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History of science

study of the historical development of science and scientific knowledge

Contents

Organizations, societies and institutionsEdit

  • Ole Worm's Cabinet of Curiosities (1655)

  • Académie des Sciences (1698)

Instruments and laboratoriesEdit

  • Armillary sphere, ca. 1582

  • Astrolabe, 18th century

  • Orrery

  • Burning lamp

PortraitsEdit

  • Plato and Aristotle (1509)

  • Ptolemy (medieval)

  • Vesalius (1543)

  • Copernicus (early 16th century)

  • Galilei (1636)

  • Johannes Kepler (1610)

  • René Descartes

  • Robert Boyle (1689)

  • Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1700)

  • Isaac Newton (1689)

  • Leonhard Euler

  • Carolus Linnaeus (1775)

  • Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

  • Pierre-Simon Laplace

  • Alexander von Humboldt (1806)

  • Charles Lyell

  • Michael Faraday

  • Charles Darwin (1868)

  • Louis Pasteur (1885)

  • William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

  • James Clerk Maxwell

  • Niels Bohr

  • Thomas Hunt Morgan (1891)

  • Albert Einstein (1947)

Frontispieces and title pagesEdit

  • De corporis humani fabrica by Vesalius (1543)

  • De revolutionibus by Copernicus (1543)

  • Instauratio magna by Bacon (1620)

  • Tabulae Rudolphinae by Kepler (1627)

  • Dialogo by Galileo (1632)

  • Discours de la Methode by Descartes (1637)

  • Historia Plantarum by Theophrastus (1644)

  • Principia Mathematica by Newton (1686)

  • Opticks by Newton (1704)

  • Elémens de la philosophie de Neuton by Voltaire (1738)

  • Encyclopedie of Diderot (1751)

  • Systema Naturae by Linnaeus (10th ed., 1758)

  • The Temple of Nature by Erasmus Darwin (1803)

  • Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)

  • Man's Place in Nature by Huxley (1863)

Science and religionEdit

  • Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition by Cristiano Banti (1857)

  • Galileo before the Holy Office by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury

  • Philosophy and Christian Art by Daniel Huntington (1868)

  • Detail from Education by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1890)

By fieldEdit

AstronomyEdit

  • Sir William Herschel

  • Caroline Herschel

  • Maria Mitchell

  • Diagrams from Theorice Novae Planetarum by George Puerbach

  • Astronomers Studying an Eclipse by Antoine Caron (1571)

  • Diagram from Mysterium Cosmographicum by Johannes Kepler (1596)

  • A priest-astronomer in the Chinese tradition by Ferdinand Verbiest (1675)

  • A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery by Joseph Wright of Derby (ca. 1766)

  • The "Flammarion Woodcut" (1888)

  • L'Astronomie tapestry

BiologyEdit

  • Detail from De arte venandi cum avibus, late 13th century

  • Illustration of cork from Robert Hooke's Micrographia

  • Sketch of Darwin's first evolutionary tree

  • Illustration of chromosomes crossing over by Thomas Hunt Morgan

Chemistry and AlchemyEdit

  • Hieronymus Brunschwig Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis (Strassburg, 1512)

  • Alchemist's Laboratory by Heinrich Khunrath (1595)

  • Santorio Santorio's device for measuring weight before and after eating (1614)

  • Alchemist Filling Wet Drug Jars, 17th C.

  • Die Alchemisten by Pietro Longhi (1757)

  • The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone by Joseph Wright of Derby (1771)

  • Justus van Bentum, The Explosion in the Alchemist’s Laboratory, 17/18th C.

  • Franz Christoph Janneck, The Medical Alchemist, !8th C.

  • The Alchemist by William Fettes Douglas

  • Der Alchimist by Carl Spitzweg (1860)

  • Alchemist Sędziwój by Jan Matejko (1867)

  • Thomas Wijck, Alchemist in His Study with a Woman Making Lace, 17th C.

  • Reconstruction of the Watson-Crick DNA model

Earth sciencesEdit

  • Shark's head illustration by Nicolas Steno

  • Biogeographical illustration by Alexander von Humboldt

  • Henry de la Beche watercolor of fossil life

MathematicsEdit

  • Mary Fairfax, Mrs William Somerville (1834)

MedicineEdit

  • Paracelsus

  • Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon, photo of bust in marketplace of birth town

  • Rembrandt: Anatomie des Dr. Tulp

  • Deutsch: Sympathische Entsprechungen zwischen Pflanzen und Tieren (Signaturen). Holzschnitt nach Auffassung Giambattista della Portas (16. Jh.)

PhysicsEdit

  • Madame Du Châtelet at her desk, by De La Tour, 18th century

  • Marie Curie (born Maria Salomea Skłodowska), Nobel Prize, (1911)

  • Lise Meitner (1946)

Social sciencesEdit

TechnologyEdit

  • John Harrison

  • Ada Lovelace, by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, 1836

  • Charles Babbage, by Samuel Lawrence, 1845

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