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A laughing face. Engraving by M. Engelbrecht (?), 1732, after C. Le Brun.

Date

1732

Reference

32637i

The physiology of laughter.

Date

1860

Paul tells the people of Greece about the last judgement; some mock and others believe. Engraving by C. Bloemaert, 1679, after C. Ferri.

Date

1679

Reference

24892i

The philosophy of laughter and smiling / by George Vasey.

Date

1877

The nature of laughter / [J. C Gregory].

Date

1924

A laughing face (left) and a face expressing acute pain (right). Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.

Reference

32372i

A man dancing and laughing as a result of the effects of nitrous oxide gas. Engraving.

Reference

23223i

Le rire : essai sur la signification du comique.

Date

1900

Traité du ris : contenant son essance, ses causes, et mervelheus effais, curieusemant recerchés, raisonnés & observés / par M. Laur. Ioubert.

Date

1579

Traité des causes physiques et morales du rire relativement à l'art de l'exciter / [L. Poinsinet de Sivry] [Anon].

Date

1768

Four faces (clockwise from top left): laughing, weeping, showing sadness, and compassion. Etching by A.-J. Defehrt after C. Le Brun.

Reference

33648i

Essays. On poetry and music, as they affect the mind. On laughter, and ludicrous composition. On the utility of classical learning. By James Beattie, LL. D. Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in the Marischal College and University of Aberdeen.

Date

MDCCLXXVI. [1776]

Two outlines of faces showing astonishment and fear (left) and laughter (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.

Date

[1713]

Reference

33510i

An essay on laughter, wherein are displayed its natural and moral causes, with the arts of exciting it.

Date

1769

Democritus laughing and Heraclitus weeping, with a globe between them. Etching by R. Gaywood after J. van Vliet after Rembrandt van Rijn.

Date

[between 1650 and 1659?]

Reference

543395i

Redeeming laughter : the comic dimension of human experience / Peter L. Berger.

Date

[1997], ©1997

Ha! : the science of when we laugh and why / Scott Weems.

Date

[2014]

La cause morale du ris de l'excellant & tres-nommé Democrite / expliquee & temognee par le divin Hippocras, an ses Epitres. Traduite de Grec an Fransais, par M. I. Guichard.

Date

1579

A woman laughing. Lithograph by P. Simonau, 1822, after C. Le Brun.

Date

1822

Reference

34105i

A doctor holding a medicine bottle entertains a crocodile, while other crocodiles bite his coat tails; illustrating the saying "Laughter is the best medicine". Coloured lithograph by A. Schaefer-Ast, 1947.

Date

[19]47

Reference

652870i

The life scientific : 6/8 [Sophie Scott].

Date

2013

Reflections upon laughter, and remarks upon The fable of the bees. By Francis Hutcheson, L. L. D. Late Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow. Carefully corrected.

Date

MDCCL. [1750]

The philosophy of laughter and smiling.

Date

1877

A man breathing in nitrous oxide (laughing gas) and a man exhibiting its exhilarating effects. Wood engraving, c. 1840.

Date

[1840?]

Reference

12028i

Two faces showing joy and laughter. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.

Date

[1713]

Reference

33628i