Boatmen of the Weser destroying Denis Papin's steam engine.
The boatmen on the Weser.
Denis Papin.
Denis Papin demonstrating his steam engine (1688).
A steam engine designed by Denis Papin.
The unveiling of the statue of Denis Papin.
Papin's steam engine.
Denis Papin
Denis Papin, French physicist, artwork
The Weser workmen destroying Papin's steamboat.
Imaginative realisation of Newton's 'Steam Engine'.
A Brewster Stereoscope.
Blaise Pascal.
Simeon Denis Poisson.
A reconstruction of Hero's steam engine.
One of Evangelista Torricelli's experiments on barometric pressure.
Newton's house, 35 St Martin's Street
Edmond Halley's solar eclipse chart.
Pierre-Simon Laplace's nebula hypothesis.
Denis Papin, French physicist
Isaac Newton, English physicist
John Napier Of Merchiston
Diagram explaining the Christiaan Huygens' wave theory of light by refraction.
Sophie Germain (1776- 1831),
A woman viewing a picture through a Brewster Stereoscope.
Plate from Isaac Newton Opticks.
Medal commemorating the reappearance of Halley's Comet in 1910.
Halley's Comet.
Newton's observatory, St Martin's Street
Simeon Poisson, French physicist
An adding machine designed by Blaise Pascal.
Anders Celsius.
Destruction of Papin's steamboat, 1707
Reconstruction of Andre-Marie Ampere's investigation of the behaviour of an electric current in a magnetic field.
George Gabriel Stokes, British physicist
Oliver Heaviside, British physicist
A.-M. Ampere
James Watt's steam engine.
DENIS PAPIN (1647-1712).
John Robison.
The Robert brothers helping Professor Jacques Charles.
Sir David Brewster
The governor of James Watt's steam engine.
The end beam of James Watt's steam engine.
Issac Newton, English physicist
Archimedes sitting in his bath.
An experiment involving an inclined plane used to demonstrate the action of gravity on a falling body.
A Jet Cart.
Experiment designed to measure the force of a falling body according to Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation.
Hydrodynamics, from Galileo.
Gauss and Weber, telegraph inventors
Hero of Alexandria demonstrating his aeolipile.
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
Marin Mersenne performing an experiment.
Bernoulli on fluid dynamics, 18th century
The arrangement of lenses in Galileo Galilei's telescope.
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.
Title page of Bernoulli's 'Hydrodynamica' (1738)
Papin's steam engine demonstration, 1688
Nigel Weiss, British astrophysicist
Musschenbroek invents the Leyden jar
PETRUS VAN MUSSCHENBROEK (1692 - 1761)
The steam indicator of James Watt's steam engine.
Sir Isaac Newton, British physicist
The condenser of James Watt's steam engine.
Leonhard Euler
James Watt's sun-and-planet gears.
Pieter van Musschenbroek, Dutch scientist
Isaac Newton (1642-1727)
COLIN MACLAURIN (1698-1746).
SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1643-1727).
DANIEL BERNOULLI (1700-1782).
LEONARD EULER (1707-1783).
SIR ISAAC NEWTON (1642-1727).
Title page of 'Dissertatio academica de barometris' by Georg Albrecht Hamberger
The explanation by Caspar Schott of how he thought the Egyptian priest used the principle of the camera obscura to display miraculous messages.
Joseph Lagrange, French mathematician
A Newcomen steam engine.
Carl Von Steinheil, German physicist
Signature of Blaise Pascal.
William Whewell, English polymath
Archimedes of Syracuse
Ruggero Boscovich, Croatian astronomer
Sir Isaac Newton, English physicist
Jedediah Buxton, English mathematician
Jean Baptiste Biot, French physicist
Action and reaction by use of a reconstruction of he steam engine developed by Hero of Alexandria.
Andre Marie Ampere (1775-1826)
RUDOLF CLAUSIUS (1822-1888).
LORD KELVIN (1824-1907).
JOSIAH WILLARD GIBBS
Sir William Henry Bragg, 1862 1942
Josiah Willard Gibbs, US mathematician
The arrangement of lenses in Johannes Kepler's telescope.
A refracting telescope on an iron stand and fitted with a finder.
Nicolas de Condorcet, French politician
Thomas Newcomen's atmospheric steam engine.
Diagram depicting a multiple Archimedean screws powered by a water wheel.
Lord William Thomson Kelvin
Blaise Pascal
Galileo Galilei
Pierre Simon Laplace Marquis de Laplace
Sir Isaac Newton
Sir John Leslie
Greek illustration depicting the four elements.
Archimedes in his bath.
First section of 'Hydrodynamica'
Karl Weierstrass.
An adaptation of Newcomen's atmospheric steam engine.
Destruction of Papin's steamboat
Bernard Carr, British astronomer
Professor Sir Roger Penrose
Willebrord Snell, Dutch mathematician
Gustav Froment, French electrical engineer
An experiment conducted by Galileo Galilei.
The path of a projectile according to Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia.
Rene Descartes
J.-B. Biot
ISAAC NEWTON: MANUSCRIPT.
James Watt.
Stomachion puzzle
William Henry Bragg, British physicist
Marquis de Jouffroy d'Abbans.
Giuseppe Piazzi's refracting telescope with achromatic lens.
Frontispiece of Giuseppe Piazzi's catalogue of star positions.
Ptolemy of Alexandria's map of the then known world.
Ptolemy of Alexandria.
Richard Pendlebury.
Henry Coley.
Arthur Cayley.
Archimedes (c287-212 BC)
Samuel Pierpont Langley's first steam powered plane model.
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Sir Harold Jeffreys, British astronomer
Gerolamo Cardano.
JOSEPH NICEPHORE NIEPCE
Archimedes Of Syracuse