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Eugène Delacroix, a French artist, was born #onthisday in 1798. Delacroix is known as one of the most important figures of French Romanticism. Learn more about Delacroix in his #ScientistoftheDay profile: https://t.co/4RVe1NYi5Q
#histSTM #sciart #zoology
These beautiful watercolor sketches of the Linda Hall Library were painted by Judith Coe, a local artist who found inspiration in the Library’s arboretum. We invite you to walk around the arboretum to see spring in full bloom.
Happy #Thanksgiving, everyone!
We hope that you all are all enjoying a safe and relaxing holiday!
In honor of #TurkeyDay, here's an illustration from Charles-Lucien Bonaparte's American #Ornithology, published between 1825 and 1833.
#histSTM #sciart
#turkey #birds
Max von Laue, German physicist who received the 1914 #NobelPrize in #Physics for his research into X-ray crystallography, is our #ScientistOfTheDay.
(Contrary to this clerihew, we can not confirm that he ever owned a Chihuahua...)
https://t.co/LaqT1EScWk
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@DanielKronauer We're also big Merian fans! She was prominently featured in an exhibition on women & #sciart that we organized w/our friends @mobotgarden.
https://t.co/cpCeke7O85
Rumor has it that @DanielKronauer's new book on army #ants includes an illustration from our History of Science Collection, specifically this image from Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (1705).
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https://t.co/8bzw7IQTRQ
#histSTM #sciart https://t.co/kV5zrdsBP6
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen...please enjoy this moment of #Venn!
(John Venn, English mathematician, philosopher, and diagram namesake, was born #OnThisDay in 1834.)
https://t.co/7DFE090usC
#histSTM #philsci #logic
#ICYMI: Sarah Anne Drake, English botanical illustrator who specialized in #orchids, is our #ScientistOfTheDay!
https://t.co/uf2Ij5pHNu
#histSTM #sciart
#WomenInSTEM #botany
M.C. Escher, Dutch graphic artist and creator of mathematically inspired illustrations, is our #ScientistOfTheDay!
https://t.co/FqPAcxqgOF
#histSTM #arthistory #tessellations
We move on now to perhaps the most famous astronomical card game: Urania's Mirror!
@RoyalAstroSoc has a complete set of these beautifully illustrated cards. Learn more about it here: https://t.co/dyytRPYb1Q
#histSTM #histastro
#UrsaMajor #Perseus