Scope and content

4 posters consisting of enlarged reproductions of illustrations from historical medical books. Sources include Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica, Lorenz Heister's A general system of surgery, Charles Estienne's De dissectione partium corporis humani, and William Smellie's A sett of anatomical tables, with explanations and an abridgement, of the practice of midwifery.

Scope and content Collection consists mainly of portraits of scientists and historians of science. Individuals pictured include George Sarton, H.H. Boysen, Howard B. Adelmann, Justus Liebig, Jean Sylvain Bailly, Isaac Barrow, Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, André-Marie Ampère, Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, and others. One of the portraits of Lavoisier includes a chilling depiction of Jacobins confiscating his possessions during the Reign of Terror. Also, title page proof of "De Re Anatomica", by Realdo Colombo,...