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The life, letters and labours of Francis Galton / by Karl Pearson.

Scientists of the Austrian Empire at a large banquet in a tent, drinking a toast. Coloured lithograph by F. Wolf after J.N. Höchle, 1832.

Biographical memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society.

Scientists investigating the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

Darwin : "the descent of man".

A scientist using a steam machine with pulley to extract a tooth from a man. Pen drawing by C.E.H., 1894.

Three researchers outside the British experimental hut set up near Ostia to verify the mosquito-malaria theory. Coloured photograph of a pen drawing by A. Terzi, ca. 1900.

John Dalton shaking hands with Gerrit Moll, 1834, thanking him for defending British science. Coloured etching by Crichton.

Scientists experimenting with rats to investigate the plague. Drawing by A.L. Tarter, 194-.

Relationes (Shaker Verlag)

237 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm.

Lebendige Verbindungen : Biobibliographisches Lexikon der Biochemiker zwischen Deutschland und Russland im 19. Jahrhundert / Marta Fischer.

352 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm

Clas Alströmer : vetenskapsman, mecenat, patient / Gudrun Nyberg.

<p>This is the first in a series of three programmes which trace the image of the scientist, as portrayed in cinema. The màd scientist', working alone on crazy experiments has been an enduring cinematic image, from Fritz Lang's Mètropolis', to Eddy Murphy's crazy professor in T̀he Nutty Professor'. Includes clips from various films.</p>

Celluloid scientists, part 1. The mad scientist.

Forschen, Messen, Prüfen

xiii, 335 pages : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 22 cm.

Hermann von Helmholtz : Bilder seines Lebens und Wirkens / Helmut Rechenberg.

216 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Storia di uno scienziato : la collezione anatomica "Paolo Gorini" / a cura di Alberto Carli.

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Lebendige Verbindungen : Biobibliographisches Lexikon der Biochemiker zwischen Deutschland und Russland im 19. Jahrhundert / Marta Fischer.

Clas Alströmer : vetenskapsman, mecenat, patient / Gudrun Nyberg.

Celluloid scientists, part 1. The mad scientist.

Hermann von Helmholtz : Bilder seines Lebens und Wirkens / Helmut Rechenberg.

Storia di uno scienziato : la collezione anatomica "Paolo Gorini" / a cura di Alberto Carli.

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Lebendige Verbindungen : Biobibliographisches Lexikon der Biochemiker zwischen Deutschland und Russland im 19. Jahrhundert / Marta Fischer.

Clas Alströmer : vetenskapsman, mecenat, patient / Gudrun Nyberg.

Celluloid scientists, part 1. The mad scientist.

Hermann von Helmholtz : Bilder seines Lebens und Wirkens / Helmut Rechenberg.

Storia di uno scienziato : la collezione anatomica "Paolo Gorini" / a cura di Alberto Carli.

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