Science Source December 28, 2009 DVD

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1622. The title reads "exaltatio." Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1622. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1622. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1622. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1622. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

Apparatus of Greek alchemists from 100-300 A.D. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists searched...

The four elements, from an alchemical treatise. The classical Greek theory that all materials were made up of four elements persisted among philosophe...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1616. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1616. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1622. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1674. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1674. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

The title page from an alchemical treatise from 1674 called De Groene Leeuw of Het Licht der Philosophen. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecesso...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1622. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1674. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1674. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1622. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

An illustration from an alchemical treatise from 1622. Alchemy was the pseudo-scientific predecessor of chemistry. Among other pursuits, alchemists se...

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909), English poet.

Alice Liddell (1852-1934). Liddell was the inspiration for Alice in Lewis Carroll's childrens' book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." Carroll himsel...

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), British writer and creator of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes.

An illustration of a double oscillating steam engine, created by Elisha Graves Otis (1811-1861) as a "power plant" exclusively for elevators. Otis, an...

Chimneys tower above the rubble after the San Francisco earthquake of 1906. Fires raged for days after the quake. Around 30,000 buildings were destroy...

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar (1910-1995), Indian-born American astrophysicist. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1983 for his work on the structure a...

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855), English novelist. She wrote Jane Eyre and Villette, among other novels.

Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944), British astrophysicist. The Eddington limit, the natural limit to the luminosity of stars, is named in his honor...

Edward FitzGerald (1809-1883), English poet and writer, best known for his English translation of The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam.

Edwin H. Land (1909-1991) reveals his latest camera and cassette: movies in 90 seconds. May 9, 1977. Land was an American scientist who invented Polar...

A portrait of Elisha Graves Otis (1811-1861), who invented a safety device that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke. His impr...

Frank Harris (1856-1931), Irish writer, journalist and publisher. He was editor of The Fortnightly Review and wrote "My Life and Loves," a memoir whic...

Georges Cuvier (1769-1832), French zoologist, after an engraving by Chollet of 1830. Cuvier extended the work of Linnaeus in classification by groupin...

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest.

Gilbert Newton Lewis (1875-1946), American physical chemist. He coined the term "photon" for the smallest unit of radiant energy.

Michael Heidelberger (1888-1991), American immunologist. He is regarded as the father of modern immunology. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda.

Henrietta Lacks (1920-1951), the unwitting donor of cells from her cancerous tumor, which were cultured by George Otto Gey to form a cell line for med...

Hermann J. Oberth at the UFA Film Company, working on a demonstration rocket motor for the movie 'Frau in Mond.' Oberth (1894-1989) was a Transylvania...

Hermann J. Oberth (1894-1989), a Transylvanian physicist and a founder of the science and technology of rocketry and astronautics (space flight). This...

Hippocratic Oath. Twelfth-century Byzantine Greeks wrote the Hippocratic Oath in the form of a cross, trying to connect it to Christian ideas. Hippocr...

John Locke in 1704, in an engraving by H. Robinson from the original 1697 painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller (1646-1723), which hangs in a hall of Christ...

Korean world map, 17th-18th century.

Rene-Theophile-Hyacinthe Laennec (1781-1826), French physician and inventor of the stethoscope. This painting is by Theobald Chartran (1849-1907) and...

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829), French naturalist and an early proponent of the idea of evolution.

Lev Landau (1908-1968), Soviet physicist, who made fundamental contributions to the study of superfluidity and superconductivity. He received the 1962...

Anton Van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723), a Dutch tradesman and scientist from Delft, the Netherlands. He is considered the father of microbiology. Leeuwenho...

Leonhart Fuchs (1501-1566), German botanist, in a woodcut by Veit Rudolph Speckle. His work of 1542, "De Historia Stirpium," was significant in that i...

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898), writer of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," among other books. Carroll's real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He was a...

Thomas Linacre (1460-1524), founder of the Royal College of Physicians. He was a scholar and physician. Linacre College, Oxford, is named for him.

Young Linnaeus tired out after a day in the fields. Swedish botanist and physician Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778), later Von Linne, devised a classificatio...

German pharmacologist Otto Loewi (1873-1961), winner of the 1936 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of acetylcholine. Loewi's research was on t...

Thomas Babington Macaulay, (1800-1859), British poet, essayist, historian, Whig politician and a Member of Parliament for Edinburgh.