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  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • 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.
  • A middle-aged man giving a geometry lesson to young woman, a young man [her suitor?] hides behind a large globe. Coloured lithograph.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • Mathematicians and astronomers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.
  • Maurice D'Ocagne. Photograph by Sartony.
  • Six portraits of eminent seventeenth century men. Engraving.
  • A mathematician, using dividers to measure a diagram on a piece of paper. Engraving.
  • 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.
  • Colin Maclaurin. Coloured stipple engraving by R. Page, 1814.
  • 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.
  • Sixteen portraits of classical poets and thinkers. Drawing, c. 1789.
  • A mathematician using dividers to draw geometrical shapes on a tablet. Engraving by N. Cavalli after G.B. Piazzetta.