Images Dated 2nd June 2006

Sir James Clark Ross, 19th century British naval officer and explorer, (20th century)

Sir James Clark Ross, 19th century British naval officer and explorer, (20th century). Ross (1800-1862) was a notable polar explorer. He was a member of expeditions to the Arctic with his uncle, Sir John Ross and Sir William Parry, attempting to find the Northwest Passage and locating the North Magnetic Pole. Between 1839 and 1843, Ross commanded HMS Erebus and HMS Terror on an expedition to explore the Antarctic. In 1848 he made his last voyage, to the Arctic in an unsuccessful attempt to locate the missing expedition of Sir John Franklin

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Sir Isaac Newton under the apple tree, (20th century)

Sir Isaac Newton under the apple tree, (20th century). Newton under the apple tree where, according to popular legend, a falling apple prompted him to devise his theory of gravity. Newton's (1643-1727) discoveries were prolific and exerted a huge influence on science and thought. His theories of gravity and his three laws of motion were outlined in his greatest work, Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), and he is credited with discovering differential calculus. He also formulated theories regarding optics and the nature of light that led to him building the first reflecting telescope. Knighted by Queen Anne in 1705, Newton is buried in Westminster Abbey, London

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Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician, 19th century

Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician, 19th century. Portrait of Berthelot (1827-1907), whose discoveries in the field of synthesizing organic compounds discredited the notion that such compounds can only be created by living organisms

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