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Mathematics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedean_solid

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Pacioli/

https://www.storyofmathematics.com/19th_gauss.html/

https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Gauss/

 

Anatomy

https://www.auladeanatomia.com/en/anatomia/431/history-of-anatomy

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21509810/

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/r5gsqhwk/images?id=qcwk5am9

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mondino-de-Luzzi

 

Alchemy

https://www.mauritshuis.nl/ontdek-collectie/kunstwerken/261-de-alchemist/

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alchemist

https://www.worldhistory.org/Alchemy/

 

Osteology

http://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com/2021/05/science-is-measurement.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Science_is_measurement_Stacy_Marks.jpg

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/osteology

https://hart.amsterdam/nl/collectie/object/amcollect/38497

 

Geography

https://www.brainkart.com/article/Evolution-of-Geography_33738/#:~:text=The%20development%20of%20geography%20can,3)%20The%20period%20after%201950.&text=Geography%20had%20evolved%20over%20a%20long%20period%20of%20time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_cartography

https://www.thoughtco.com/alexander-von-humboldt-1435029

 

Astronomy

https://aeon.co/essays/how-european-sailors-learned-celestial-navigation

http://www.essentialvermeer.com/dutch-painters/dutch_art/leeuwenhoek.html

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/astronomer-by-candlelight-gerrit-dou/jgGoA4yy8adYug?hl=en

 

Bologna University

http://www.panopticondibologna.it/Luoghi/museo-medievale/Tombe%20dottori/tombe-dottori-.html

https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/iv1-lectures

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Bologna

https://historiana.eu/historical-content/source-collections/bologna-and-the-rise-of-medieval-universities

Oxford University

https://www.ox.ac.uk/

https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/oxford-people/Oxford-at-the-Olympics

https://www.ox.ac.uk/about/organisation/history

https://www.oxford-royale.com/articles/amazing-oxford-traditions/

https://artvee.com/dl/a-view-of-oxford/

 

Cambridge University

https://www.cambridgestudents.cam.ac.uk/degree-ceremonies/ceremony

https://www.cam.ac.uk/about-the-university/history/early-records

 

Salamanca University

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Salamanca

https://alumni.usal.es/en/comunidad/historia-de-la-usal/

https://www.acton.org/publications/transatlantic/2017/10/09/connection-between-columbus-day-and-school-salamanca

 

Sorbonne University

https://en.parisinfo.com/paris-museum-monument/72515/Chapelle-de-la-Sorbonne

https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/48631   

https://www.sorbonne-universite.fr/en#:~:text=By%20joining%20our%20community%20of,the%20best%20in%20multidisciplinary%20teaching.

 

Leiden University

http://nl.wikisage.org/wiki/Universiteit_Leiden

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2019/07/how-leiden-became-the-wonder-of-europe

https://www.wearefreemovers.com/universities/leiden-university/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiden_University_Library

 

Pythagoras

https://www.rct.uk/collection/403500/pythagoras-advocating-vegetarianism

https://compassionatespirit.com/wpblog/2022/04/04/fish-stories-about-pythagoras/

https://vegsoc.org/about-us/world-history-of-vegetarianism/

https://www.livescience.com/pythagoras

https://www.math.tamu.edu/~don.allen/history/pythag/pythag.html

 

Socrates

https://www.thecollector.com/alcibiades-general-and-lover

https://www.thecollector.com/what-is-plato-symposium-ancient-greek-socrates/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_problem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Socrates

http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-the-trial-and-death-of-socrates/#gsc.tab=0

Hippocrates

https://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2013/06/should-physicians-treat-their-enemies.html

https://www.getty.edu/news/exhibition-rubens-inspiration-ancient-greece-rome/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4263393/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19567383/

https://www.gavi.org/vaccineswork/funny-science-hippocratic-medicine-and-four-humours

 

Aristotle

https://smarthistory.org/rembrandt-aristotle-homer/

https://iep.utm.edu/aristotle/

https://www.worldhistory.org/aristotle/

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/365943?journalCode=cp

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/famous-paintings/school-of-athens.htm

 

Euclid

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Euclid-Greek-mathematician

https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/object/108GV4

https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/who-was-euclid

https://explorable.com/euclid

 

Archimedes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Archimedes

https://www.worldhistory.org/Archimedes/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Syracuse_(213%E2%80%93212_BC)

 

Aelius Galen

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/nyc53zq3

https://www.greece-is.com/a-meeting-of-the-minds-hippocrates-galen/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galen

Flavio Gioja

https://dbpedia.org/page/Flavio_Gioja

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/flavio-gioia-flavius-amalfitanus-in-his-study-using-the-magnetic-compass-126310

https://www.cabinet.ox.ac.uk/2-magnetic-compass

https://www.dalvey.com/ca/blog/the-history-of-the-compass

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1650_Jansson_Wind_Rose,_Anemographic_Chart,_or_Map_of_the_Winds_-_Geographicus_-_Anemographica-jannson-1650.jpg

 

Johannes Gutenberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press

https://www.livescience.com/43639-who-invented-the-printing-press.html

https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=280

https://random-treasure.com/2018/01/26/outmoded-but-not-quite-forgotten/

Leonardo da Vinci

https://innovation-entrepreneurship.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s13731-017-0077-9

https://artincontext.org/the-vitruvian-man-da-vinci/

https://www.da-vinci-inventions.com/

https://www.historyhit.com/leonardo-da-vincis-most-important-inventions/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leonardo-da-Vinci

 

Gabriel Fallopius

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/p5xz7f8s/images?id=q4x8hyas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriele_Falloppio

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29286023/

https://emh30.ace.fordham.edu/2018/12/06/syphilis-and-popular-renaissance-culture/

Nicolaus Copernicus

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferent_and_epicycle 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomer_Copernicus,_or_Conversations_with_God

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicolaus-Copernicus

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ptolemy

Andreas Vesalius

https://evolution.berkeley.edu/the-history-of-evolutionary-thought/pre-1800/comparative-anatomy-andreas-vesalius/

https://embryo.asu.edu/pages/andreas-vesalius-1514-1564

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/historicalanatomies/Images/1200_pixels/Vesalius_Pg_164.jpg

https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1002960

Gerard Mercator

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercator_projection

https://www.uu.nl/bijzondere-collecties/collecties/kaarten-en-atlassen/wereldkaarten-en-atlassen/de-atlas-van-mercator-en-hondius

https://www.uu.nl/en/special-collections/collections/maps-and-atlases/world-maps-and-atlases/the-world-atlas-by-ortelius

 

William Lee

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Lee

https://www.thehistoryofart.org/william-adolphe-bouguereau/knitting-girl/

https://www.makersmercantile.com/history-of-knitting-a-resource-guide.htm

 

William Gilbert

https://physicsworld.com/a/william-gilbert-forgotten-genius/#:~:text=Gilbert%20carried%20out%20many%20other,cosmology%20of%20the%20rotating%20Earth.

https://www.studysmarter.us/explanations/history/elizabethan-era/queen-elizabeth-i/

https://www.new-science-theory.com/william-gilbert.php

 

Galileo Galilei

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei/Telescopic-discoveries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Galileo-Galilei

https://www.theflorentine.net/2017/12/04/john-milton-florence-italy/

 

William Harvey

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/wkue7n2w

https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Harvey

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15365594/

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/skj2d74p/images?id=jwpexqb8

 

René Descartes

http://www.cachecoins.org/christina_sweden.htm

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/descartes/

https://talonbooks.com/meta-talon/a-scene-queen-christina-and-descartes-on-love

 

Evalngelista Torricelli

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/repairing-the-barometer-201955

https://www.softschools.com/inventions/history/barometer_history/20/

https://study.com/learn/lesson/what-is-a-barometer-function-history-uses.html

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0980-5#:~:text=Humboldt’s%20vision%20was%20that%20everything,1).

Robert Boyle and Otto von Guericke

https://www.britannica.com/technology/air-pump

http://physicsexperiments.eu/4304/magdeburg-hemispheres

https://sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/pumped-up/

https://targetstudy.com/knowledge/invention/33/air-pump.html

Blaise Pascal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_law

https://iep.utm.edu/pascal-b/

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/zpgq8m6z/images?id=pa89ty8v

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/when-blaise-pascal-met-rene-descartes-1337242.html

 

Robert Hooke

https://theconversation.com/the-mystery-of-the-missing-portrait-of-robert-hooke-17th-century-scientist-extraordinaire-141681

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Hooke

https://www.london-fire.gov.uk/museum/history-and-stories/the-great-fire-of-london/

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/robert-hooke-rebuilding-london-after-great-fire

Christiaan Huygens

https://revolutionwatch.com/watches-in-art/

https://www.thoughtco.com/clock-and-calendar-history-1991475

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_timekeeping_devices

https://www.thehistoryofart.org/william-hogarth/miss-mary-edwards/

https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.32682.html

 

Isaac Newton

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/master-isaac-newton-in-his-garden-at-woolsthorpe-in-the-autumn-of-1665-216055

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isaac-Newton

https://www.biography.com/scientists/isaac-newton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon

Maria Sybilla Merian

https://www.botanicalartandartists.com/about-maria-sibylla-merian.html

https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1036&context=biofac

https://wams.nyhistory.org/early-encounters/dutch-colonies/maria-sibylla-merian/

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/v7rv44en/images?id=her9bevg

https://www.micropia.nl/nl/

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoni_van_Leeuwenhoek

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Simarro_Lacabra

 

Edmond Halley

https://www.rct.uk/collection/407176/the-eve-of-the-deluge

https://www.rocketstem.org/2020/12/12/ice-and-stone-comet-of-week-51/

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/magnetic-mr-halley

https://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/89322/edmund-halleys-meteorologicalastronomical-winds-chart-halley

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halley%27s_Comet

 

John Hadley and Thomas Godfrey

https://www.mat.uc.pt/~helios/Mestre/Novemb00/H61iflan.htm

https://vanislemarina.com/the-sextant-a-celestial-navigation-tool/

https://oceannavigator.com/who-really-invented-the-sextant/

https://oceannavigator.com/who-really-invented-the-sextant/

 

Benjamin Franklin

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/franklin-flies-kite-during-thunderstorm#:~:text=On%20June%2010%2C%201752%2C%20Benjamin,connection%20between%20lightning%20and%20electricity.

https://philamuseum.org/collection/object/57044

http://www.benjamin-franklin-history.org/benjamin-franklin/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Franklin

James Watt

https://www.britannica.com/technology/energy-conversion/Developments-of-the-Industrial-Revolution#ref45925

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Eckford_Lauder

https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/james-eckford-lauder

https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Watt

https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-fmcc-worldcivilization2-1/chapter/steam-power/

Luigi Galvani

https://nationalmaglab.org/magnet-academy/history-of-electricity-magnetism/pioneers/luigi-galvani/

http://himetop.wikidot.com/luigi-galvani-esperimenti-sulla-rana-1862-by-a-muzzi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Galvani

Andrew Meikle

https://www.vita-romae.com/ancient-roman-mills.html

http://www.edubilla.com/invention/threshing-machine/

https://rootsofprogress.org/why-did-we-wait-so-long-for-the-threshing-machine

https://engineeringhalloffame.org/profile/andrew-meikle

Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgolfier_brothers

https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/joseph-michel-and-jacques-etienne-montgolfier

https://en.chateauversailles.fr/discover/history/key-dates/first-hot-air-balloon-flight

https://www.space.com/16595-montgolfiers-first-balloon-flight.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Gambetta

Edward Jenner

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/nydcz5uy/images?id=jjcjzgku

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/smallpox/sp_variolation.html

https://www.who.int/news-room/spotlight/history-of-vaccination

https://muslimheritage.com/lady-mary-wortley-montagu-and-the-introduction-of-smallpox-vaccination-to-england/

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/28456/28456-h/28456-h.htm#page263

Alessandro Volta

https://www.antichitafiorio.com/alessandro-volta-scienziato-modernoloredana-carena

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alessandro-Volta

https://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/itineraries/biography/AlessandroVolta.html

https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k716466w

Robert Fulton

https://www.flickr.com/photos/boston_public_library/4012050685/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Fulton-American-inventor

https://study.com/learn/lesson/robert-fulton-biography-invention-steamboat.html

https://www.encyclopedia.com/people/science-and-technology/technology-biographies/robert-fulton

Antoine and Marie Anne Lavoisier

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Lavoisier

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jldv/hd_jldv.htm

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Antoine-Lavoisier

https://www.acs.org/education/whatischemistry/landmarks/lavoisier.html

 

René Laennec

https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/110/1/9/2631738

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1570491/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necker%E2%80%93Enfants_Malades_Hospital#History

 

William Henry Fox Talbot, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre 

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tlbt/hd_tlbt.htm

https://upagallery.com/alternative-process/2014724photographys-parallel-histories/

https://www.academia.edu/37589428/Replacing_History_William_Henry_Fox_Talbot_In_Camera

https://eclecticlight.co/2018/02/09/the-tables-turned-painters-paint-photographers/

 

Michael Faraday

https://www.powermag.com/history-of-power-the-evolution-of-the-electric-generation-industry/

https://study.com/learn/lesson/michael-faraday-inventions-discoveries.html

https://www.rigb.org/explore-science/explore/collection/michael-faradays-generator

https://homlib.wordpress.com/2018/12/07/faraday-and-the-christmas-lectures-the-chemical-history-of-a-candle/

Ada Lovelace

https://www.britannica.com/technology/digital-computer

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Babbage

https://www.mpg.de/female-pioneers-of-science/Ada-Lovelace

Charles Darwin

https://www.literature.org/authors/darwin-charles/the-voyage-of-the-beagle/chapter-10.html

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/hms-beagle-darwins-trip-around-world/

https://nomadict.org/how-tierra-del-fuego-shaped-our-early-thoughts-about-human-evolution/#:~:text=The%20HMS%20Beagle%2C%20approximately%20after,potential%20for%20improvement%20towards%20civilization.

 

William Morton

https://www.massgeneral.org/anesthesia/news/ether-175#:~:text=On%20October%2016%2C%201846%2C%20the,Building%20at%20Massachusetts%20General%20Hospital.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK481552/#:~:text=Before%20the%20advent%20of%20anaesthetics,of%20dispassion%20and%20emotional%20detachment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_T._G._Morton

 

Pierre Pelletier and Joseph Caventou

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK481422/ 

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/xhfb4nab

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/nursing-and-health-professions/quinine

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36410328/

Samuel Morse

https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.65.60

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/men-of-progress-christian-schussele/RgEfRXyGyDY8EQ?hl=en

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-F-B-Morse

http://www.samuelmorse.net/

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Baron-Kelvin-Of-Largs/

https://digital.nls.uk/scientists/biographies/lord-kelvin/discoveries.html

https://nationalmaglab.org/magnet-academy/history-of-electricity-magnetism/pioneers/william-thomson-lord-kelvin/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/lord-kelvin-1907-12-28/

https://atlantic-cable.com/CablePioneers/Kelvin/

 

Ignaz Semmelweis and Joseph Lister

https://www.theconflictjourney.com/2015/05/15/38-dr-semmelweis-conflict/

https://www.pastmedicalhistory.co.uk/ignaz-semmelweis-the-saviour-of-mothers/

https://jade-lennon.medium.com/why-dr-semmelweis-lost-his-mind-cc23f95821a3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Lister

Gregor Mendel

https://www.tutorialspoint.com/mendelian-inheritance-using-seeds-of-different-colours-sizes-of-any-plant

https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/gregor-mendel-and-the-principles-of-inheritance-593/#:~:text=Mendel%20tested%20this%20idea%20of,1%20generation%20for%20the%20experiment.

https://www2.edc.org/weblabs/mendel/mendelsTeacherManual.html

Louis Pasteur

http://daredart.blogspot.com/p/albert-edelfelt-portrait-de-louis.html

https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/transmission/body.html

https://sciencehistory.org/education/scientific-biographies/louis-pasteur/

Dmitri Mendeleev

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/big-history-project/stars-and-elements/knowing-stars-elements/a/dmitri-mendeleev

https://www.newscientist.com/people/dmitri-mendeleev/

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/periodic-table-history-chemical-elements-150-anniversary

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri_Mendeleev

Karl Benz and Henry Ford

https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/carl-benz

https://corporate.ford.com/articles/history/the-model-t.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/1920s-america/a/1920s-consumption

https://amananjay.medium.com/how-henry-ford-revolutionized-the-assembly-line-a909152133a3

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramon_Casas_and_Pere_Romeu_in_an_Automobile

Thomas Edison

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Barraud

https://www.si.edu/object/thomas-alva-edison%3Anpg_NPG.65.23

https://www.canterburymuseum.com/explore/our-stories/his-masters-voice

https://www.loc.gov/collections/edison-company-motion-pictures-and-sound-recordings/articles-and-essays/history-of-edison-sound-recordings/history-of-the-cylinder-phonograph/

 

Aimé Argand and Thomas Edison

https://www.norwegianamerican.com/harriet-backer-a-gifted-determined-artist/

https://www.fi.edu/en/history-resources/edisons-lightbulb#:~:text=By%20January%201879%2C%20at%20his,for%20a%20few%20short%20hours.

https://www.energy.gov/articles/history-light-bulb

https://www.history.com/news/when-edison-turned-night-into-day

 

Guglielmo Marconi

https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/guglielmo-marconi

https://study.com/learn/lesson/guglielmo-marconi-inventions-biography-radio.html

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1909/marconi/facts/

 

Alexander Graham Bell

https://lettersofnote.com/2023/03/10/mr-watson-come-here-i-want-to-see-you/#:~:text=On%20March%2010th%2C%201876%2C%20still,to%20his%20father%20hours%20later.

https://www.vice.com/de/article/a37dxe/seht-ihr-in-diesem-gemalde-von-1860-auch-eine-frau-die-ein-iphone-halt

http://www.telcomhistory.org/resources/online-exhibits/telephone-company-histories/

https://historyofcomputercommunications.info/section/2.6/alexander-graham-bell-and-bell-telephone-co.-1873-1878/

Marie Curie

https://www.britannica.com/video/201446/World-War-I-Marie-Curie-labs-fleet

https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/marie-curie

https://history.aip.org/exhibits/curie/unstable.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Prize#Family_laureates

 

Wilhelm Röntgen

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200111/history.cfm

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1901/perspectives/

https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/science/physics/wilhelm-rontgen-and-the-rays-that-changed-our-view-of-the-world/

Wright brothers and Alberto Santos Dumont

https://www.greekmyths-greekmythology.com/myth-of-daedalus-and-icarus/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airmail

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers

https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/1903-wright-flyer/nasm_A19610048000

https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200407/history.cfm

https://econterms.net/aero/Alberto_Santos-Dumont

Alexander Fleming

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1945/fleming/biographical/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alexander-Fleming

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/209536

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4520913/

 

Marco Polo

https://gohighbrow.com/marco-polo-1254-1324/

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/big-history-project/expansion-interconnection/exploration-interconnection/a/marco-polo

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marco-Polo

https://www.livescience.com/27513-marco-polo.html

 

Cristopher Columbus

https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/fbb06e57-759f-43c2-bf3b-792cee697ee2/external_content.pdf

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3818081

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/columbus-sets-sail/

https://academic.oup.com/book/36754/chapter-abstract/321855123?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

https://www.sartle.com/artwork/the-return-of-christopher-columbus-eugene-delacroix

https://www.sartle.com/artwork/columbus-before-the-queen-emanuel-leutze

Vasco da Gama

https://www.studysmarter.co.uk/explanations/history/modern-world-history/portuguese-east-indies/

https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_2021-11-15_151046.html

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/2025/the-portuguese-conquest-of-india/

Da Gama’s Blundering: Trade Encounters in Africa and Asia during the European ‘Age of Discovery,’ 1450-1520

Robert S. Wolff

Ferdinand Magellan


https://www.zvab.com/karten/DISCOVERY-STRAITS-MAGELLAN-1520%C2%92-Fernando-Magellanes/11581326454/bd#&gid=1&pid=1

https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Strait_of_Magellan

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdinand-Magellan

Robert Wood and James Dawkins

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsnr.2015.0059#:~:text=In%20fact%2C%20since%20Pliny’s%20Naturalis,members%20of%20the%20Royal%20Society.

https://www.19thcenturyart-facos.com/artwork/wood-and-dawkins-discovering-palmyra

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/23/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zenobia

James Cook

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Endeavour#Outward_voyage

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/hms-endeavour-250.html

https://academic-accelerator.com/encyclopedia/first-voyage-of-james-cook

https://www.bl.uk/the-voyages-of-captain-james-cook/articles/the-third-voyage-of-james-cook

 

David Livingstone

https://www.bu.edu/missiology/missionary-biography/l-m/livingstone-david-1813-1873/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Livingstone

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/05/27/they-found-source-nile-became-lifelong-enemies/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/henry-morton-stanleys-unbreakable-will-99405/

https://www.history.com/news/when-stanley-met-livingstone

 

The Windmill

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical-axis_wind_turbine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panemone_windmill

https://www.molens.nl/ontdek-molens/soorten-molens

http://www.artweekenders.com/europe/the-netherlands/zaanstad/zaanse-schans-windmills-dutch-art/

 

Glass Blowing

https://www.britannica.com/technology/glassblowing

https://mymodernmet.com/history-of-glass-making/

https://europeforvisitors.com/venice/articles/murano_the_glass_island.htm

 

Spectacles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visby_lenses#:~:text=The%20Visby%20lenses%20are%20a,the%2011th%20or%2012th%20century.

https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommaso_da_Modena

https://www.scribd.com/document/84929847/Pinhole-Glasses

Gunpowder and Dynamite

https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/gunpowder-plot-what-history-behind-bonfire-night#:~:text=The%20Gunpowder%20Plot%20was%20a,establish%20Catholic%20rule%20in%20England.

https://www.history.com/topics/european-history/gunpowder-plot

https://www.britannica.com/technology/gunpowder

https://www.nobelprize.org/alfred-nobel/nitroglycerine-and-dynamite/

 

The Plough

https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-the-plow-1992324#:~:text=Charles%20Newbold%20and%20David%20Peacock,plow%20in%20June%20of%201797.

https://interestingengineering.com/lists/ancient-egyptian-technology-and-inventions

https://www.nms.ac.uk/explore-our-collections/stories/science-and-technology/ploughs/#:~:text=The%20Rotherham%20plough%20was%20handled,reducing%20the%20cost%20for%20farmers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ploughing_in_the_Nivernais

 

Blood Transfusion

https://nyamcenterforhistory.org/tag/blood-transfusion/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Blundell_%28physician%29

https://www.the-scientist.com/reading-frames/opinion-what-the-history-of-blood-transfusion-reveals-about-risk-69105

 

The Thermometer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctor_%28painting%29

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4586218/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria

https://time.com/6053214/thermometer-history/

The Bicycle

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Londonderry

http://www.bicyclehistory.net/bicycle-history/history-of-bicycle/

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/the-invention-of-the-bicycle-inpi/mwXRBYATtgPOLg?hl=en

https://evelo.com/pages/history-of-the-bicycle

The Steam Locomotive

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_locomotive

https://www.christies.com/features/Steam-trains-in-art-10279-1.aspx#:~:text=It%20didn’t%20take%20British,with%20sentiment%20and%20picaresque%20comedy.

https://www.railwaymuseum.org.uk/node/13296

https://heritage.stockton.gov.uk/articles/stories/stockton-where-passenger-railways-began/

Tulip Mania

https://www.mauritshuis.nl/ontdek-collectie/kunstwerken/146-de-anatomische-les-van-dr-nicolaes-tulp/

http://drtulp.nl/history-of-dr-tulp/

https://www.beursgeschiedenis.nl/en/moment/first-rules-for-share-trading/

 

The Philosopher’s Stone

https://www.greeka.com/greece-myths/king-midas/

https://www.theoi.com/articles/important-facts-about-king-midas-daughter-marigold/

 https://www.revolutionaryplayers.org.uk/the-alchymist-in-search-of-the-philosophers-stone-exhibited-1771/

https://www.derbymuseums.org/collection/joseph-wright-of-derby/

https://www.britannica.com/topic/philosophers-stone

 

First Academic Societies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Academy_of_Sciences

https://www.rct.uk/collection/400747/the-academicians-of-the-royal-academy

https://www.reseau-canope.fr/docsciences/Colbert-presente-a-Louis-XIV-les.html

https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/2004ESASP1278..157V/0000160.000.html

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/meet-the-founders-of-the-royal-academy/GQXRdnTqXTAJIg

https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/the-royal-academicians-in-general-assembly-1

 

The Orrery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Philosopher_Lecturing_on_the_Orrery

https://encyclopedia.pub/entry/32948

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonia_Macrocosmica

 

Railroad Construction

https://archive.org/details/russia00dobsrich/page/314/mode/1up?view=theater

https://www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/14765661255/

https://www.american-rails.com/crpcf.html

https://railroad.lindahall.org/essays/brief-history.html

http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/1801-1900/the-iron-horse/the-central-pacific-and-union-pacific-railroads.php

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Siberian_Railway

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Trans-Siberian-Railroad

 

Bloodletting

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/qu34g4zt

https://www.skillsplatform.org/blog/a-brief-history-of-phlebotomy/

https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/master-paintings-part-i-n09302/lot.58.html

https://constitutioncenter.org/blog/the-mysterious-death-of-george-washington#:~:text=That%20night%2C%20Washington%20woke%20his,blood%20loss%20of%2040%20percent.

 

The American Medical Association

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/portrait-of-dr-samuel-d-gross-the-gross-clinic/tQFcdDEg20osqg?hl=en-GB

https://journals.lww.com/aosopen/fulltext/2022/03000/the_history_of_surgical_education_in_the_united.38.aspx

 

Red Cross

https://www.icrc.org/en/doc/resources/documents/misc/57jnvq.htm

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1901/dunant/biographical/

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henri-Dunant

 

Fraud in Science

https://gslpicturelibrary.org.uk/discussion-on-the-piltdown-skull/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/solving-the-piltdown-man-scientific-fraud/

Quackery: A Brief History of Quack Medicines & Peddlers

 

The Tranatlantic cable

https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-14853

https://ethw.org/Transatlantic_Cable?gclid=Cj0KCQjwwISlBhD6ARIsAESAmp7-SAOEeW-soPNTX9KPE3pReDStFU_nSbX3mr0L-E8C88rWt3BVv3waAgBUEALw_wcB

https://www.britannica.com/technology/transatlantic-cable 

https://ethw.org/Milestones:Landing_of_the_Transatlantic_Cable,_1866

Science and religion

https://useum.org/artwork/Philosophy-and-Christian-Art-Daniel-Huntington

https://biologos.org/common-questions/are-science-and-christianity-at-war

https://collections.lacma.org/node/236746

 

Mathematics

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pacioli.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carl_Friedrich_Gauss.jpg

 

Anatomy

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mundinus_V0018153.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vesalius_Fabrica_fronticepiece.jpg

 

Alchemy

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_alchemist,_by_David_Teniers_(II).jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:L%27alchimiste_-_David_Teniers_the_Younger.png

 

Osteology

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nicolaes_Eliasz._Pickenoy_The_Osteology_Lesson_of_Dr._Sebastiaen_Egbertsz.jpg

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Science_is_measurement_Stacy_Marks.jpg

 

Geography

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johannes_Vermeer_-_The_Geographer_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Eratosthenes_Teaching_in_Alexandria_%28Bernardo_Strozzi,_Montreal%29.jpg

 

Astronomy

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Johannes_Vermeer_-_The_Astronomer_-_WGA24685.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dou_Astronomer-by-candlelight.jpg

 

Bologna University

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laurentius_de_Voltolina_001.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universit%C3%A4t_Bologna_Deutsche_Nation.jpg

 

Oxford University

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Turner_of_Oxford_-_A_View_of_Oxford_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:High_Street,_Oxford_(painting),_by_Turner_(1810)_crop.jpg

 

Cambridge University

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clare_Hall,_Turner_1793.jpeg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Westall_%281781-1850%29_-_King%27s_College_and_Clare_College,_Cambridge,_from_the_River_Cam_-_515481_-_National_Trust.jpg

 

Salamanca University

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Class_at_Salamanca.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Christophe_Colomb_devant_le_conseil_de_Salamanque_-_Emanuel_Leutze_-_MBA_Lyon_2014.jpg

 

Sorbonne University

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Richelieu_examinant_les_plans_de_la_Sorbonne,_Marcel_Baschet.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meeting_of_doctors_at_the_university_of_Paris.jpg

 

Leiden University

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leiden_1610.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_graduation_ceremony_at_Leiden_University_about_1650,_by_Hendrick_van_der_Burgh.jpg

 

Pythagoras

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sir_Peter_Paul_Rubens_%28Siegen_1577_-_Antwerp_1640%29_%5E_Frans_Snyders_%28Antwerp_1579_-_Antwerp_1657%29_-_Pythagoras_Advocating_Vegetarianism_-_RCIN_403500_-_Royal_Collection.jpg

 

Socrates

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alcibades_being_taught_by_Socrates,_Fran%C3%A7ois-Andr%C3%A9_Vincent.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Death_of_Socrates_MET_DT40.jpg

 

Hippocrates

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hippocrate_refusant_les_pr%C3%A9sents_d%27Artaxerx%C3%A8s_(original).JPG

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hippocrates_rubens.jpg

 

Aristotle

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rembrandt_-_Aristotle_with_a_Bust_of_Homer_-_WGA19232.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22The_School_of_Athens%22_by_Raffaello_Sanzio_da_Urbino.jpg

 

Euclid

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jusepe_de_Ribera_-_Euclid_-_2001.26_-_J._Paul_Getty_Museum.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domenico_Marol%C3%AC_-_Euclid_of_Megara.jpg

 

Archimedes

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Death_of_Archimedes_(1815)_by_Thomas_Degeorge.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Domenico-Fetti_Archimedes_1620.jpg

 

Aelius Galen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippocrates#/media/File:Galenoghippokrates.jpg

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/nyc53zq3

 

Flavio Gioja

https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/flavio-gioia-flavius-amalfitanus-in-his-study-using-the-magnetic-compass-126310

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1650_Jansson_Wind_Rose,_Anemographic_Chart,_or_Map_of_the_Winds_-_Geographicus_-_Anemographica-jannson-1650.jpg

 

Johannes Gutenberg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Caxton_Showing_the_First_Specimen_of_His_Printing_to_King_Edward_IV_at_the_Almonry,_Westminster.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:De_uitvinding_van_de_boekdrukkunst,_Corneille_Seghers,_schilderij,_Museum_Plantin-Moretus_%28Antwerpen%29_-_MPM_V_IV_083.jpg

 

Leonardo da Vinci

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leonardo_retrata_a_la_Gioconda,_por_Cesare_Maccari.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Da_Vinci_Vitruve_Luc_Viatour.jpg

 

Gabriel Fallopius

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Gabriel_Falloppius_explaining_one_of_his_discoveries_to_the_Wellcome_V0017858.jpg 

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%BCrerSyphilis1496.jpg?uselang=de

 

Nicolaus Copernicus

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Matejko-Astronomer_Copernicus-Conversation_with_God.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ptolemy_1476_with_armillary_sphere_model.jpg

 

Andreas Vesalius

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andre_Vesale_(Boston_Public_Library).jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vesalius-copy.jpg

 

Gerard Mercator

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gerardo_Mercatore_-_Gerardus_Mercator.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Bellemans_-_Mercator_And_Ortelius.jpg

 

William Lee

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Knitting_Woman_painting_by_William-Adolphe_Bouguereau.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:KnittingMadonna.jpg

 

William Gilbert

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Gilbert_demonstrating_the_magnet_before_Queen_Elizab_Wellcome_V0018144.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glindoni_John_Dee_performing_an_experiment_before_Queen_Elizabeth_I.jpg

 

Galileo Galilei

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galileo_before_the_Holy_Office_-_Joseph-Nicolas_Robert-Fleury,_1847.png

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Milton_visiting_Galileo_when_a_prisoner_of_the_Inquisition._Wellcome_L0025611.jpg

 

William Harvey

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Harvey_demonstrating_his_theory_of_circulation_of_Wellcome_V0018138.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:William_Harvey_(1578-1657)_Venenbild.jpg

 

René Descartes

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frans_Hals_-_Portret_van_Ren%C3%A9_Descartes.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dispute_of_Queen_Cristina_Vasa_and_Rene_Descartes.png

 

Evangelista Torricelli

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evangelista_Torricelli_by_Lorenzo_Lippi_(circa_1647,_Galleria_Silvano_Lodi_%26_Due).jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alexander_von_Humboldt_and_Mother.jpg

 

Robert Boyle and Otto von Guericke

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:An_Experiment_on_a_Bird_in_an_Air_Pump_by_Joseph_Wright_of_Derby,_1768.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Shannon_Portrait_of_the_Hon_Robert_Boyle.jpg

 

 

Blaise Pascal

https://wellcomecollection.org/works/zpgq8m6z

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sc%C3%A8ne_repr%C3%A9sentant_Pascal_en_compagnie_de_D%C3%A9sargues_et_du_P%C3%A8re_Mersenne,_place_Royale,_en_1643.jpg

 

Robert Hooke

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_a_Mathematician_1680c.jpg?uselang=fr

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Fire_London.jpg

 

Christiaan Huygens

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Family_Portrait_A12444.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miss_Mary_Edwards_-_Hogarth_1742.jpg

 

Isaac Newton

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Newton-WilliamBlake.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pelagio_Palagi_-_Newton%27s_Discovery_of_the_Refraction_of_Light_-_WGA16864.jpg

 

Maria Sybilla Merian

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bildnis_der_Maria_Sibylla_Merian,_1679.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maria_Sibylla_Merian-Metamorphosis-Uni_bib_Utrecht_MAG_AB_352_Rariora_11.jpg

 

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Leeuwenhoek_with_his_microscope._Oil_painting_by_Ernest_Boar_Wellcome_V0018134.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Dr_Simarro_at_the_microscope.JPG

 

Edmond Halley

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lieve_Verschuier_-_Staartster_(komeet)_boven_Rotterdam_-_11028-A-B_-_Museum_Rotterdam.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Martin_-_The_Eve_of_the_Deluge_-_WGA14146.jpg

 

John Hadley, Thomas Godfrey

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pietro_Narducci,_Ritratto_di_Barnaba_Oriani,_1830.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WinslowHomer-Eight_Bells_1886.jpg

 

Benjamin Franklin

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Benjamin_West,_English_(born_America)_-_Benjamin_Franklin_Drawing_Electricity_from_the_Sky_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

https://www.pafa.org/museum/collection/item/benjamin-franklin

 

James Watt

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Eckford_Lauder_-_James_Watt_and_the_Steam_Engine-_the_Dawn_of_the_Nineteenth_Century_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:T1-_d091_-_James_Watt_-_perfectionnement_de_la_machine_de_Newcomen.png

 

Luigi Galvani

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antonio_Muzzi,_Luigi_Galvani_compie_esperimenti_con_la_macchina_elettrostatica_alla_presenza_dei_familiari,_1862.png?uselang=nl

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Galvani-frogs-legs-electricity.jpg

 

The Treshing Machine

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pierre-Auguste_Renoir_-_Les_Moissonneurs.jpg?uselang=fr

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Peter_DeWint_-_Threshing_Corn_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

 

Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier

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Edward Jenner

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Melingue_Jenner.jpg

 

Alessandro Volta

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_pile_de_Volta_(Le_Petit_journal).jpg

 

Robert Fulton

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Antoine and Marie Anne Lavoisier

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Langenmantel_Lavoisiers_Verhaftung.jpg

 

René Laennec

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:La_Premiere_auscultation_LACMA_M.80.277.91.jpg

 

William Henry Fox Talbot, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre 

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Michael Faraday

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M_Faraday_Lab_H_Moore.jpg

 

Ada Lovelace

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_(English)_School_-_Charles_Babbage_(1792%E2%80%931871)_-_814168_-_National_Trust.jpg

 

Charles Darwin

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HMS_Beagle_by_Conrad_Martens.jpg

 

William Morton

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ether_Day,_or_The_First_Operation_with_Ether_by_Robert_C._Hinckley.jpg

 

Pierre Pelletier and Joseph Caventou

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernest_H%C3%A9bert_-_The_Mal%27aria_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

 

Samuel Morse

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gallery_of_the_Louvre_1831-33_Samuel_MorseFXD.jpg

 

William Thomson, Lord Kelvin

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_King_(1818-1896)_-_William_Thomson,_Baron_Kelvin_-_NPG_1708_-_National_Portrait_Gallery.jpg

 

Ignaz Semmelweis and Joseph Lister

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Than_M%C3%B3r_Semmelweis_Ign%C3%A1c.png

 

Gregor Mendel

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Gregor_Johann_Mendel_by_Daniel_J._Fairbanks.jpg

 

Louis Pasteur

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_de_Vos_-_The_Leopard_Hunt_-_WGA25326.jpg

Dmitri Mendeleev

Dmitri Mendeleev at the working desk, 1886 Nikoli Yareshenko

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Karl Benz and Henry Ford

https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.87.186

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ramon_Casas_-_Ramon_Casas_and_Pere_Romeu_in_an_Automobile_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

 

Thomas Edison

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:His_Master%27s_Voice.jpg

 

Aimé Argand and Thomas Edison

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Peale_by_Charles_Wilson_Peale.jpg

 

Guglielmo Marconi

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https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjh/s13129-021-00021-w#ref-CR31

 

Alexander Bell

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ferdinand_Georg_Waldm%C3%BCller_-_Die_Erwartete.jpg

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Marie Curie

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https://www.pavelsokov.com/workszoom/3376701/marie-skand322odowska-curie#/

 

Wilhelm Röntgen

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:W._C._Roentgen,_professor_of_physics_at_Giessen,_Wuerzburg_a_Wellcome_V0005058.jpg

 

Wright brothers and Alberto Santos

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Alexander Fleming

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Antoine-Jean_Gros_-_Bonaparte_visitant_les_pestif%C3%A9r%C3%A9s_de_Jaffa.jpg

 

Marco Polo

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Cristopher Columbus

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Vasco da Gama

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Ferdinand Magellan

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Robert Wood and James Dawkins

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gavin_Hamilton_(1723-1798)_-_James_Dawkins_and_Robert_Wood_Discovering_the_Ruins_of_Palmyra_-_NG_2666_-_National_Galleries_of_Scotland.jpg

 

James Cook

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David Livingstone

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Henry_Morton_Stanley_and_David_Livingstone_on_the_River_Ruzi_Wellcome_V0018843.jpg

 

The Windmill

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Mill.jpg

 

Glass Blowing

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Frederic_Ulrich_-glass_blowers_of_Murano.jpg

 

Spectacles

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Friedrich_Herlin,_Reading_Saint_Peter_(1466).jpg

 

Gunpowder plot and dynamite

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guy_fawkes_henry_perronet_briggs.jpg

 

The Plough

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rosa_Bonheur_-_Ploughing_in_Nevers_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

 

Blood Transfusion

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:James_Blundell_(physician).jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blundell%27s_method_of_blood_transfusion_Wellcome_M0014653.jpg

 

Thermometer

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Michael_Ancher,_Den_syge_pige,_1882,_KMS4002,_Statens_Museum_for_Kunst.jpg

 

The Bicycle

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hy_Sandham,_Bicycling,_1887.jpg

 

The Steam Locomotive

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Turner_-_Rain,_Steam_and_Speed_-_National_Gallery_file.jpg

 

Tulip Mania

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Brueghel_the_Younger,_Satire_on_Tulip_Mania,_c._1640.jpg

 

Philosopher’s stone

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Midas_gold2.jpg

 

The First Academic Societies

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The Orrery

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wright_of_Derby,_The_Orrery.jpg

 

Railroad Construction

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Bloodletting

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jacob_Franszn_%28ca_1635-1708%29_and_family_in_his_barber-surgeon_shop,_by_Egbert_van_Heemskerck_%28ca_1634_-_1704%29.jpg

 

American Medical Association

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Agnew_Clinic_-_Thomas_Eakins.jpg

 

Red Cross

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:World_War_I;_The_Red_Cross_in_the_trenches._Oil_painting_by_Wellcome_V0018242.jpg

 

Fraud in Science

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Steen_-_Village_Quack_before_an_Inn.jpg

 

Transatlantic cable

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/policies-and-documents/open-access

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantic_Cable_Expedition_July_28_1866,_S.S._%27Gt._Eastern%27_at_Mark_Buoy_preparing_to_land_the_shore_end_cable_at_%27Heart%27s_Content%27.jpg

 

Science and Religion

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