Mathematical Collection

Bernouilli Brothers
Brothers Jakob I and Johann I Bernoulli working on a problem of geometry

Cambridge - Queens College, Mathematical Bridge - Painted by landscape artist Alfred Robert Quinton for the Sevenoaks based publishing and printing company J

PRODIGY : HEINECKEN
CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HEINECKEN (1721 - 1725), known as The Infant of Lubeck, had mathematical and memory gifts, wide knowledge of history and geography, and predicted his own death at 4

The west front of the Mathematical School, Christs Hospital, 1775. Free school built by Sir Robert Clayton during the reign of King Charles II

Grave effigy and monument to William Emerson, died 1575
Grave effigy and monument to honest man William Emerson, died 1575, in St. Mary Overies or St. Saviours Southwark. Copperplate engraving by John Thomas Smith after original drawings by members of

Mathematical Drawing Instruments. circa 1880s

CLEVER DOG MUNITO
MUNITO, the clever French poodle, performs mathematical feats with numbered cards Date: circa 1818

London Trade Card - James Simons, Scientiific Instruments
London Trade Card - James Simons, Mathematical, Philosophical and Optical Instruments, at Sir Isaac Newtons Head, corner of Marylebone Street, opposite Glasshouse Street. 18th century

Circumference of the Earth. Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) de
Circumference of the Earth. Eratosthenes (250 BC) calculated the circumference of the Earth by measuring noontime shadows at two localities of different latitude

Antonio Maria Bordoni (1789-1860). Italian mathematican. Sta
Antonio Maria Bordoni (1789-1860). Italian mathematican. He is generally considered to be the founder of the mathematical school of Pavia. Statue. University of Pavia. Italy

The Astrarium of Giovanni Dondi (1318-1388). Used to determine the position of planets according to he Ptolemaic theory of the Universe. National Museum of Science and Technology Leonardo da Vinci

Pythagoras of Samos (570 BC-495 BC). Ionic Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the religious movement called Pythagoreanism. Bust. Roman copy. 1st and 2nd centuries. Capitoline Museums

Paris Exhibition - Palace of science, letters and art 1900
The entrance of printing exhibits, the scholastic exhibits, the display of books, ancient and modern, mathematical, scientific and musical instruments. Date: 1900

Inaudi, the lightning calculator, performing at the Hippodrome, able to do mentally any sum given by the audience up to twelve figures in addition, subtraction and multiplication. Date: 1903

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (1824-1907) - a Scotch-Irish mathematical physicist and engineer. Date: circa 1905

Blanquerna. Novel written around 1293 by Mallorcan writer and philosopher Ramon Llull. It chronicles the life of its eponymous hero. Front. Valencia, 1521

Abacus, also called a counting frame. Cesis. Latvia

Joseph Bertrand
JOSEPH BERTRAND French mathematician, perpetual secretary of the mathematical sciences department of the Academie des Sciences. Date: 1822 - 1900

Science / Instruments 1827
A mathematical instrument maker with some of his instruments - astrolabe, telescope, armillary sphere etc. Date: 1827

George Bidder(1806-1878), engineer and mathematical prodigy

Sir William Thomson - British scientist
Sir William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs (1824-1907), British mathematical physicist and engineer. Date: circa 1890s

Rudimentary balloon with a boat slung underneath
A rudimentary balloon with a boat slung underneath.There are four balloons (two at each end), a sail to propel it vehicle and a rudder to steer it. From: Collegium experimentale, sive, curiosum

The Right Reverend John Wilkins
Title page and frontispiece of The mathematical and philosophical works of the Right Reverend John Wilkins. The frontispiece is a portrait of Wilkins. Date: 1708

George Gabriel Stokes
Sir GEORGE GABRIEL STOKES Irish mathematical physicist at Cambridge Date: 1819 - 1903

Onorio Marinari
ONORIO MARINARI Italian painter and engraver from Firenze, mostly doing portraits of saints, but he also wrote and illustrated a mathematical treatise. Date: 1627 - 1715

Princess Trixie the Highly Educated Horse
Princess Trixie, a Grey 1/2 Arab mare, who was highly educated and travelled the world - here she is advertising (" Grand" ) National Cash Registers, by keeping her accounts in check

William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin (Lord Kelvin)
William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin of Largs (1824-1907), British mathematical physicist and engineer

Ought and Carry On by A. Havers
A young girl puzzles over some mathematical problem using a slate

Mathematicians
Two scholars use a mathematical device, perhaps to help them in some surveying or astronomical calculations

Jacques Inaudi
GIACOMO INAUDI Italian mathematical prodigy, on stage at Paris

Lady Wrangler June 1894
Miss A M J E JOHNSON of Newnham College, Cambridge, beats all her male competitors in the Mathematical Tripos, and is chaired and cheered round Clough Hall

Cambridge Uni Wrangler
The Senior Wrangler - he who has obtained the highest place in the mathematical tripos - is presented to the Vice Chancellor

J M Hoene-Wronski
J M HOENE-WRONSKI Polish/French scientist and mystic who found a mathematical proof of the Absolute

Pascal as a Schoolboy
BLAISE PASCAL As a boy, he impresses not only his fellow-pupils but even his teacher with his mathematical skills

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