Thony Christie

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Aging freak who fell in love with the history of science and now resides mostly in 16th century Nürnberg.

Cover of Reading the Mind of God
Portrait of John Dee
Heliotropic telescope on the left. On the right Scheiner’s acknowledgement that Grienberger was the inventor
Portrait of Rembert Dodoens
Portrait of Blaise Pascal
The heptadecagon, the regular seventeen sided polygon
Cover of Peuerbach's Theoricarum novarum planetarum (New Planetary Theory) the first ever printed maths book
Book cover of The Board of Longitude: Science, Innovation and Empire
Portrait of Abraham De Moivre
Dürer self portrait
The title page of John Speidell's A Geometricall Extraction
A Russian postal stamp with a portrait of al-Khwarizmi
Cover of Builder of Heavens: How Eise Eisinga Created the Greatest Planetarium of his Time
Newton's own copy of the 1st edition of Principia with his annotations
Picture of the Pillsbury Doughboy
Portrait of Henry Stuart c. 1610
Portrait of Isaac Newton by Godfrey Kneller 1689
Cover of Violet Moller's "Inside the Stargazer's Palace."
Emery Molyneux's first printed terrestrial globe
Cover of Copernicus' De revolutionibus
Portrait of Galileo by Francesco Porcia
Cover of Jerry Brotton' Four Points of the Compass
A drawing of the reflecting telescope that Newton presented to the Royal Society
Portrait of Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Perspectograph made by Ralph Greatorex for Christopher Wren
Sir Isaac Newton. when Bachelor of Arts in Trinity College, Cambridge. Engraved by B. Reading from a Head painted by Sir Peter Lily in the Possession of the Right Honorable Lord Viscount Cremorne.
The cover of A Mind in Motion – from DNA to the Brain CRICK
Cover of "The Origin and Significance of Zero"
Portrait of Isaac Barrow by Mary Beale
An engraving of a portrait of Johannes Kepler from a 1620 painting that was given to the Strasbourg Library in 1627, artist unknown.
Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg main building from Blaeu's Atlas Maior (1663)
Front cover of Castel-Branco's book showing sketch of Great White Shark head dissected by Steno in Florence
B/W photo of Christine Ladd-Franklin
A suitably regal first Royal Society President, portrait of William Brouncker, 2nd Viscount Brouncker after Peter Lely
Engraved portrait of Elias Allen by Wenceslas Hollar surrounded by his tools and the instruments he made
Cover of Katy Barrett's book "Looking for Longitude"
Portrait of Christiaan Huygens by Bernard Vaillant (1686)
Portrait of Blaise Pascal artist unknown
Horizontal compass sundial compendium made by Charles Whitwell
Left: engraved portrait of René Descartes Right: title page of Principia Philosophiæ
The Book Cover of Philip Ball's Alchemy: An Illustrated History of Elixirs, Experiments, and the Birth of Modern Science
Cover of Talking Newton on Tour
Astronomical compendium made for Robert Devereaux with his coat of arms engrave inside the lid
Cover of Benjamin Wardhaugh's Counting: Humans, History and the Infinite Lives of Numbers
Ibn Sahl's manuscript of his discovery of the law of refraction
Album cover Jimi Hendrix Experience: Are You Experienced
Ornate, formal portrait of Sir Robert Dudley