Fig. 23.1 Left: Konstantin Edvardovich Tsiolkovsky (1857–1935), an almost deaf mathematics teacher in provincial Russia but a remarkable space visionary (from Tass-Sovfoto). Right: sketch of a spacecraft made by Tsiolkovsky…
Fig. 22.1 Weekly admissions of patients with poliomyelitis to the Blegdam Hospital in Copenhagen in July to December 1952. Note the very rapid increase in the first part of August….
Fig. 21.1 From left to right: Arthur Otis, Hermann Rahn, and Wallace Fenn at the 1963 Fall meeting of the American Physiological Society in Coral Gables, Florida. (From [31]) 21.2…
Fig. 16.1 Professor Jules Janssen en route to the Grands Mulets (3050 m) on Mont Blanc during a reconnaissance. The difficulties of the route can be seen. From Vivian [24] Only…
Fig. 18.1 Thomas Holmes Ravenhill as a captain in Royal Army Medical Corps. This photograph was taken 6 years after his period in the mines. (Courtesy of Marjorie Rosenthal) Table…
Fig. 12.1 Antoine Laurent Lavoisier (1747–1794) with his wife Marie-Anne (1759–1836). On the far left is the drawing board used by Marie-Anne. On the far right is a glass jar…
Fig. 20.1 Joseph Barcroft (1872–1947). Photograph by Bassano Ltd. By permission of the National Portrait Gallery 20.2 Glass Chamber Experiment of 1920 This is one of the most colorful episodes…
Fig. 9.1 Joseph Black (1728–1799). (From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Black_b1728.jpg) Black’s pioneering work on carbon dioxide assures him a major place in the history of physiology. However he did much more. In fact…
Fig. 19.1 George I. Finch during the 1922 expedition. He is wearing a jacket of his own design filled with eiderdown. This was ridiculed by A. R. Hinks as a…
Fig. 10.1 Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742–1786). This is an engraving by Evald Waldemar Hansen. From [9] Another reason for Scheele’s somewhat nebulous reputation is that he was rather self-effacing and…
