Arithmetic Collection (page 6)

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, (1933). Portrait of Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz (1646-1716), German philosopher and mathematician

Rene Descartes, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Rene Descartes, (1933). Portrait of French thinker, mathematician and scientist Rene Descartes (1596-1650), one of the great figures in the history of Western thought

Blaise Pascal, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Blaise Pascal, (1933). Portrait of French philosopher, mathematician, physicist and theologian Blaise Pascal (1623-1662). Credited with founding the modern theory of probability

The Christmas Camp on the Plateau, December 1908, (1909). Artist: Ernest Shackleton
The Christmas Camp on the Plateau. The figures from left to right are [Jameson] Adams, [Eric] Marshall and [Frank] Wild. The frost can be seen on the mens faces, December 1908, (1909)

Lieut. E. R. G. R. Evans Surveying With The Four-Inch Theodolite, October 1911, (1913)
Lieut. E. R. G. R. Evans Surveying With The Four-Inch Theodolite Which Was Used To Locate The South Pole, October 1911, (1913)

Number work, Southfields Infants School, Wandsworth, London, 1907. Children, divided into two groups sitting in lines down either side of the hall

Arithmetic lesson in the garden, Birley House Open Air School, London, 1908
Arithmetic lesson in the garden, Birley House Open Air School, Forest Hill, London, 1908. The uniformed children all have their own small blackboards

Numeracy lesson using sticks, Hugh Myddelton School, Finsbury, London, 1906. A class of young children learning numeracy by counting small sticks laid out in front of them

Sir Isaac Newtons house and observatory, 35 St Martins Street, Westminster, London, 1826. View of the famous physicists house off Leicester Square

Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle contemplating the plurality of worlds, 1791. Artist
Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle contemplating the plurality of worlds, 1791. French mathematician Bernard Fontenelle (1657-1757) stands by a telescope, looking up at the Moon in the night sky

Tabulating machines in the punch room in a Sheffield Factory office, 1963. Artist
Tabulating machines in the punch room in a Sheffield factory office, South Yorkshire, 1963. scene in the offices of the Edgar Allen Steel Company

Hollerith data machine in an office at the Edgar Allen Steel Co, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Herman Hollerith was born in 1860 of German parentage

Lab technician at a steelworks in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1963. Laboratories were essential for checking the quality of the raw materials

Lab technician with a slide rule, Edgar Allens steel foundry, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, 1962. Before the invention of cheap electronic calculators, slide rules had to be used to work out formulae

Arti liberali. Frieze in the Casa Pellizzari, c. 1500. Artist: Giorgione (1476-1510)
Arti liberali. Frieze in the Casa Pellizzari, c. 1500. Found in the collection of Casa Giorgione, Castelfranco Veneto

The Seven Liberal Arts. Artist: Giovanni di Ser Giovanni, (Lo Scheggia) (1406-1486)
The Seven Liberal Arts. Found in the collection of Museu Nacional d Art de Catalunya, Barcelona

The Seven Liberal Arts (From Regia Carmina by Convenevole da Prato). Artist: Pacino di Buonaguida (active 1302-1343)
The Seven Liberal Arts (From Regia Carmina by Convenevole da Prato). Found in the collection of British Library

Frontispiece of the Arithmetic by Leonty Magnitsky. Artist: Karnovsky, Mikhail Dmitrievich (active 1701-1710)
Frontispiece of the Arithmetic by Leonty Magnitsky. Private Collection

A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts, 1484-1486. Artist: Botticelli, Sandro (1445-1510)
A Young Man Being Introduced to the Seven Liberal Arts, 1484-1486. Found in the collection of the Louvre, Paris

Eyes of the Army, 1941. Artist: Cecil Beaton
Eyes of the Army, 1941. A soldier keeps the enemy in his sights. From Air of Glory, by Cecil Beaton. [His Majestys Stationery Office, London, 1941]

Clerk using a Pascal adding machine, 1835
Clerk using an adding machine of the type developed by Blaise Pascal (1623-1664), 1835. (Colorised black and white print)

Archimedes taking a Warm Bath, 1852. Artist: John Leech
Archimedes taking a Warm Bath, 1852. From The Comic History of Rome, by Gilbert A A Beckett, illustrated by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1852]

Der Philosoph Leibniz 1646-1716. - Gemalde von C. Meyer, 1934
Der Philosoph Leibniz 1646-1716. 1934. Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716), German philosopher and mathematician. From Die Groszen der Weltgelchichte. [Ecktein-Halpaus, Dresden, 1934]

Edison and Steinmetz Join Forces to Achieve Success, 1922, (c1925). Thomas Alva Edison, (1847-1931), American inventor and businessman

Galileo Galilei, Italian scientist, late 18th or early 19th century (1894). Artist: Pietro Antonio Leone Bettelini
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer, physicist, mathematician and engineer, late 18th or early 19th century (1894)

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), 1882. Galileo was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution

Charles Babbage (1791-1871) English mathematician and pioneer of computing, 1871. In the 1820s, Babbage began to develop a Difference Engine which could perform simple mathematical calculations

Isaac Newton, English mathematician, astronomer and physicist, (1818). Artist: R Page
Isaac Newton, English mathematician, astronomer and physicist, (1818). Newtons (1643-1727) discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

Agrippa Instructing His Pupils Mathematically, 1553, (1936). The frontespiece of the Treatise on the Science of Arms with Philosophical Dialogue by Camillo Agrippa, published in 1553

Study for the Last Super and Mathematical Figures and Calculations, c1480 (1945). Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Study for the Last Super and Mathematical Figures and Calculations, c1480 (1945). From The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci. [Reynal & Hitchcock, New York, 1945]

James Brindley, 18th century English civil engineer and canal builder, (1836). Artist: JT Wedgwood
James Brindley, 18th century English civil engineer and canal builder, (1836). Brindley (1716-1772) rests a hand on a theodolite

Galilei 1564-1642, 1934. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian polymath: astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher and mathematician. From Die Groszen der Weltgelchichte

Johannes Kepler 1571-1630, 1934. Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), German mathematician, astronomer, and astrologer. A key figure in the 17th-century scientific revolution

Sir Christopher Wren, 1711. Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller
Sir Christopher Wren, 1711. Wren (1632-1723) is best remembered for his rebuilding of St Pauls Cathedral and numerous other churches destroyed in the Great Fire of London (1666)

Sir William Thomson, Irish physicist and engineer, c1870s (1883). From William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries, Vol. III, 1852-1860, by Thomas Archer, F.R.H.S

D Alembert, 1753. Artist: Maurice-Quentin de La Tour
D Alembert, 1753. Jean-Baptiste le Rond d Alembert (1717-1783), French mathematician, mechanician, physicist, philosopher, and music. Held at the Musee du Louvre, Paris

Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer, 1894
Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), Polish mathematician and astronomer, 1894. From A Popular History of Science, by Robert Routledge, BSc (Lond.), F.C.S. [George Routledge & Sons, Limited. London, 1894]

Weighing the Earth, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

Super calculating machine, 1938. Churchmans cigarette card, from a series titled Modern Wonders [WA & AC Churchman, Great Britain & Ireland, 1938]

Pythagoras (c560 - 480 BC), Greek philosopher and scientist. Mathematics. Acoustics. Engraving. (Colorised black and white print)

William Whiston, 1878
William Whiston.Engraving from Old and new London Volume 2 by Walter Thornbury.Published by Cassell, Petter and Galpin, 1878

Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727), English mathematician, astronomer and physicist, 1924
Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727), English mathematician, astronomer and physicist, 19th century. Newtons discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought

Sir Isaac Newton, taken from a series of cigarette cards, 1935
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727), English physicist and mathematician. Taken from a series of cigarette cards entitled Celebrities of British History produced by Carreas Ltd, 1935

Crugers azimuth quadrant, 1673 (1956). Artist: A Steck
Crugers azimuth quadrant, 1673 (1956). Peter Cruger (1580-1639) was a German mathematician, astronomer and polymath. He taught the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius

Francois Arago, French scientist and statesman, 1853. Dominique Francois Jean Arago (1786-1853) made important discoveries in the fields of astronomy, magnetism and optics

Five inch theodolite, 1866. A print from Cyclopaedia of Useful Arts, Mechanical and Chemical, Manufactures, Mining, and Engineering, edited by Charles Tomlinson, Volume II, Virtue and Co, London, 1866

John Arbuthnot, Scottish physician, satirist, mathematician and polymath (1906). Arbuthnot (1667-1735) was the inventor of the figure of John Bull

Christiaan Huygens, 17th century Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist, c1870. Artist: JH Rennefeld
Christiaan Huygens, 17th century Dutch mathematician, astronomer and physicist, c1870. Huygens (1629-1695) made important contributions in several scientific fields

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