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Blaise Pascal
A c. 1690 oil-on-canvas portrait of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), the French scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. (Palace of Versailles)
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Ferdinand Verbiest
A portrait of Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-88 CE), a Jesuit scholar and scientist who spread European ideas in China. (National Library, Paris)
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Marquis de Condorcet
Portrait of Jean Antoine Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis of Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist, oil on canvas by an unknown artist (previously attributed to Jean-Baptiste Greuze). Palace of...
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Statue of Pascal, Louvre
A c. 1780 statue by Augustin Pajou of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662), the French scientist, mathematician, and philosopher. Pascal is shown contemplating a mathematical problem involving the cycloid. (Louvre, Paris)
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Edmond Halley by Murray
A c. 1690 portrait by Thomas Murray of the English scientist and cartographer Edmond Halley (1656-1742).
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Marcello Malpighi by Cignani
A 17th-century oil-on-canvas portrait by Carlo Cignani of the Italian scientist Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694).
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Anniversary of Hachikō's Death
First anniversary of Hachikō's death, photograph included in Showa Day by Day (Volume 4), p. 53, by Kondansha Co., 8 March 1936. Hachikō was an Akita dog belonging to Hidesaburō Ueno, an agricultural scientist, who...
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Bust of Edmond Halley
A bust of the English scientist and cartographer Edmond Halley (1656-1742). The bust was made in 1904 by Henry Alfred Pegram. (Royal Greenwich Observatory Museum)
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Robert Boyle
A print portrait of the Angol-Irish scientist Robert Boyle (1627-1691). (Science Museum, London)
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Tomb of Malpighi
The tomb of the scientist Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), Church of Santi Gregorio e Siro, Bologna, Italy.