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  2. Benjamin Franklin Drawing Electricity from the Sky - Wikipedia

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    The painting is an example of a history painting, but as West had done in the past with works such as in his 1770 The Death of General Wolfe, he strays from the truth and embellishes many elements for added dramatic effect. Franklin was in his forties and with his son when he conducted the experiment, but West paints him with white hair and ...

  3. An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump - Wikipedia

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    An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump is a 1768 oil-on-canvas painting by Joseph Wright of Derby, one of a number of candlelit scenes that Wright painted during the 1760s. The painting departed from convention of the time by depicting a scientific subject in the reverential manner formerly reserved for scenes of historical or religious ...

  4. Pasteur's portrait by Edelfelt - Wikipedia

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    Pasteur's portrait by Edelfelt is the best-known portrait of the French chemist Louis Pasteur.Painted by Albert Edelfelt (1854–1905) in 1885 the painting shows Pasteur in his laboratory at the rue d'Ulm, surrounded by his experimental apparatus, the innovative laboratory glassware used in the experimental methods, developed by him on the field of bacteriology in the late 19th century. [1]

  5. 30 Famous Paintings And Their Real-Life Locations By ‘The ...

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    Image credits: culturaltutor The Church at Auvers by Vincent van Gogh (1890), the first famous painting in the list by Cultural Tutor, was done by the painter during his visit to Auvers.Van Gogh ...

  6. A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery - Wikipedia

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    It is now in the Derby Museum and Art Gallery [1] The painting preceded his similar An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (National Gallery, London). The first of Wright's candlelit masterpieces, Three Persons Viewing the Gladiator by Candlelight, was painted in 1765, and showed three men studying a small copy of the "Borghese Gladiator".

  7. The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp - Wikipedia

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    The painting is regarded as one of Rembrandt's early masterpieces. In the work, Nicolaes Tulp is pictured explaining the musculature of the arm to a group of doctors. Some of the spectators are various doctors who paid commissions to be included in the painting. The painting is signed in the top-left hand corner Rembrant. f[ecit] 1632.

  8. Foucault pendulum - Wikipedia

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    The pendulum was introduced in 1851 and was the first experiment to give simple, direct evidence of the Earth's rotation. Foucault followed up in 1852 with a gyroscope experiment to further demonstrate the Earth's rotation. Foucault pendulums today are popular displays in science museums and universities. [1]

  9. Relativity (M. C. Escher) - Wikipedia

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    Relativity is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in December 1953. The first version of this work was a woodcut made earlier that same year. [1] It depicts a world in which the normal laws of gravity do not apply. The architectural structure seems to be the centre of an idyllic community, with most of its ...