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, from original woodcut block (2 copies).

Scope and content

Also, a facsimile of "The largest white-bill wood pecker and the willow oak", by Mark Catesby. "A keepsake ... to mark the four-volume publication of Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. The 265 original watercolour drawings of 1722-26, in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle, now for the first time published in facsimile with a precise resetting of the original English text"--Caption. Enclosed with the print are four sample pages of text, and a leaflet on the planned facsimile.

Dates

circa 1600s-1900s.

Creator

no primary creator (Person)
Catesby, Mark (Person)
Catesby, Mark, 1683-1749 (Title of work: Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands..) (Author, Person)
Thomson, J. J. (Joseph John), 1856-1940. (Person)
Vesalius, Andreas, 1514-1564. (Title of work: De humani corporis fabrica..) (Person)
Guerlac, Henry. (Person)
Colombo, Realdo, 1516-1559. (Title of work: De re anatomica..) (Person)

Language of Material

In English, Italian, Latin, and French.

Biographical / Historical

Henry Guerlac and George Sarton were prominent American historians of science.

Biographical / Historical

Sir J.J. Thomson was a British physicist involved in the discovery of the electron.

Biographical / Historical

H.H. Boysen was a microbiologist.

Biographical / Historical

Howard B. Adelmann was a zoologist and embryologist who taught at Cornell University throughout his 42-year career.

Biographical / Historical

Mark Catesby was a naturalist, artist, and author of books on the flora and fauna of Carolina.

Biographical / Historical

Jean Sylvain Bailly was a French astronomer and mathematician as well as the mayor of Paris from 1789-1791.

Biographical / Historical

Isaac Barrow was an English theologian and mathematician who played an important role in the development of infinitesimal calculus. His student Isaac Newton continued this work.