Calculation Collection (page 3)

Money pays also means settling accounts. Painting by Georges De La Tour (1593-1652)
JLJ4686828 Money pays also means settling accounts. Painting by Georges De La Tour (1593-1652), 17th century. oil on canvas. Dim: 0, 99 X 1, 52m

18-inch Hadley quadrant or octant, c. 1760 (wood, brass & glass)
MFR348317 18-inch Hadley quadrant or octant, c.1760 (wood, brass & glass) by Adams, George (1750-95); 45.72 cm; Private Collection; (add.info)

Inclining Analemmatic Sundial, c. 1750 (brass)
MFR348310 Inclining Analemmatic Sundial, c.1750 (brass) by Aboab, Mordecai Semah (c.1707-55); Private Collection; (add.info)

Backstaff (lignum vitae & boxwood)
MFR348305 Backstaff (lignum vitae & boxwood) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Navigational instrument used to measure the altitude of a celestial body; the sight)

Hadley Quadrant with transversal scale (mahogany, brass & ivory)
MFR348301 Hadley Quadrant with transversal scale (mahogany, brass & ivory) by English School, (18th century); Private Collection; (add.info)

Portrait of a gentleman believed to be Thomas Harriot, c. 1620 (engraving)
XJF359014 Portrait of a gentleman believed to be Thomas Harriot, c.1620 (engraving) by Delaram, Francis (c.1590-1627); Private Collection; (add.info.: Thomas Harriot (c.1560-1621) English astronomer

Calculating machine invented by Blaise Pascal (1623-62) in 1642 (wood & metal)
CHT166620 Calculating machine invented by Blaise Pascal (1623-62) in 1642 (wood & metal) by French School, (17th century); CNAM, Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers

Astrolabe, 1216 (metal)
XIR158206 Astrolabe, 1216 (metal) by Ibn Jusuf, Abu Bakr (fl.1208-18); Musee Paul Dupuy, Toulouse, France; (add.info.: used to chart movement of the planets and the sun; ); Moroccan, out of copyright

Plate I, Illustrating Law II from Volume I of The Mathematical Principles of Natural
BAL136314 Plate I, Illustrating Law II from Volume I of The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) engraved by John Lodge (fl)

A Genethliac, or Astrological Horoscope, from Science
XJF193898 A Genethliac, or Astrological Horoscope, from Science and Literature in the Middle Ages, written and engraved by Paul Lacroix, 1878 (engraving) (b/w photo) by French School

An astronomer doing calculations using a sextant during an eclipse
GIA4792133 An astronomer doing calculations using a sextant during an eclipse. Engraving of the 16th century. by Unknown Artist, (16th century); Private Collection; eGiancarlo Costa; out of copyright

The F-mark
Victoria Glinka

WW1 War Loan poster Date: 1914

Allegory of Arithmetic, 1650 (oil on canvas)
WLT218460 Allegory of Arithmetic, 1650 (oil on canvas) by La Hyre, Laurent de (1606-56); 103.6x112 cm; Walters Art Museum, Baltimore

Lab technician with a slide rule, Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962. Before the invention of cheap electronic calculators, slide rules had to be used to work out formulae

Clerk using a Pascal adding machine, 1835
Clerk using an adding machine of the type developed by Blaise Pascal (1623-1664), 1835. (Colorised black and white print)

Study for the Last Super and Mathematical Figures and Calculations, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Study for the Last Super and Mathematical Figures and Calculations, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Sheet of Pictographs, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Sheet of Pictographs, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

Weighing the Earth, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

Super calculating machine, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

Telling time at night using a nocturnal, 1539. The hour is obtained by measuring the angular position of the imaginary line joining the pointers in the constellation of the Plough to the Pole Star

Reiner Gemma Frisius, Dutch astronomer, geographer, cartographer and mathematician, 1539. Gemma Frisius (1508-1555) holding an adjustable ring dial for determining the altitude of the Sun for

Using astrolabes to calculate the height of a steeple, 1539. Artist: Petrus Apianus
Using astrolabes to calculate the height of a steeple, 1539. From Cosmographia, Peter Apian, Antwerp, 1539

Surveying, early 17th century. Method of using a quadrant fitted with a plumb line and marked with shadow scales to measure the depth of a well. From Utriusque cosmi... historia by Robert Fludd

Surveying and timekeeping, 1551. On the left are various different kinds of sundial and a clock with a single arm. On the right a survey is being made of the height of the tower, using quadrants

Surveying, 1551. Obtaining the height of a building by the use of a cross-staff. From Rudimenta Mathematica by Sebastian Munster. (Basel, 1551)

Using a quadrant with a plumb bob to calculate the height of a tower by triangulation, 1551. From Rudimenta Mathematica by Sebastian Munster. (Basel, 1551)

Keplers illustration to explain his discovery of the elliptical orbit of Mars, 1609. Working with data collected by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe

Method of laying an artillery piece on target using Gunners scale, 18th century. Paths of trajectories and various types of ammunition are shown

ENIAC computer, c1944. Artist: J Presper Eckert
ENIAC computer, c1944. The first all-electronic computer designed to be Turing-complete, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

Transit of Venus, 1639, (1662). Artist: Johannes Hevelius
Transit of Venus, 1639, (1662). Polish astronmer Johannes Heveliuss engraving of Jeremiah Horrockss observations of the transit of Venus, 24 November 1639

Counters and counting system, 16th century
Counters and counting system, from Munich, 16th century

Egyptian monthly accounts from the archive of a temple, similar to a modern spreadsheet in analysis. From the Louvres collection

Title page of Quadrans Apiani by German mathematician and astronomer Peter Apian, 1532. The illustration shows his recently invented quadrant

Charles Babbages Difference Engine No 1, prototype calculating machine, 1824-1832. Artist: Joseph Clement
Charles Babbages Difference Engine No 1, prototype calculating machine, 1824-1832. English mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

Pythagoras, Greek mathematician, 1508. Pythagoras (right) using a counting table, competes against Boethius (Boece) using algorithms for speed at calculation

Pascals digital counting machine of 1642, 1751-1780
Blaise Pascals (1623-1664) digital counting machine (1642) showing (top) two of the train of number wheels which were viewed through windows in the casing of the machine

George and Edward Scheutzs calculating machine. Based on Babbages difference engine, it was developed between 1837 and 1843. Purchased for Dudley Observatory, Albany, New York

Babbages difference machine, 1864. Artist: Charles Babbage
Babbages difference machine. From Charles Babbage Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, London, 1864. Engraving

Advertisement for the Arithmometer, calculating machine. From A Concise History of The International Exhibition of 1862, published 1862

A Japanese man using a soroban, or abacus. Detail from an 18th or 19th century woodcut by Japanese artist Toyohiro Utagawa

Two Chinese men with an abacus. After a work published in 1861 by 19th century Japanese artist Utagawa Yoshitora

Burroughs Adding and Registering Machine. From The Business Encyclopaedia and Legal Adviser, published 1907

Zohrn Schiiga Land Hunter 1917 pencil crayon
The Zohrn, Schiiga and Land = Hunter, 1917, pencil and crayon, sheet: 29 x 22.4 cm, recto [above, from left to right] South. Soleil. 1, 917. Zohrn =, Hohrn. Zitter =, Linden. Senner =, Alp

Messrs. Scheutzs New Calculating Machine
Messrs. Pehr (Per) Georg Scheutz (1785-1873) and Edvard Scheutzs (of Stockholm, Sweden) New Calculating (Tabulating) Machine

Circumference of the Earth. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) de
Circumference of the Earth. Eratosthenes (250 BC) calculated the circumference of the Earth by measuring noontime shadows at two localities of different latitude

Childs slate and toy gun on a Christmas card. early 20th century

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