Discovery Collection (page 11)

The Tomb of Amenhotep II, Valley of the Kings, Egypt. Amenhotep (Amenophis) II was the seventh Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt. He ruled from 1427 until 1400 BC

Tomb of Tutankhamun, Karnak, Luxor, Egypt. The tomb of the 18th Dynasty Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun (ruled 1333-1323 BC) in the Valley of the Kings

Porteurs de Palanquins, 1828. Artist: Jean Henri Marlet
Porteurs de Palanquins, 1828. A print from L Inde Francaise, 1828. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Antoine Lavoisiers apparatus for weighing gases, 1789. The discoverer of oxygen, French chemist Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794) is regarded as the founder of the modern science of chemistry

Antoine Lavoisiers apparatus for synthesizing water from hydrogen (left) and oxygen (right), 1881. The discoverer of oxygen

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, French chemist, demonstrating his discovery of oxygen, 1776 (1874). On the table in the right background of the picture is his calorimeter

Observation of a spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici drawn by Lord Rosse, 1850. Artist: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
Observation of a spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici drawn by Lord Rosse, 1850. Known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, this was the first galaxy to be recognised as having a spiral structure

The Finding of Moses, 16th century. Artist: Jacopo Tintoretto
The Finding of Moses, 16th century. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Christopher Columbus landing in America, c1760(?)-1770. Artist: Jean Robert Ango
Christopher Columbus landing in America, c1760(?)-1770. Piece taken from the collection of paintings of the Baillif of Breteuil in 1770

Detail from The Virgin of the Navigators, 16th century. Christopher Columbus (left) at the feet of the Virgin. From the Museo de America, Madrid

John Russell Hind, Hermann Goldschmidt and Robert Luther, astronomers, c1900. Medal commemorating the work of these three men on the discovery of planetoids (asteroids or minor planets)

Medal commemorating Pierre Janssen and Norman Lockyer, French and English astronomers, 1868
Medal commemorating Pierre Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer, French and English astronomers, 1868. In 1868, working independently of each other on spectroscopic studies of solar prominences

Pierre Janssen and Joseph Norman Lockyer, French and English astronomers, 1868. Pierre Jules Cesar Janssen (1824-1907), left, and Joseph Norman Lockyer (1836-1920)

Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen, German physicist, 1902. In 1895, while professor of physics at Wurzburg, (Rontgen (1845-1913) discovered X-rays, originally called Rontgen rays

Francis Harry Compton Crick, British microbiologist, c1962. Francis Crick (1916-2004) discovered the molecular structure of DNA

Henri Becquerel, French physicist, c1890s. Artist: Nadar
Henri Becquerel, French physicist, c1890s. In 1896 Becquerel (1852-1908) discovered that uranium, when placed on a sealed, light-tight photographic plate, exposed the plate

Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist, 1842. Artist: Thomas Phillips
Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist, 1842. Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century

Frontispiece of Ontledigen en Ondekkigen... Brieven by Anton van Leeuwenhoek, 1686
Frontispiece of Ontledigen en Ondekkigen...Brieven by Dutch microscopist Anton van Leeuwenhoek, 1686. Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723)

Title page of Microscopium by Dutch microscopist Anton van Leeuwenhoek, 1708. Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) was one of the first to recognise cells in animals

Gustav Kirchhoff, Robert Bunsen and Henry Roscoe, scientists, c1860. Left to right: Gustav Robert Kirchhoff (1824-1887), German physicist; Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen (1811-1899)

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, German physicist, 1873. Kirchhoff (1824-1887) is known for his work on electricity, heat and optics

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, German physicist, 1876. Kirchhoff (1824-1887) is known for his work on electricity, heat and optics

Henri Etienne St Claire Deville, 19th century French chemist, (c1955). In 1854 Deville (1818-1881) discovered the process for obtaining pure aluminium by reducing aluminium chloride with sodium

Mendelian inheritance of colour of flower in the culinary pea, 1912. Pink-flowered race (left), white-flowered race (right), and a cross between the two (centre)

The solar spectrum, 1814. Joseph von Fraunhofers (1787-1826) drawing of the lines of the solar spectrum, and above it a curve showing the intensity of sunlight in different parts of the spectrum

Medal commemorating the discovery of penicillin, 1945
Medal commemorating the discovery of penicillin. Scottish bacteriologist Alexander Fleming (1881-1955) discovered penicillin in 1928

Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, 18th century French chemist, 1801. Among other achievements, Lavoisier (1743-1794) was one of the discoverers of oxygen, and established the laws of chemical combination

Claude Bernard, 19th century French physiologist, 1913. Obverse of a silver plaquette commemorating the centenary of his birth

Medal commemorating Claude Bernard, French physiologist, 19th century. Bernard (1813-1878) investigated the liver, discovering glycogen

Claude Bernard, French physiologist, 19th century. From the obverse of a commemorative medal. Bernard (1813-1878) investigated the liver, discovering glycogen

Robert Andrews Millikan, American physicist, 20th century. Millikan (1868-1953) was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1923 for his determination of the charge of the electron

Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist, c1895. Fraunhofer (1787-1826) founded an optical institute at Munich in 1807. His improvements to prisms

Michael Faraday, English chemist and physicist, 19th century. Faraday (1791-1867) was one of the greatest scientists of the 19th century

Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, French astronomer and mathematician, in Finland, 1736, (1874). In 1736 Maupertuis (1698-1759)

Galileo observing the swaying of the chandelier in Pisa Cathedral, c1584 (1870). Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist

Artists impression of deep sea scene with luminous fishes, 1903. Some of the creatures shown here were brought up in the dredges during the French oceanographical expeditions of the Travailleur

Friedrich August Kekule von Stradonitz, German organic chemist, c1885. In 1865, Kekule (1829-1896) published his theory of the structure of the benzene ring as a ring of six carbon atoms attached by

Lord Rosses 72 in / 1. 8m reflecting telescope, 1849
Lord Rosses 72 in/1.8m reflecting telescope, 1849. William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800-1867), Irish astronomer and engineer

Franklins kite experiment, c1752, (1869). Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American scientist, statesman, diplomat, author, printer and publisher

Illustration of Hookes Law on elasticity of materials, showing stretching of a spring, 1678. Robert Hooke (1635-1703), English scientist and inventor, formulated his law in 1676

August Wilhelm Hofmann, German organic chemist, 1854-1860. Through his work on coal-tar derivatives, Hofmann (1818-1892) in 1858 obtained aniline dye magenta or fuschine

Luigi Galvani, 18th century Italian physiologist, 1880
Luigi Galvani, 18th century Italian physiologist, [1880]. Galvani (1737-1798) discovered animal electricity (voltaic or galvanic electricity)

Galileos drawing of lunar craters, 1611, (c1655). Galileo Galilei (1554-1642), Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist made the first effective working telescope in 1609

A General Display of Arts and Sciences, 1790. Artist: Reynolds Grignion
A General Display of Arts and Sciences, 1790. At first glance it seems that ancient science and technology is depicted, but a closer look shows not only Pythagoras (6th century BC)

Howard Walter Florey, Australian pathologist, c1945. For his work on the isolation and purification of the first antibiotic, Penicillin

Joseph Priestley, English chemist and Presbyterian minister, 1791. Artist: William Bromley
Joseph Priestley, English Chemist and Presbyterian minister, 1791. Priestley (1733-1804) was a pioneer in the study of gases and is recognised as one of the discoverers of oxygen

Thomas Young (1773-1829), physicist and Egyptologist, 19th century
Thomas Young (1773-1829), English physicist and Egyptologist. Discovered the undulatory (wave) theory of light. Managed to decipher the Rosetta Stone

Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and radio engineer, c1940. In 1932, while carrying out research into static that might interfere with voice radio transmissions

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