Statue of James Watt, Piccadilly, Manchester, England, about 1870
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Monuments and Gravestones |
Statue of James Watt, Piccadilly, Manchester, England, about 1870
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plaques, gravestones and so on mainly commemorating various scientists. There is no
particular rhyme or reason to the following photographs except that they might be of
interest to visitors to the Macleay Museum scientific instrument web pages. - Julian
Holland
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The Bohr family grave in the Assistens Kirkegård, Copenhagen, Denmark
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Charles Darwin was born at 'The Mount' on the outskirts of Shrewsbury, England, in 1809. This statue commemorating him stands outside the former Shrewsbury School (now Shrewsbury Library) and was unveiled in 1897. |
| Statue of Sir Humphry Davy in Penzance, Cornwall, England |
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Thomas Graham was a brilliant experimental chemist, pioneering laboratory-based chemical education at Glasgow University. His statue, designed by William Brodie, was erected in George Square, Glasgow, in 1872. |
| Statue of Helmholtz in Berlin where he became head of a new physics institute in 1871 |
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| Statue of the physicist Joseph Henry, in front of the
Smithsonian Institution's main building, known as the Castle. As the
first secretary of the Smithsonian, Henry encouraged research in a wide
range of disciplines including meteorology and anthropology.
Visit the Joseph Henry Papers Project web site |
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Statue of the Prussian explorer and scientist Alexander von Humboldt in Berlin |
Liebig's original laboratory and residence in Giessen is now a museum devoted to his life and work. The famous laboratory where his numerous students worked is in the wing at the extreme left. Visit the Liebig Museum website |
A descendant of Newton's famous apple tree
planted
in the grounds
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Hans Christian Ørsted (or Oersted), who discovered the relationship between electricity and magnetism in 1819, is buried in the Assistens Kirkegård, Copenhagen, the same parklike cemetery where Niels Bohr, Søren Kierkegaard, Hans Christian Anderson and Friedrich Kuhlau are buried.
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Röntgen, the discoverer of X-rays in 1895, is buried in the pleasant wooded cemetery in Giessen. |
Plaque commemorating Richard Trevithick, locomotive pioneer, London. Trevithick set up a circular railway or steam circus in Euston Square in the summer of 1808. |
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| James Watt's scientific skills first came to notice as a
mathematical and philosophical instrument maker at Glasgow University.
This statue designed by Chantrey was erected in George Square, Glasgow, in 1832. The unit of electrical power was named in his honour in 1882. |
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A typical piece of Victorian self-promotion! Cast-iron tablet beside the Whitby Museum, Yorkshire, England
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© Julian Holland, 2001-2005 |
