Discoveries Collection

The hollow head of the Sphinx, Egypt
Remarkable discoveries within the Sphinx: the temple within its hollow head. Professor G. A. Reisners interesting discoveries. A diagrammatic view of hidden temples and a stairway inside the Sphinx

Science / Gillray Satire
New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! A satire on the Royal Institution: Thomas Young experiments on Hippisley, Humphry Davy at the bellows, Rumford by the door

Cave art paintings, prehistoric discovery
A cave painting of small brown and red stags with horses, composed in Greek style, between two large black bull heads. Cave art discoveries in the Dordogne were by the Aurignacians who sought refuge

Overton World Map / 1670
A new and accurate map of the world drawn according to the best and late discoveries of 1670

Claude Bernard
CLAUDE BERNARD French physiologist who made important medical discoveries

Lecture on Stephen Grays discoveries in electricity
A lecture at the Charterhouse, London on Stephen Grays discoveries in electricity. In the early eighteenth century, Gray demonstrated that charges of electricity could be conducted by some materials

Maps / Americas 1540
Map showing the discoveries by explorers during the first half-century after Columbus : note the confusion of India, Japan (Zipangri) and China (Cathay), & the Hesperides

Egyptian Dress / Vionnet
Black dress by Madeleine Vionnet inspired by recent archaeological discoveries in Egypt: tubular long bodice with horizontal bands, gored skirt with handkerchief hem

Palaeanthropus of Palestine
A reconstruction drawing of Palaeanthropus of Palestine based on discoveries made in the Valley of the Caves at the foot of Mount Carmel during an archaeological expedition led by Dorothy Garrod Date

Roman remains found in the City, London
Discoveries form 19th century excavations at Camomile Street and Bishopsgate. The remains were unearthed after the removal of a number of old buildings

Captain Ross pursuing his discoveries at Cape Garry - The Guide to Knowledge edited W. Pinnock, 1833 Date: 1833

Michael Faraday FRS (1791-1867), an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry

Dr. Livingstones Discoveries in Central Africa
Page from The Illustrated London News, 1856 reporting on the discoveries made by David Livingstone while exploring central Africa. The page features a portrait of Livingston from a photograph by M

America - Joseph Hays Body Discovered
Joseph Hays Body Discovered During The American War of Independence 1780

Discoveries in the Great Egyptian pyramid
Discoveries in the Great Egyptian Pyramid - 1 Original casing stone from the north side - 2. Granite ball, 1lb 3oz in weight - 2. Piece of cedar, apparently a measure- 4

Benjamin Franklin - Royal Society derides his discoveries
Benjamin Franklins discoveries are met with incredulity by the Royal Society of London. Date: 1706 - 1790

Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter in Tutankamens Tomb, Egypt
Photograph showing George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, looking into the Gilded Sanctuary Room of Tutankhamens tomb, as Howard Carter looks back towards the photographer in the main outer

Giovanni Da Verrazzano
GIOVANNI DA VERRAZZANO Florentine explorer who made several discoveries along North Americas eastern seaboard such as New York Bay

Tourists studying throne & couches of Tutankhamen, Cairo
Visitors from all parts of the world and Egyptians studying Tutankhamens throne in the thronged galleries of the Cairo Museum

Edmond Fremy - 2
EDMOND FREMY French chemist who made several valuable discoveries such as hydrogen fluoride gas, and wrote extensively on chemistry subjects. Date: 1814 - 1894

Court of Serendip
At the court of Serendip (an old name for Sri Lanka) whose princes continually made happy but unexpected discoveries, according to Horace Walpole. Hence serendipity

Cartoon, Scientific Researches! New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! or, an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air, by James Gillray

Paris, France - Palais de l Institut. Date: 1860

Claude Bernard Photo
CLAUDE BERNARD French medical researcher who made valuable discoveries, though at the expense of many animals for which he was reproved. Date: 1813 - 1878

Guillaume Franc. Rouelle
GUILLAUME FRANCOIS ROUELLE French chemist who made several important discoveries. Date: 1718 - 1779

Medicine in the Old Egypt. Note in papyrus of medical discoveries. The most well-known examples are the papyrus Ebers and Edwin Smith, found in the 19th c

Thomas Edward Bowdich
THOMAS EDWARD BOWDICH English traveller in Africa, making important discoveries in West Africa, writing about them in books and articles. Date: 1791 - 1874

Portugal, Lisbon, Belem: Monument to the Discoveries (PadrÒ»ádos Descobrimentos) (detail). From left, we see depicted: Gomes Eanes de Zurara (chronicler), Pero da Covilha (traveller)

Lowest level of Mesopotamias oldest city
Discoveries at Eridu by Sayyid Fuad Safar during excavations of Tell Abu Shahrain. Eridu is the oldest, largest city in Mesopotamia

Deir-El-Bahari, excavations near Thebes
Discoveries of mummies and sepulchral relics in Deir-El-Bahari. Excavations on the West Bank at ancient Thebes

Interior of the house of Cornelius Rufus, Pompeii
Interior view of the house of Cornelius Rufus, one of the discoveries in the buried city of Pompeii. The interior shows a typically rich Roman domestic interior with a bust of himself inscribed with

Sven Hedin to Tibet - 6
The Dalai Lama, forewarned of Hedins expedition, stops them and forces them to return to Ladak. Though he never reaches Lhasa, he makes very important discoveries

Rosses Giant Telescope
William Parsons, 3rd earl of Rosse, built his giant telescope, known as the Leviathan, at Parsonstown, near Dublin and with it made several important discoveries. Date: 1845

Louis XVI & LA Perouse
Louis XVI discusses his plans with navigator La Perouse, who will make important discoveries in the southern hemisphere (we have his book)

Stephen Hales, Medical
STEPHEN HALES churchman who opposed the drinking of spirits and made valuable medical discoveries

Gaspar Aselli
GASPAR ASELLI Italian surgeon from Cremona, practised in Milano, professor at Pavia : made important anatomical discoveries

JOHN MAYOW medical from London, anatomist who made important discoveries regarding the heart and respiration. Date: 1645 - 1679

Franciscus Sylvius
FRANCISCUS SYLVIUS (Francois Sylvius de la Boue) French anatomist who made important discoveries concerning ducts and glands

Geologists at Swanage
Labourers and geologists working at a site in Swanage, Dorset, where geological discoveries were made

Presents to Isabella / Cc
Christopher Columbus presents samples of his discoveries to Isabella

Schliemann in London
Heinrich Schliemann gives an account of his discoveries at Mycenae before the Society of Antiquaries at Burlington House

Niels Finsen Portrait
NIELS RYBERG FINSEN Danish medical pioneer who despite his own severe medical problems made important discoveries and received the Nobel Prize in 1903

Jan Battista Van Helmont
JAN BAPTISTA VAN HELMONT Flemish chemist and physician, credited with scientific discoveries but also with possession of the alchemists philosophers stone

Restif - Title Page
LA DECOUVERTE AUSTRALE PAR UN HOMME VOLANT (= Discoveries in the Southern Hemisphere by a Flying-Man) by Nicolas Restif de la Bretonne : one of the science-fiction classics

Michael Faraday, scientist, giving a lecture
Michael Faraday (1791-1867), scientist, lecturing at the Royal Institution, London, on his discoveries in magnetism and light

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