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Images Dated 21st February 2011 (page 4)

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Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1662 Schott deformities real and imagined

1662 Schott deformities real and imagined
I " Long eared man", II " Boy without a mouth" III " human with an arm/tube mouth", IV " One eyed man", V " Man with no head"

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1731 Johann Scheuchzer stone tools

1731 Johann Scheuchzer stone tools
1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuzner (1672-1733) folio copper engraving of prehistoric stone tools and monolith

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: Chinese Tibetan Silk tapestry tiger

Chinese Tibetan Silk tapestry tiger
Silk tapestry tiger, Chinese or Tibetan 19th or early 20th century. Part of a processional banner. The strange form of the stripes suggests unfamiliarity with the subject

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1627 A Beast Called Su

1627 A Beast Called Su
1627 Woodblock engraving in the text. From Sebastian Munsters account of the New World from the Cosmographia. German edition of 1627 dealing with the navigation of Magellan to Tierra del Fuego

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: Madagascan Pipevine swallowtail butterfly

Madagascan Pipevine swallowtail butterfly
The Madagascan Pipevine Swallowtail Pharmacophagus antenor (Drury 1773). Strong late 18th Century illustration with contemporary colouring following its discovery

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: Fullerene molecule

Fullerene molecule. Molecular model of the spherical fullerene molecule C180. Fullerenes are structurally distinct forms (allotropes) of carbon

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1731 Johann Scheuchzer Noahs Ark Flood

1731 Johann Scheuchzer Noahs Ark Flood
1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) loading the Ark, folio copper engraving drawn by a team of engravers under the direction of Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674-1748)

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1819 Humboldt Travels South America

1819 Humboldt Travels South America
South American geological and ethnic artefacts with the first english translation (1819) of Alexander Humboldts " Personal Narrative of Travels in the Equinoctial Regions of the New Continent

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: Cupped ichthyosaur vertebrae Everard Home

Cupped ichthyosaur vertebrae Everard Home
Ichthyosaur Vertebrae in cross section, copper plate illustration from a paper by Sir Everard Home in the Transactions of the Royal Philosophical Society

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1626 Francis Bacon Portrait Philosopher

1626 Francis Bacon Portrait Philosopher
Sir Francis Bacon British Scientist, Philosopher and Statesman (22 January 1561 - 9 April 1626). Copper frontis engraving from Bacons Sylva Sylvarum

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1797 First Handaxe John Frere of Hoxne 1

1797 First Handaxe John Frere of Hoxne 1
Page 204 and engraving XIV by John Frere in Archaeologia 13, 1800. In June of 1797 Frere wrote to the Society of Antiquaries describing that, in the same month

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1833 Fat Dodo from the Penny Magazine

1833 Fat Dodo from the Penny Magazine
Woodblock print with later handcolouring from the Penny Magazine (London, June 1, 1833). Print after similar painting by C. Edwards 1750 and particularly the painting by W. Hodges 1773

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: Krishna 19th Century Miniature painting

Krishna 19th Century Miniature painting
19th Century Indian miniature in an early wood frame. Krishna is a Hindu deity, an avatar of Vishnu, here shown with characteristic blue skin playing a flute

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1777 Buffon Albino African American

1777 Buffon Albino African American
Plate I, page 564, Supplement of Volume IV of " L Histoire Naturelle" (servant de suite a l histoire naturelle de l homme). Published by M

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1823 William Buckland cave hyena fossil

1823 William Buckland cave hyena fossil
1823 Copper engraving of a modern hyena (top) and British hyena jawbones (below) from Kirkdale cave (below) with an actual cave hyena (Crocuta crocuta spelaea) fossil jawbone resting on the page

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1558 Gessner Sea Serpent devouring a ship

1558 Gessner Sea Serpent devouring a ship
1558 Conrad Gessner Volume 4, Sea Serpents from his " Historia Animalium". Later hand colouring. Italic marginalia by contemporary scholar

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1822 First description of dinosaur

1822 First description of dinosaur
1822 Plate from James Parkinsons " Outlines of Oryctology" with composite of contemporary library book reference card and the Parkinsons description of Megalosaurus

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1736 Edmond Halley astronomer & physicist 1736 Edmond Halley astronomer & physicist

1736 Edmond Halley astronomer & physicist 1736 Edmond Halley astronomer & physicist
Edmond Halley astronomer and physicist (8 November 1656 - 14 January 1742). 1832 Engraving by W.D. Fry in the " Gallery of Portraits" after the painting by Dahl 1736 at age 80 with later

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: Alpine Geology flood evidence Scheuchzer

Alpine Geology flood evidence Scheuchzer
1731 Copperplate print of alpine geology and recurved strata as evidence of the catastrophe of Noahs Flood. Print is from Johann Jakob Scheuchzers (born August 2nd 1672 - died June 23rd 1733)

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1731 Johann Scheuchzer Creation 6th day

1731 Johann Scheuchzer Creation 6th day
1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) folio copper engraving drawn by a team of engravers under the direction of Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674-1748)

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: Fullerene molecule

Fullerene molecule. Molecular model of the spherical fullerene molecule C180. Fullerenes are structurally distinct forms (allotropes) of carbon

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1516 amphisbaenid Plinys Natural History

1516 amphisbaenid Plinys Natural History
1516 A page detail from Francois Regnaults early printing of Pliny the Elders " Natural History". Plinys Natural History (written up to AD 77)

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1731 Johann Scheuchzer star magnitudes

1731 Johann Scheuchzer star magnitudes
1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) " Stars without number" star magnitudes and numbers

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1673 Man headed bear ape after Ogilby

1673 Man headed bear ape after Ogilby
Papio and man-headed beast. Published in Amsterdam in 1673 by Jacob Von Meurs for Arnoldus Montanus " De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld" after the first book related to America by Ogilby

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1824 Bucklands Megalosaurus first paper

1824 Bucklands Megalosaurus first paper
1824 First page (390) of William Bucklands " Notice on the Megalosaurus or great Fossil Lizard of Stonesfield". Transactions of the Geological Society of London, series 2, vol 1: 390 -396

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: Ichthyosaur skull and paddle Everard Home

Ichthyosaur skull and paddle Everard Home
Copperplate engraving from a paper in the Transactions of the Royal Philosophical society by Sir Everard Home describing the first ichthyosaur discoveries. See other photos in this collection

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: Cupped Ichthyosaur vertebra Everard Home

Cupped Ichthyosaur vertebra Everard Home
Ichthyosaur Verterbra copper plate illustration from a paper by Sir Everard Home in the Transactions of the Royal Philosophical Society

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1744 Deaths head hawkmoth by Rosenhoff

1744 Deaths head hawkmoth by Rosenhoff
1744 August Johann Roesel von Rosenhof copperplate art and engraving with his own handcolouring and plate correction. From " Der monatlich-herausgekommenen Insecten-Belustigungen Erste

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1662 Schott Demons

1662 Schott Demons
XXVI " Winged and horned monster resembling Cacus (the giant son of Vulcan), XXVII " Winged and clawed monster with a birds clawed foot"

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1770 Mstricht Mosasaur

1770 Mstricht Mosasaur
1798 Copperplate engraving map with its original handcolouring from Volume III of J.L Bertuchs " Bilderbuch fur Kinder". Mosasaur hoffmanii

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1731 Johann Scheuchzer Creation 4th day b

1731 Johann Scheuchzer Creation 4th day b
1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) the fourth day of creation, the sun and the moon, folio copper engraving (with later hand colouring)

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1731 Johann Scheuchzer Bible giraffe

1731 Johann Scheuchzer Bible giraffe
1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733), Dueteronomy, fanciful Giraffe and other horned animal representing cloven footed beasts (artiodactyla)

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: Sir Humphry Davy portrait chemis

Sir Humphry Davy portrait chemis
Sir Humphry Davy, British Chemist (17 December 1778 - 29 May 1829). Engraving by Scriven 1833 after painting by Lawrence c. 1821

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: Conybeare Plesiosaurus reconstruction

Conybeare Plesiosaurus reconstruction
1824 " On the Discovery of an almost perfect Skeleton of the Plesiosaurus" Transactions of the Geological Society, Second Series, Volume 1, page 381-390

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: Ichthyosaur skeleton engraving 1819 Home

Ichthyosaur skeleton engraving 1819 Home
First scientific illustration of a complete ichthyosaur skeleton. Copper fold-out engraving at life size, (2.5cm ammonite top right for scale). It comes from a paper by Sir Everard Home in 1819

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1806 Alexander Humboldt Naturalist

1806 Alexander Humboldt Naturalist
Friedrich Alexander von Humboldt (14th September 1769 - 6th May 1859). Lizars Steel engraving c 1830 with hand colouring after the 1806 painting by Friedrich Weitsch

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1650 Bishop Usher Portrait 4004BC

1650 Bishop Usher Portrait 4004BC
1650 Archbishop James Usher (Usser or Ussher). Theologian. 1670 copperplate engraved portrait printed in London for Nathan Ranew and Jonathon Robinson at the Kings Arms in St. Pauls Church Yard

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1662 Schott conjoined infants

1662 Schott conjoined infants
" Infants born conjoined" Copperplate from Gaspar Schotts Physica Curiosa, sive mirabilia naturae. Gaspar Schott was a Jesuit scholar (1608-1666)

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: First British Museum Mummy and coffin

First British Museum Mummy and coffin
Hand coloured engraving by George Vertue 1724 for the London Society of Antiquaries. It shows the mummified body in cartonage and hieroglyphic script on a Sarcophagus owned by William Lethieullier

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1809 Sir Joseph Banks Portrait botanist

1809 Sir Joseph Banks Portrait botanist
Sir Joseph Banks, botanist and naturalist. (13th February 1743 - 19th June 1820). Engraving by C.E. Wagstaff with later colouring

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1662 Schott birth defects, teratology

1662 Schott birth defects, teratology
XII " Infant whose arms are transposed", XIII " infant with deformed head", XIV " double bodied monster"

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1731 Johann Scheuchzer gravity comet

1731 Johann Scheuchzer gravity comet
1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) God " opening the windows of heaven", astronomical phenomenon showing orbits and gravitational effects on comets etc

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: Conybeare Plesiosaurus letter & portrait. Conybeare Plesiosaurus letter & portrait

Conybeare Plesiosaurus letter & portrait. Conybeare Plesiosaurus letter & portrait
Left: Portrait William Conybeare age 65. Right: 1824 letter from William Conybeares re his first scientific reconstruction of the skeletons of plesiosaur and ichthyosaur

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1682 Bible Hydra - Beast of Apocalypse CU

1682 Bible Hydra - Beast of Apocalypse CU
1682 Engraving Pieter van de Borcht from " Bybelsche figuuren". See Gessners hydra. Revelation (Apocalypse) CHAPTER 13 And I stood upon the sand of the sea

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1618 Francis Bacon Portrait Philosopher

1618 Francis Bacon Portrait Philosopher
Sir Francis Bacon British Scientist, Philosopher and Statesman (22 January 1561 - 9 April 1626). Steel engraving by Posselwaite appearing in " The Gallery of Portraits" 1837

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1731 Scheuchzer Creation 3rd day plants

1731 Scheuchzer Creation 3rd day plants
1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) folio copper engraving of the third day of creation (plants)

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1820 Jean Baptiste Lamarck old and blind

1820 Jean Baptiste Lamarck old and blind
Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1 August 1744 - 18 December 1829) portrait when old and blind. A later hand coloured frontis engraving by Lizars from his Cabinet Cyclopaedia series

Background imageImages Dated 21st February 2011: 1731 Scheuchzer Creation Adam & Eve 1731 Scheuchzer Creation Adam & Eve

1731 Scheuchzer Creation Adam & Eve 1731 Scheuchzer Creation Adam & Eve
1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) creation of Eve from Adams rib, folio copper engraving drawn by a team of engravers under the direction of Johann Andreas Pfeffel



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