History of science
study of the historical development of science and scientific knowledge
Organizations, societies and institutionsEdit
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Ole Worm's Cabinet of Curiosities (1655)
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Académie des Sciences (1698)
Instruments and laboratoriesEdit
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Armillary sphere, ca. 1582
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PortraitsEdit
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Plato and Aristotle (1509)
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Copernicus (early 16th century)
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1700)
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Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Alexander von Humboldt (1806)
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William Thomson, Lord Kelvin
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Thomas Hunt Morgan (1891)
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Frontispieces and title pagesEdit
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De corporis humani fabrica by Vesalius (1543)
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De revolutionibus by Copernicus (1543)
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Instauratio magna by Bacon (1620)
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Tabulae Rudolphinae by Kepler (1627)
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Dialogo by Galileo (1632)
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Discours de la Methode by Descartes (1637)
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Historia Plantarum by Theophrastus (1644)
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Principia Mathematica by Newton (1686)
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Elémens de la philosophie de Neuton by Voltaire (1738)
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Encyclopedie of Diderot (1751)
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Systema Naturae by Linnaeus (10th ed., 1758)
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The Temple of Nature by Erasmus Darwin (1803)
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Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1859)
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Man's Place in Nature by Huxley (1863)
Science and religionEdit
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Galileo facing the Roman Inquisition by Cristiano Banti (1857)
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Galileo before the Holy Office by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury
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Philosophy and Christian Art by Daniel Huntington (1868)
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Detail from Education by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1890)
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Diagrams from Theorice Novae Planetarum by George Puerbach
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Astronomers Studying an Eclipse by Antoine Caron (1571)
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Diagram from Mysterium Cosmographicum by Johannes Kepler (1596)
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A priest-astronomer in the Chinese tradition by Ferdinand Verbiest (1675)
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A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery by Joseph Wright of Derby (ca. 1766)
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The "Flammarion Woodcut" (1888)
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Detail from De arte venandi cum avibus, late 13th century
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Illustration of cork from Robert Hooke's Micrographia
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Sketch of Darwin's first evolutionary tree
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Illustration of chromosomes crossing over by Thomas Hunt Morgan
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Hieronymus Brunschwig Liber de arte Distillandi de Compositis (Strassburg, 1512)
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Alchemist's Laboratory by Heinrich Khunrath (1595)
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Santorio Santorio's device for measuring weight before and after eating (1614)
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Alchemist Filling Wet Drug Jars, 17th C.
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Die Alchemisten by Pietro Longhi (1757)
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The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher's Stone by Joseph Wright of Derby (1771)
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Justus van Bentum, The Explosion in the Alchemist’s Laboratory, 17/18th C.
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Franz Christoph Janneck, The Medical Alchemist, !8th C.
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The Alchemist by William Fettes Douglas
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Der Alchimist by Carl Spitzweg (1860)
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Alchemist Sędziwój by Jan Matejko (1867)
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Thomas Wijck, Alchemist in His Study with a Woman Making Lace, 17th C.
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Reconstruction of the Watson-Crick DNA model
Earth sciencesEdit
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Shark's head illustration by Nicolas Steno
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Biogeographical illustration by Alexander von Humboldt
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Henry de la Beche watercolor of fossil life
MathematicsEdit
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Mary Fairfax, Mrs William Somerville (1834)
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Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon, photo of bust in marketplace of birth town
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Rembrandt: Anatomie des Dr. Tulp
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Madame Du Châtelet at her desk, by De La Tour, 18th century
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Marie Curie (born Maria Salomea Skłodowska), Nobel Prize, (1911)
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Social sciencesEdit
TechnologyEdit
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Ada Lovelace, by Margaret Sarah Carpenter, 1836
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Charles Babbage, by Samuel Lawrence, 1845