Mathematical instrument posters & prints

An inventor of mathematical instruments Pietro Paolini

'Superdigit' mathematical calculator Robert Flower

System of Astronomy Anonymous

Cruger's azimuth quadrant A Steck

Surveying, early 17th century Unknown

System of Astronomy Anonymous

Using a quadrant with a plumb bob to calculate the height of a tower by triangulation, 1551 Unknown

Surveying and timekeeping, 1551 Unknown

Weighing with a steelyard, 1547 Gaultherius Rivius

Surveying, early 17th century Unknown

Blaise Pascal Calculating Machine Anonymous

Forms of astrolabe in use for surveying, 1650 Unknown

Surveying, 1551 Unknown

Title page of The Description and Use of the Sector by Edmund Gunter, 1636 Unknown

Measuring the distance from ship to shore, using a quadrant marked with shadow-scales, 1598 Unknown

Astrology: Various Instruments and Diagrams Giorgione

Pierre de Fermat, 17th century French mathematician, 1870 Unknown

Ecole des Ponts-et-Chaussees, Paris, 1894 Unknown

Sir Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, c1700 Jacobus Houbraken

Blaise Pascal, 17th century French mathematician, physicist and religious philosopher, 1878 Unknown

System of Astronomy Anonymous

Titlepage of 'The Cosmographical Glass', 1559 John the Elder Bettes

Building master Hieronymus of Augsburg Albrecht Dürer

Scientist with an electrical instrument, 1780s Anonymous

Kepler and Brahe at work together (c1600), c1870 Anonymous

Sir Isaac Holden, 1868 Samuel Sidley

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, German physicist and physiologist, 1907 Unknown

Elias Allen, 1666 Wenceslaus Hollar

Allegory of Mathematics, early 17th century Bernardo Strozzi

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, c1900 Unknown

Title page of Samuel Sturmy, Mariners Magazine, London, 1669 Samuel Sturmy

Illustration to the first edition of Experimenta Nova von Otto von Guericke, 1672 Anonymous

Frontispiece of A New System of Mathematicks by Jonas Moore, 1681 Unknown

Early Math Calculator with Handle Anonymous

Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist, inventing the mercury barometer, 1643 (1873) Unknown

Instrument for perspective drawing James Peacock