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  • Mathematicians and astronomers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Mathematicians: Ptolemy, Pythagoras, Euclid, Nicomachus, Aristoxenus and Iamblichus. Engraving after J. van Steegeren, 1667 or 1668.
  • An archangel revealing the physical nature of the universe to a group of natural philosophers and mathematicians. Etching by James Barry, 1795, after his painting.
  • Astronomy: two rival mathematicians, Urinaal and Raasbollius, argue about models of the solar system. Engraving by P. Tanjé, 1758, after C. Troost, 1741, after by P. Langendijk, 1715.
  • Robert Recorde; mathematician.
  • Portrait of Dominique Francois Jean Arago, mathematician.
  • Caramuel de Lobkowitz, J. , Spanish mathematician.
  • A mathematician, using dividers to measure a diagram on a piece of paper. Engraving.
  • An unidentified Persian astrologer or mathematician. Gouache painting by a Persian artist, Qajar period.
  • M0001313: Profile portrait of Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774), French explorer, geographer, and mathematician
  • M0001313: Profile portrait of Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774), French explorer, geographer, and mathematician
  • M0001313: Profile portrait of Charles Marie de La Condamine (1701-1774), French explorer, geographer, and mathematician
  • A mathematician using dividers to draw geometrical shapes on a tablet. Engraving by N. Cavalli after G.B. Piazzetta.
  • A mathematician draws a semi-circle while Minerva watches over him. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1591, after M. de Vos.
  • Li Chunfeng, the Chinese mathematician, astrologer and cosmologist, wearing traditional costume, holding the 'Eight Trigrams' symbol incorporating the 'Yin-yang' symbol. Watercolour, China, 18--.
  • A mathematician standing before a blackboard, on which he has drawn a diagram. Engraving by I.S. Klauber after Le Fort after F. Bol.
  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.
  • A young man seated, holding a book and a pair of dividers, two older men standing, the eldest also holding dividers. Engraving by W. Ungher after Giorgione, c.1508.
  • Portrait of Euclid, in oval cartouche on pedestal
  • A middle-aged man giving a geometry lesson to young woman, a young man [her suitor?] hides behind a large globe. Coloured lithograph.
  • Maurice D'Ocagne. Photograph by Sartony.
  • Colin Maclaurin. Coloured stipple engraving by R. Page, 1814.
  • Astronomy and mathematics: Samuel Vince reading in his rooms at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, by the light of a shaded lamp. Aquatint by F. Jukes with engraving by J. K. Baldrey after R. C. Chilton, c.1784.
  • Fame, with a lamp, hovering among clouds over the earth: around her are seven portraits of philosophers in ovals. Engraving by T. Millow, 1804, after R. Smirke.
  • Six portraits of eminent seventeenth century men. Engraving.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • George Boole. Wood engraving, 1865.