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Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749 (Title of work: Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands..)

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History of science graphics

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 4701
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,...
Dates: circa 1600s-1900s.