Ideas Collection (page 4)

Pythagoras & Priests
PYTHAGORAS Greek philosopher and mathematician, sharing knowledge and ideas with the priests of Egypt

Medallion of Mesmer
Friedrich Anton (Franz) Mesmer - depicted on a medallion. Mesmer was a German physicist who explored ideas on magnetic and gravitational influences on health

Sultan Selim III
SELIM III - a keen reformer, he angers vested interests with his ideas, is deposed in 1807 and murdered by strangulation after a years imprisonment

Descartes and Christina
Rene Descartes explains his ideas to the scholarly queen Christina of Sweden

Erasmus / David Mortier
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS Dutch humanist, whose ideas looked forward to the Enlightenment

Disraeli / Fagin / Reform
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Dizzy as Fagin demonstrates to his boy MPs how to steal ideas for reform out of the pocket of Lord John Russell

Man and Snake
A man meets a snake, and takes his axe with the intention of cutting its head off : the snake has other ideas

Peter I / Scribners 1880
PETER I the Great In 1697/8 he toured western Europe picking up ideas : here he is studying shipbuilding at Zaandam in the Netherlands

Fancy Dress Hats
These three young women model the latest ideas for what to wear for a head-dress party - very becoming tricorn hats! Made of panne velvet, with ninon veils under the chin

Fancy Dress Ideas
Fancy yourself as a Greek goddess ? an American cowgirl sporting a rifle ? a Pierrette ? a lady writer ? or just a splash of colour ?

Saint-Simoniens
Followers of Saint-Simon hope that the July Revolution will enable his socialist ideas to be put into practice : they meet to present their case but they have no success

Re-Educating Soldiers
Napoleons officers are sent to school, to be instructed in Frances new social ideas and conditions

Copernicus Explains Idea
MIKOLAI KOPERNIK (COPERNICUS) The Polish astronomer explains his ideas around a table

Future Airship Race
WILD IDEAS A race-meeting of the future : in days to come, Le Grand Prix de Paris will be run not with horses but with airships

Thought Reading
The fashionable amusement of pretending to discern ideas in other persons minds has adepts who occasionally succ- -eed in performing this feat to the wonder of spectators

Napoleon 1793 Supper
NAPOLEON in 1793 at the Supper of Beaucaire where he developed his political ideas in a conversation subsequently written up as a book

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