Physics Collection

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Isaac Newton using a prism to analyze the colors in a ray of light. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

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Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician. Hand-colored engraving of a portrait

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Galileo attempting to defend his belief in the heliocentric solar system before the Inquisition in Rome, 1633. Hand colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

Huygens clock diagram
Side view of Huygenss clock, showing the pendulum mechanism, 1600s. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of an illustration

Hans Christian Oersted, who founded the study of electromagnetism. Digitally colored woodcut

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Galileo Galilei. Hand-colored 19th-century woodcut

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Physicist James Prescott Joule. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century portrait

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Isaac Newtons handwritten solution of the brachystochrone, or curve of quickest descent. Woodcut reproduction with a watercolor wash

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Galileo Galilei, astronomer. Hand-colored engraving of a painting

Physicist Joseph Henry
Professor Joseph Henry, first Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Professor Henri Becquerel in his laboratory. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a photograph

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Frontispiece of Galileos " Systema Cosmicum, " 1641, showing the author with Ptolemy and Copernicus. Hand-colored woodcut of the document

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Professor J. J. Thomson in his laboratory. Hand-colored halftone of a 20th-century illustration

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Sir Isaac Newton. Hand-colored engraving of a portrait by Sir Godfry Kneller

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Benjamin Franklin flying a kite to demonstrate the electrical nature of lightning. Hand-colored woodcut

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Leyden jar experiment with which Benjamin Franklin showed that a spark generates heat. Hand-colored woodcut

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Isaac Newton. Hand-colored engraving from a portrait by Vanderbank

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