Scientist Collection (page 11)

Francois Villette, French engineer
Francois Villette (1621-1698), French engineer, noted for his burning mirrors and his fireworks. circa 1680

Visit of 1930 Ornithological Congress to Tring
Within the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum at Tring, bequeathed to the Natural History Museum after his death in 1937

Ernst Hartert (1859-1933)
Curator of ornithology at Walter Rothschilds Zoological Museum at Tring from 1892 to 1930, during which time he also served as Museum Director

Geologists of the 1860 s
c.1860 s. From collection of manuscript material by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, donated by his granddaughter Mary Hawkins Date: circa 1860

Thomas Sopwith (1803-1879) & geological models
Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879) was an eminent geologist and civil engineer who pioneered methods of representing geological features

Sopwith Model XII: Denudation of mineral veins
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on inclined strata, with increased complexity to the situation in Model VII

Sopwith Model VII: Surface denudation of veins
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on otherwise flat, horizontal strata. The discontinuity between the beds as viewed at the surface can be seen

Sopwith Models: denudation & faulting
Models showing the effect of denudation and faulting on how rock strata appear at the surface. Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879)

Sopwith Model II: Coal strata near Newcastle
Unlike the models of generic situations this representation of coal strata was specific to a particular surveyed location in England showing several thin, and mostly hidden, coal seams

Sopwith Model VII: Denudation of mineral veins
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on otherwise flat, horizontal strata. The discontinuity between the beds as viewed at the surface can be seen

Sopwith Model VI: Intersecting mineral veins
This Model, rather than representing the strata as they would appear at the surface, shows how a seam of coal can be displaced in the subsurface by various modes of faulting

Sopwith Model XI: Vertical intersecting veins
This model, when separated, shows the complex interface between faulted strata of rocks. Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879) was an eminent geologist

Sopwith Model XII: Mineral vein denudation
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on inclined strata, with increased complexity to the situation in Model VII

Sopwith Model VIII: Overcutting of strata
This model shows overcut strata: when the layers of rock are inclined at a gentler angle than the eroded slope, the resulting vee pattern points uphill

Sopwith Model VII: Surface denudation
This model shows the influence of surface denudation and faulting on otherwise flat, horizontal strata. The discontinuity between the beds as viewed at the surface can be seen

Sopwith Model X: Denuded basset of strata
This model shows undercut strata: when the layers of rock are inclined at a steeper angle than the eroded slope, the resulting vee pattern points downhill

Sopwith Model V: Dislocations of coal strata
This model shows that while very little coal may appear at ground level, coal seams (subject to faults and dislocations) can be found below the ground

Sopwith Model IV: Fallacious coal indications
This model depicts the scenario where from the surface an abundance of coal appears to exist, but there is actually very little quantity below

Sopwith Model III: Dislocation of strata
This model represents the side of a valley of denudation, with undisturbed horizontal beds of sedimentary rock when fully assembled

Sopwith Model I: Stratified rocks / denudation
Black lines in this model represent coal seams, between lighter shales and sandstones. When separated the lower section shows a gently inclined valley floor

Sopwith Model II: Coal strata nr Newcastle
Unlike the models of generic situations this representation of coal strata was specific to a particular surveyed location in England showing several thin, and mostly hidden, coal seams

Cover of Thomas Sopwiths Geological Model Set
Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879) was an eminent geologist and civil engineer who pioneered methods of representing geological features

Thomas Sopwiths Geological Model Set
Thomas Sopwith (1803 - 1879) was an eminent geologist and civil engineer who pioneered methods of representing geological features

Cartoon, The product of German science, WW1
Cartoon, The product of German science, showing a group of learned men looking at a subhuman German soldier, with a lookalike Neanderthal man on display in the background. Date: 1916

Cartoon, The electric underpants, WW1
Cartoon, The electric underpants, showing a new invention by a German scientist. Not only do the underpants keep the soldier warm in the trenches

Robert Koch - German bacteriologist
Robert Koch (1840-1910) - German bacteriologist. Date: circa 1890

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

Charles Hutton (1737-1823), English mathematician and scientist, he was best known for his works on the caluculation of the density of the universe Date: circa 18th century

Chirstian Huygens
Christian Huygens (1629-1695), Dutch mathematician and scientist, astronomour and physicist. Date: circa 17th century

Illustration showing a Victorian scientist holding a huge bone from a prehistoric animal.. Lithograph by F. John from Tiere der Urwelt Animals of the Prehistoric World, 1910, Hamburg

Joseph Henry - American Physicist
Joseph Henry (1797-1878) - American physicist associated with electro-magnetism. The SI unit of inductance, the henry, is named in his honor

MENDELEYEV, Dmitry Ivanovich (1834-1907). Russian chemist. Autor the first version of the periodic table of elements. Oil on canvas

OPPENHEIMER, Julius Robert (1904-1967). American physicist

Reconstruction of the steam engine. 1765. FRANCE. Ό E-DE-FRANCE. Paris. Museum of Arts and Crafts (CNAM)

VILANOVA i PIERA, Joan (1821-1893). Agronomic map of Madrid municipal area. SPAIN. MADRID (AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY). Madrid. Instituto Geol󧩣 o y Minero de Espa

War machine. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Drawing. ITALY. VENETO. Venice. Gallerie dell Accademia (Academy Gallery)

BERNOULLI, Johann (1667-1748). Swiss mathematician. Development of infinitesimal calculus. Catenary solution Bernoullis rule. Engraving

BARNARD, Christian Neethling (1922-2001). South African cardiac surgeon who performed the worlds first successful human-to-human heart transplant. Oil

KOCH, Robert (1843-1910). German physician, discoverer of the tuberculin. Nobel Prize in 1905. Engraving

HEWISH, Anthony (1924). British radio astronomer. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1974. Oil

CATHERINE de Medicis (1519-1589). Queen of France (1547-1559), wife of Henry II. The astrologer Cosimo Ruggeri, or possibly Nostradamus

LEEUWENHOEK, Antony van (1632-1723). Dutch naturalist and optician. First to observe bacteriae. He is commonly known as the Father of Microbiology, and considered to be the first microbiologist. Oil

BUFFON, Georges-Louis Leclerc, count de (1707-1788). French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist, and encyclopedic author. Engraving. SPAIN. CATALONIA. Barcelona

JOLIOT, Fr餩ric (1900-1958). French physicist
JOLIOT, Fr餩 ric (1900-1958). French physicist. Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935. Oil

MAXWELL, James Clerk (1831-1879). Scottish theoretical physicist. Engraving

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