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RM2HJCKDT–Diane Keaton (born 1946), American film actress, director and producer. She became famous starring in films by Woody Allen, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for 'Annie Hall' in 1977.
RMT96MF0–Facial Angles refers to the content of two lectures by Petrus Camper on August 1st and 8th in 1770 to the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. Camper's main points in his first lecture were that classical drawing lessons from the time of Vitruvius, including the teachings of Dürer and Perreault, were based on an incorrect assumption that the human head was oval at all ages, and he proceeded to prove this with his dimensions of the skulls.
RMT96MEJ–Facial Angles refers to the content of two lectures by Petrus Camper on August 1st and 8th in 1770 to the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. Camper's main points in his first lecture were that classical drawing lessons from the time of Vitruvius, including the teachings of Dürer and Perreault, were based on an incorrect assumption that the human head was oval at all ages, and he proceeded to prove this with his dimensions of the skulls.
RMT96MF6–Facial Angles refers to the content of two lectures by Petrus Camper on August 1st and 8th in 1770 to the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. Camper's main points in his first lecture were that classical drawing lessons from the time of Vitruvius, including the teachings of Dürer and Perreault, were based on an incorrect assumption that the human head was oval at all ages, and he proceeded to prove this with his dimensions of the skulls.
RMT96K56–Facial Angles refers to the content of two lectures by Petrus Camper on August 1st and 8th in 1770 to the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. Camper's main points in his first lecture were that classical drawing lessons from the time of Vitruvius, including the teachings of Dürer and Perreault, were based on an incorrect assumption that the human head was oval at all ages, and he proceeded to prove this with his dimensions of the skulls.
RMT96MEN–Facial Angles refers to the content of two lectures by Petrus Camper on August 1st and 8th in 1770 to the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. Camper's main points in his first lecture were that classical drawing lessons from the time of Vitruvius, including the teachings of Dürer and Perreault, were based on an incorrect assumption that the human head was oval at all ages, and he proceeded to prove this with his dimensions of the skulls.
RMT96K0N–Proportional drawings of heads in profile. Facial Angles refers to the content of two lectures by Petrus Camper on August 1st and 8th in 1770 to the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. Camper's main points in his first lecture were that classical drawing lessons from the time of Vitruvius, including the teachings of Dürer and Perreault, were based on an incorrect assumption that the human head was oval at all ages, and he proceeded to prove this with his dimensions of the skulls.
RMT96G8P–William Hunter's life class for the Royal Academy of Art at old Somerset House. William Hunter (May 23, 1718 - March 30, 1783) was a Scottish anatomist and physician. Hunter was trained in anatomy at St George's Hospital, London, specializing in obstetrics. His courtly manners and sensible judgement helped him to advance until he became the leading obstetric consultant of London. He died in 1783, at the age of 64. Mezzotint, 1783, after Johan Zoffany.
RM2HJCPCG–Dorothea Klumpke Roberts, circa 1886. Klumpke (1861-1942) was an American astronomer working in France. She was Director of the Bureau of Measurements at the Paris Observatory and was made a Chevalier de la L√©gion d'Honneur. In 1889, she became the first recipient of the Prix de Dames from the Societie des Astronomique de France. In 1893, she was made an Officier d'Academe of the Paris Academy of Sciences, a first for a woman. Colorized.
RM2NH90BE–Left to right: Joseph Mayer, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, and Karl Herzfeld in Washington, D.C. for the American Physical Society (APS) meeting, standing in front of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
RM2NH90C5–Left to right: Joseph Mayer, Maria Goeppert-Mayer, and Karl Herzfeld in Washington, D.C. for the American Physical Society (APS) meeting, standing in front of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
RMT96KWW–On the first canvas the head of a child, the head of an adult man, and the head of an old man were shown with their skulls above them, all in profile. Facial Angles refers to the content of two lectures by Petrus Camper on August 1st and 8th in 1770 to the Amsterdam Drawing Academy.
RMT96KX8–On the first canvas the head of a child, the head of an adult man, and the head of an old man were shown with their skulls above them, all in profile. Facial Angles refers to the content of two lectures by Petrus Camper on August 1st and 8th in 1770 to the Amsterdam Drawing Academy.
RM2HJCMT4–Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), American astronomer who discovered Comet 1847 VI. She was professor of astronomy at Vassar College, the first woman elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the first as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Illustration from 1885 by James Parton.
RM2HJCMT3–Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), American astronomer who discovered Comet 1847 VI. She was professor of astronomy at Vassar College, the first woman elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the first as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Illustration from 1885 by James Parton.
RM2HJCKXM–Maria Mitchell (1818-1889), American astronomer who discovered Comet 1847 VI. She was professor of astronomy at Vassar College, the first woman elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the first as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Illustration from 1885 by James Parton.
RMT96JCJ–Francois Jean Dominique Arago (February 26, 1786 - October 2, 1853), was a French mathematician, physicist, astronomer and politician. He was elected a member of the French Academy of Sciences, at the age of 23. The invention of the polariscope and discovery of Rotary polarization are due to Arago. His earliest physical researches were on the pressure of steam at different temperatures, and the velocity of sound.
RMT96FWK–The second canvas had the heads of two apes, an African Moor and a Kalmyk or Asian, again with their skulls drawn above them. Facial Angles refers to the content of two lectures by Petrus Camper on August 1st and 8th in 1770 to the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. Camper's main points in his first lecture were that classical drawing lessons were based on an incorrect assumption that the human head was oval at all ages.
RMT9642W–Charles Hutton (August 14,1737 - January 27, 1823) was an English mathematician. In 1764 he published his first work, The Schoolmasters Guide, or a Complete System of Practical Arithmetic, which in 1770 was followed by his Treatise on Mensuration both in Theory and Practice. In 1773 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and in the following year he was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London.
RMT96FWH–Petrus Camper (May 11, 1722 - April 7, 1789) was a Dutch physician, anatomist, physiologist, midwife, zoologist, anthropologist, paleontologist and a naturalist. On the first canvas the head of a child, the head of an adult man, and the head of an old man were shown with their skulls above them, all in profile. Facial Angles refers to the content of two lectures by Petrus Camper on August 1st and 8th in 1770 to the Amsterdam Drawing Academy.
RMT96FWJ–A canvas was brought out with three heads next to each other in profile with varying facial angles; 80 degrees, 90 degrees, and 100 degrees. Facial Angles refers to the content of two lectures by Petrus Camper on August 1st and 8th in 1770 to the Amsterdam Drawing Academy. Camper's main points in his first lecture were that classical drawing lessons were based on an incorrect assumption that the human head was oval at all ages.
RM2HJCMK8–Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) was a Russian mathematician, the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate degree in mathematics. In 1888 she won the Prix Bordin of the French Academy of Science for her groundbreaking paper On the Rotation of a Solid Body about a Fixed Point. In 1889 she was appointed Professor Ordinarius at Stockholm University, another groundbreaking position for a woman. Engraving from The Illustrated London News, 1884.
RM2HJCNP1–Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850-1891) was a Russian mathematician, the first woman in Europe to earn a doctorate degree in mathematics. In 1888 she won the Prix Bordin of the French Academy of Science for her groundbreaking paper On the Rotation of a Solid Body about a Fixed Point. In 1889 she was appointed Professor Ordinarius at Stockholm University, another groundbreaking position for a woman. Engraving from The Illustrated London News, 1884.
RMT9527E–Entitled: 'Betty Compson with umbrella, in bathing suit, facing slightly right, eating Eskimo Pie.' Betty Compson (March 19, 1897 - April 18, 1974) was an American actress and film producer. Most famous in silent films and early talkies, she is best known in her performances in The Docks of New York and The Barker, the latter earning a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. Her popularity allowed her to have creative control over her films as she was also able to produce.
RM2HJCJ2W–Author Doris Lessing at Stockholm Castle in 1982. Lessing (born 22 October 1919) is a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, and was characterized by the Swedish Academy as 'that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny.' Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
RM2HJCJ3B–Author Doris Lessing at Stockholm Castle in 1982. Lessing (born 22 October 1919) is a British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature, and was characterized by the Swedish Academy as 'that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny.' Lessing was the eleventh woman and the oldest person to ever receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
RM2HJCMDP–Architect Louis Kahn (1901 - 1974) sitting at a desk with architectural sketches. Circa 1970.
RMT965T0–Erastus Brigham Bigelow (April 2, 1814 - December 6, 1879) was an American inventor of weaving machines. He showed an inventive genius at the early age of 14, when he invented a machine to manufacture piping cord. He then devised a hand loom for suspender webbing. His work on Stenography (1832), a short manual on shorthand writing, was written and published about this time. In 1838, he invented a power loom for weaving knotted counterpanes, and later a power loom to weave coach lace.
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