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Two portraits of Max the a long-time resident of the Paris menagerie, memorialized by French zoologist--& 's Milne-Edwards.

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2021-10-13

Charles Atwood Kofoid, marine invertebrate zoologist who helped establish , is 's

Kofoid was also a rare book collector & designed an incredible personal bookplate featuring various sea creatures!

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2021-10-11

Johann Friedrich Esper, a German was born in 1732. Esper discovered the bones of an extinct species of cave bear in a Bavarian cave. Learn more about Esper in his profile: https://t.co/c9w37BJ4G8

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2021-10-07

Johann Friedrich Esper, German physician & paleontologist who discovered the bones of an extinct species of cave bear (Ursus spelaeus, whose jaw is shown below) in a Bavarian cave, is 's

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2021-10-06

Denis Diderot, French philosophe & editor of the Encyclopédie, is 's

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2021-10-05

Arnout Vosmaer, Dutch naturalist who supervised the menagerie of King William IV, is 's

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2021-09-23

Inigo Jones, an English was born in 1573. Jones is noted for being the first to introduce Italian architectural style into Great Britain. Learn more about Jones in his profile: https://t.co/Yxb3uMAnvV

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2021-07-16

Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish was born in 1577. Rubens was one of the best-educated artists of the Learn more about Rubens in his Profile: https://t.co/Qa4Gfsr7ue

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2021-06-28

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Check out 's profile of Karl Landsteiner, the Austrian physician who isolated the polio virus & confirmed the existence of blood types!

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2021-06-14

Francis Lister Hawks, American Episcopal priest who wrote the official narrative of Matthew Perry's 1852-54 expedition to is 's

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2021-06-10

Stefano della Bella, an Italian artist and engraver, was born in 1610. Della Bella designed and etched the frontispiece to Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (1632). Learn more in his profile: https://t.co/PdJhe3lnbS

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2021-05-18

Eugène Delacroix, a French artist, was born in 1798. Delacroix is known as one of the most important figures of French Romanticism. Learn more about Delacroix in his profile: https://t.co/4RVe1NYi5Q

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2021-04-27

"The boundaries between science and art often overlap, to the benefit of both..." -

Eugène Delacroix, French Romantic artist with a passion for is 's

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2021-04-26

Louis Thomas Jerôme Auzoux, French anatomist who became famous for manufacturing papier-mâché anatomical models, is 's

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2021-04-07

Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and author of The New American Practical Navigator (which remains in print over 200 yrs later!), is 's

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2021-03-26

Ashton Lever (an English natural history collector) *and* Sarah Stone (an English watercolor artist & illustrator) are 's Scientists of the Day!

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2021-03-05

George Ehret, German botanical artist whose painting of a tri-petal magnolia (seen here) appears in Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, was born in 1708.

Learn more in 's profile: https://t.co/ljQQjxerzR

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2021-01-31

Auguste Piccard, a Swiss physicist, balloonist, and the inspiration for one of fiction's most famous absent-minded professors (#Tintin's Prof. Tournesol/Calculus), is 's

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2021-01-28

Max von Laue, German physicist who received the 1914 in for his research into X-ray crystallography, is our

(Contrary to this clerihew, we can not confirm that he ever owned a Chihuahua...)

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2020-10-09