Surveying, early 17th century.
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Surveying and timekeeping, 1551.
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William Herschel's reflecting telescope of 40 ft (12 m) focal length, 1789 (1807).
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'Mr Frank Crisp', 1890. Artist: Spy
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Clepsydra (water clock) indicating hours and chiming, 1617-1619.
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Long focal length refracting telescope, 1728.
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John Leslie, Scottish natural philosopher and physicist, 19th century.
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Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist, inventing the mercury barometer, 1643 (1873).
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Torricelli's demonstration of the effect of atmospheric pressure on a column of liquid, 1643 (1873).
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Von Guericke's water barometer, 1672.
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Blaise Pascal, 17th century  French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher, 1878
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Experimental barometers used by the Accademia dell Cimento, Florence, Italy, 1691.
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Experimental barometers used by the Accademia dell Cimento, Florence, Italy, 1691.
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Experimental barometers used by the Accademia dell Cimento, Florence, Italy, 1691.
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Frontispiece of Ontledigen en Ondekkigen...Brieven by Anton van Leeuwenhoek, 1686.
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Reconstruction of a clepsydra (water clock), invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria, c270 BC (1857).
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Dorothea Klumpke Roberts, American mathematician and astronomer, 1903.
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Jules Pierre Cesar Janssen, French astronomer, 1893.
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Using a quadrant with a plumb bob to calculate the height of a tower by triangulation, 1551.
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Medal commemorating the discovery of penicillin, 1945.
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Sending a semaphore signal using flags, c1880. Artist: Geoffrey Douglas Giles
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William Henry Bragg, English physicist, early 20th century.
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James Brindley, English civil engineer and canal builder, c1770 (1835).
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Galileo observing the swaying of the chandelier in Pisa Cathedral, c1584 (1870).
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Foucault using his pendulum to demonstrate the rotation of the Earth, Paris, 1851 (1887).
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