A red sun-like shape with a dial at the center and a fleur-de-lis on top is at the top center of this bookplate. A three-lined red square border surrounds this and the text beneath. This library was founded by Bern Dibner in 1941 and contains books on the History of Science. After Dibner's death in 1988, the collection was divided between the Smithsonian, MIT, and the Huntington.
Subject (Name):
Burndy Library, Dibner, Bern, b. 1897, and Yale School of Medicine
Title above image., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):
Craniology, Phrenology, Scientists, Baldness, and Wigs
Title derived from volume title., Frontispiece for: Essai sur l'ectricité́ des corps, Paris, 1746., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Scales & Balances; Weights & measures.
Publisher:
Chez les Frères Guérin
Subject (Topic):
Electricity, Experiments, Biomagnetism, Spectators, Scientists, and Scientific equipment
A plaque with two seashells adorning the top ends and two shells and a starfish completing the bottom. Moving down, there is a window looking out at trees and a steeple in the distance. Beneath this is a bookshelf with several shelves of books and various items on the top shelf. In the foreground is a coat of arms. A large flower is on either side of the plaque. In the middle, alongside the plate owner's name, are two circles with microscopic creatures inside. Beneath this is the image of a ship on the high seas dragging a net amongst 27 various marine creatures in the water.
Subject (Name):
Kofoid, Charles Atwood and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Bacteria, Books, Libraries, Nature, Scientists, and Ships
A room featuring a microscope and two mounted butterfly specimens in a box. An open book is to the lower right. In the background is a large bookcase filled with books, and various instruments about. To the right of the shelf is an open window looking out onto an open field, some trees, and a distant windmill.
Subject (Name):
Uppingham School Natural Science Society
Subject (Topic):
Books, Microscopes, Nature, Schools, Scientists, Societies, and Windows
Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication from item., Although the text refers to "Doctor S.", which could be Johann Spurzheim, the caricature resembles F. J. Gall., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Spinsters.
Publisher:
Pubd. by Harrison Isaacs, Charles Street Soho
Subject (Name):
Gall, F. J. 1758-1828. (Franz Joseph),
Subject (Topic):
Phrenology, Quacks and quackery, Anatomy, Comparative, Single women, Straw hats, Scientists, Wigs, Dogs, and Scientific equipment
John Crerar Library Chicago Yale University. School of Medicine
Published / Created:
1896
Collection Title:
Bookplate Collection
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Prints & Photographs
Description:
A portrait of John Crerar within a beaded border at center. This is surrounded by leaves and grasses, as well as the phrase Great is the Gift that Bringeth Knowledge. Below the portrait, surrounded by books, is an open book with the quote "'Non est Mortuus qui Scientiam Vivificavit" --Ptolemæus".
Subject (Name):
Crerar, John, 1827-1889 and Yale School of Medicine
Subject (Topic):
Books, History of medicine, John Crerar Library., Medical colleges, Medical libraries, Nature, Portraits, and Scientists
"Satire of a mineralogist, sitting on a rock to the left, smoking pipe, body parts made of different kinds of minerals."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Imperfect; imprint statement erased from sheet. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1919,0813.4., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., and Watermark: 1827.
Publisher:
Pubd. by C. Tilt, Fleet St. and Printed by G.E. Madeley
Subject (Topic):
Arcimboldesque figures, Pipes (Smoking), Minerals, and Scientists
Seeking truth through alchemy, philosophical speculation, mysticism
Description:
Title from text in image., Alternate title supplied by curator., From: Henricus Khunrath, Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae., Pencil notation verso: [Illegible] Dr. H Khunrath 1602., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Prévost, Benoît Louis, approximately 1735-1804?, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1772]
Call Number:
Print00670
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title supplied by curator., Frontispiece to: Philippe Etienne Lafosse, Cours d'hippiatrique, Paris: Edme, 1772., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Title and date from item., From: Album - Exhibition Set, Venereal Diseases and the Fight Against Them. Published in Moscow by the People's Committee on Health, 1928., Paul Ehrlich discovered a cure for syphilis in 1909., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Narkomzdrav, RSFSR
Subject (Geographic):
Soviet Union.
Subject (Name):
Ehrlich, Paul, 1849-1925,
Subject (Topic):
Sexually transmitted diseases, Syphilis, and Scientists
Title and date from item., From: Album - Exhibition Set, Venereal Diseases and the Fight Against Them. Published in Moscow by the People's Committee on Health, 1928., Albert Neisser discovered the cause of gonorrhea., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Narkomzdrav, RSFSR
Subject (Name):
Neisser, Albert, 1855-1916,
Subject (Topic):
Sexually transmitted diseases, Gonorrhea, and Scientists
Title and date from item., From: Album - Exhibition Set, Venereal Diseases and the Fight Against Them. Published in Moscow by the People's Committee on Health, 1928., Schaudinn, with Erich Hoffmann, discovered the organism that causes syphilis., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Narkomzdrav, RSFSR
Subject (Geographic):
Soviet Union.
Subject (Name):
Schaudinn, Friedrich Richard, 1871-1906,
Subject (Topic):
Sexually transmitted diseases, Syphilis, and Scientists
Title devised by curator., Date supplied by curator., Original work created: 1558., Place of production based on artist's country of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Alchemist's Laboratory., and Notation (ink on vellum) on frame: Tr wi pl B.
