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hiphotos523513 Un Guerrier électrisé, 1844. An Electrified Warrior. Le Physicien: 'Tel est, messieurs, l'éffet veritablement extraordinaire de la pile de Volta!'. Le Pioupiou: 'Ah, nom d'Abd-el Kader! plus souvent que je m'exposerai une autrefois a recevoir une pareille pile!'. An enthusiastic physicist gives a public demonstration of Volta's discoveries while a uniformed soldier expresses alarm. The Physicist: 'This, gentlemen, is the truly extraordinary effect of the Volta battery!'. Le Pioupiou: 'Ah, by Abd-el Kader! do I have to expose myself again to such a battery!'. From Les Plaisirs des Champs-Elysées//

hiphotos522119 L'Eau du puits de Grenelle, 1841. - 'Décidement cette eau chaude est très mauvaise à boire'. - 'Oui, mais il y a beaucoup de petits insects dedans!'. Water from the Grenelle well. First man: 'This hot water is very bad to drink'. Second man: 'Yes, but there are a lot of little insects in it!'. Periodical: La Caricature, 14 March 1841//

hiphotos485257 Archimède riant des efforts , 19th century. Archimedes laughing at the efforts//

hiphotos485240 Réunion de Savants se proposant , 19th century. Les Hippophages - Meeting of scientists proposing to experiment with new food substances//

hiphotos465117 Archimède démontrant aux ingènieurs anglais , 19th century. Archimedes showing the English engineers how, in Syracuse, he raised not just one vessel but an entire fleet. (The Claw of Archimedes - also known as the iron hand - was an ancient weapon devised by Archimedes to defend the seaward portion of Syracuse's city walls against amphibious attack//

hiphotos011943 Chemical lecture; 'Scientific Researches! - New Discoveries in Pneumaticks! or - an Experimental Lecture on the Powers of Air!', 1802. A shocked audience witnesses experiments with laughing gas at the Royal Institution. A volunteer has a tube inserted into his mouth, the consequence of which is the blowing out of the seat of his trousers; a member of the audience holds his nose at the stink. Thomas Garnett is the lecturer and Humphry Davy is operating the hydraulic bellows filled with laughing gas. Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, the founder of the Royal Institution, is standing near the doorway.//

hiphotos015055 Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1881. As well as his better known work on evolution by natural selection, Darwin's (1809-1882) studies covered other subjects. In 1881 he published The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms. Cartoon from the Fancy Portraits series for Punch. (London 1881).//

hiphotos015171 'The Meeting of the Zoological Society, Hanover Square', London, 1885. The naturalist Richard Owen (1804-1892) is in the left foreground, next to Mr Punch, holding an Apteryx bursting from its egg. Owen was the first to coin the term dinosaur to describe the fossilized reptiles that had been discovered. He was a committed opponent of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. Cartoon from Punch. (London, 23 May 1885).//

hiphotos015174 'A Scientific Institution. During ye Lecture of an Eminent 'Savan', 1849. Richard Owen (1804-1892) British naturalist and anatomist, giving a Friday Evening Discourse on fossils at the Royal Institution, London. Owen made major contributions in the fields of anatomy and paleontology. He was responsible for first coining the word dinosaur (terrible lizard) in 1841 for the fossilized reptiles that had been discovered. Owen was opposed to Darwin's theories, believing that natural selection was insufficient to explain evolution. Cartoon from Punch. (London, 1849).//

hiphotos205396 'Bacon. (From a remarkably scarce Print.)', 1897. English philosopher, scientist and statesman Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) became Lord Chancellor in 1618. He is depicted here smoking a clay pipe. The Spanish introduced tobacco to Europe in the 1520s. From "The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett, with satirical illustrations by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1897]//

hiphotos212807 'Costume of the Glaciers', 1875. Caricature of British clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist William Buckland (1784-1856), 'scratched' by his friend and fellow geologist Thomas Sopwith, ('scratched' being a reference to grooves made by glaciers). The explanation reads: 'The rectilinear course of these grooves corresponds with the motions of an immense body, the momentum of which does not allow it to change its course upon slight resistance'. Buckland tried to reconcile the then generally accepted (at least by the Christian Church) date of Creation of 4004 BC with new geological discoveries. The two 'specimens' make fun of this: one was 'scratched' 33,333 years 'before the Creation', and the other was 'scratched by a cart wheel on Waterloo Bridge the day before yesterday'. Buckland is dressed in field gear with cape, top hat and fur boots, and a parcel containing maps of glaciers.//

hiphotos205356 'Discovery of the Laws of Gravitation by Isaac Newton', 1897. English scientist Isaac Newton (1642-1727) discovered gravity when he watched an apple fall, although it didn't actually hit him on the head. From "The Comic History of England" by Gilbert Abbott A Beckett, with satirical illustrations by John Leech. [Bradbury, Agnew & Co, London, 1897]//

hiphotos015051 Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1875. Darwin (1809-1882) was employed as naturalist on HMS Beagle from 1831-1836. He first made his name as a geologist, but is remembered for his momentous contributions to biology - primarily his demonstration that evolution has occurred and his discovery of the principle of natural selection of heritable variation as the cause of evolution. His famous book Origin of Species was published in 1859. In this cartoon from Punch, Darwin is portrayed with his head superimposed on the body of a monkey, referring to the controversy raging at the time over Darwin's theory that man is descended from apes. It also refers to his The Movement and Habits of Climbing Plants, published in 1875, which was an expansion of a paper which appeared in the Journal of the Linnean Society in 1865.//

hiphotos036736 The Small Physicist and The Vain Physicist, 1887. Published in History of Balloons by Gaston Tissandier, Paris, 1887.//

hiphotos013037 'A Sawrian', 1836. Cartoon on Gideon Mantell (1790-1852) the English geologist who discovered a saurian, the Iguanodon, near Cuckfield, Sussex, in 1820, and deduced from the teeth that it was a herbivore, not a carnivore like previously discovered dinosaurs. From Comic Annual by Thomas Hood. (London, 1836).//

hiphotos015068 Humphry Davy, British chemist and inventor, 1802. Davy (1778-1829) discovered the anaesthetic effects of laughing gas (nitrous oxide). In 1801 he was appointed lecturer at the Royal Institution, where he investigated, with his assistant Michael Faraday (1791-1867), his theory of volcanic action. Using electrolysis, Davy isolated the metals barium, calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium and strontium, as well as proving that chlorine was a chemical element. He is probably best known for his invention in 1815 of the miners' safety lamp, which enabled deeper, more gaseous seams to be mined without risk of explosion. Detail from a Gillray cartoon, New Discoveries in Pneumatics, showing Davy demonstrating the effects of laughing gas to a meeting of the Royal Institution, London.//