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  • 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 classical courtyard filled with natural philosophers, scientists and artists. Engraving after S. Le Clerc.
  • Two merchants and a woman at a table; representing arithmetic. Etching by C. Schut after himself.
  • Mensuration: a man using an inclinometer (?) and trigonometry to measure a water-tank (?) in a field. Engraving, ca.1760.
  • Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.
  • The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the part associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with memory for numbers. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
  • A mathematician standing before a blackboard, on which he has drawn a diagram. Engraving by I.S. Klauber after Le Fort after F. Bol.
  • Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
  • Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.
  • A female figure book keeping; representing arithmetic. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos.
  • Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.
  • Mathematics: cutaway diagrams of the internal workings of Pascal's calculating machine. Engraving by Benard.
  • The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the part associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with memory for numbers. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.
  • Inventions: various things beginning with "A". Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mathematics: details of a dividing engine for making mathematical instruments. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Mathematics: a graph-plotting machine. Engraving by Benard.
  • A female figure book keeping; representing arithmetic. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.
  • Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.
  • 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 woman with a castle on her head traces a compass across a globe while two men crouch over it; representing geometry. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • Science: a pair of blow-pipes (above), and a calculating engine (below). Wood engraving, 1841.
  • A quadrangle designed for St Mary's Hall, Oxford. Engraving by G. Vertue, 1746.
  • Three men read while a woman writes numerals; representing arithmetic. Engraving by C. Cort, 1565, after F. Floris, c. 1557.
  • A young woman engrossed in raptures at her desk, with her hands in her lap: a man [a servant?] appears in the background. Mezzotint, 1772.
  • An alchemist at his alembic; surrounded by vignettes of scientific pursuits. Wood engraving by Dalziel, 18--.