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Phrenological diagrams of the skull and brain, with three portraits: Laurence Sterne, a mathematician, and Shakespeare; exemplifying the faculties of wit, number and imagination respectively. Engraving by H. Sawyer after W. Byam, 1818.

A classical courtyard filled with natural philosophers, scientists and artists. Engraving after S. Le Clerc.

Two merchants and a woman at a table; representing arithmetic. Etching by C. Schut after himself.

Mensuration: a man using an inclinometer (?) and trigonometry to measure a water-tank (?) in a field. Engraving, ca.1760.

Mathematics: various surveying instruments. Engraving by Benard.

The brain seen from the underside, sectioned horizontally; with attention to the part associated by Hollander's system of phrenology with memory for numbers. Process print, 1901, after etching, 1809.

Ship-building: five kinds of quadrant (top), and two types of telegraph (below). Engraving by Turnbull.

A mathematician standing before a blackboard, on which he has drawn a diagram. Engraving by I.S. Klauber after Le Fort after F. Bol.

Abhandlungen der Mathematisch-physikalische Klasse der Königlich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.

Genetics and social structure : mathematical structuralism in population genetics and social theory / edited by Paul Ballonoff.

Visualised numerals / by Francis Galton.

Outlines of natural philosophy : being heads of lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh / by John Playfair.

Epistolarvm mathematicarvm fascicvlvs / Ioannis Poleni.

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Genetics and social structure : mathematical structuralism in population genetics and social theory / edited by Paul Ballonoff.

Visualised numerals / by Francis Galton.

Outlines of natural philosophy : being heads of lectures delivered in the University of Edinburgh / by John Playfair.

Epistolarvm mathematicarvm fascicvlvs / Ioannis Poleni.