1715).
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, 1872 1970
An experiment conducted by Galileo Galilei.
The Robert brothers helping Professor Jacques Charles.
Diagram depicting a multiple Archimedean screws powered by a water wheel.
MATTHIAS PASOR (1599-1658).
Tommaso Campanella.
Robert Boyle
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Denis Papin
A.-M. Ampere
Sophie Germain (1776- 1831),
A table of the rarefaction of the air.
A table of the condensation of the air.
SAINT ALPHONSUS LIGUORI
ISAAC BARROW (1630-1677).
Diagram explaining the Christiaan Huygens' wave theory of light by refraction.
Plate from Isaac Newton Opticks.
Medal commemorating the reappearance of Halley's Comet in 1910.
Simeon Poisson, French physicist
JOHN HENRY NEWMAN
First section of 'Hydrodynamica'
BADEN POWELL (1796-1860).
Pythagoras.
Leonhard Euler
Anders Celsius.
Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician
Rene Descartes' explanation of the refraction of light.
Pascal adding machine
Archimedes sitting in his bath.
Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, German mathematician
Ptolemy of Alexandria's map of the then known world.
Ptolemy of Alexandria.
Richard Pendlebury.
EVANGELISTA TORRICELLI
Ruggero Boscovich, Croatian astronomer
Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
CHARLES PEIRCE (1839-1914).
Francesco Lana de Terzi's idea for a flying boat.
French 19th century. illustration. showing Saint Augustine of Hippo
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Title page of Naturae tabulae Frisicae lunae-solares quadruplices, quibus acceSere solis by Nicolaus Mulerius.
Edmond Halley's solar eclipse chart.
Ernest Barnes.
Musschenbroek invents the Leyden jar
PETRUS VAN MUSSCHENBROEK (1692 - 1761)
Jean Le Rond D'Alembert
Issac Newton, English physicist
James Freeman Clarke.
Alfonso XIII, 1886 1941
Francisco Suarez (1548 1617); Spanish Jesuit priest; philosopher and theologian
Leibniz's work on calculus
Karl Weierstrass.
Isaac Barrow, English mathematician
Stomachion puzzle
Archibald Montgomery Low, 1888 - 1956
Gemma Frisius.
TORRICELLI WITH BAROMETER.
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
A statue of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
William Wollaston, English theologian
Girolamo Fracastoro, Italian physicist
An experiment involving an inclined plane used to demonstrate the action of gravity on a falling body.
The path of a projectile according to Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia.
Experiment designed to measure the force of a falling body according to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation.
Hydrodynamics, from Galileo.
William Henry Bragg, British physicist
Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch theologian
Illustration of a man from 'The Portable Lavater or precise the art of knowing men by the facial features'
MARY FAIRFAX SOMERVILLE
Cover of the book Mechanicorum Liber by Guidobaldo del Monte.
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Bernoulli on fluid dynamics, 18th century
Tiberius Cavallo, Italian physicist
Crowds gathered to watch the landing of the first successful hydrogen filled balloon.
Crowds gathered to watch the release of the first successful hydrogen filled balloon.
Jacques Charles with the help of the Robert Brothers filling his balloon with hydrogen.
Andre Marie Ampere (1775-1826)
RUDOLF CLAUSIUS (1822-1888).
LORD KELVIN (1824-1907).
JOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Sir Harold Jeffreys, British astronomer
Pascal's triangle
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Prokop Divis, Czech scientist
A reconstruction of Hero's steam engine.
Henry Coley.
Arthur Cayley.
Marguerite de la Sabliere, arts patron
Title page of Bernoulli's 'Hydrodynamica' (1738)
Gauss and Weber, telegraph inventors
A map of the Moon.