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Medallic Illustrations of the History of Science (First Series: XIXth and XXth Centuries) SixthArticleAuthor(s): George SartonSource: Isis, Vol. 12, No. 2 (May, 1929), pp. 320-322Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The History of Science SocietyStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/224789 .
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Medallic Illustrations of the History of Science.
(First Series: XIXth and XXth centuries). Sixth Article.
This collection of scientific medals began to appear in volume 8 of Isis. The fifth article appeared in volume 12, p. 146-8, pl. 6-9, 1929. The Editor will welcome photographs or suggestions for the fol- lowing parts of this series. It is intended to publish only medals having a sufficient scientific and artistic interest. Medals dedicated to scientists who are still living can not be published at once but will be considered for ulterior publication. GEORGE SARTON.
No. 30. (FRIEDRICH HEINRICH) ALEXANDER (Baron) VON HUM- BOLDT. Born, Berlin, I769; died, Berlin, I859. German naturalist, traveller, encyclopaedist. One of the founders of physical geography and of meteorology. Kosmos (I845, I847, I 850-58, I 862).
Artist : DANIEL FRIEDRICH Loos. German medallist; born in Altenburg, I735; died in Berlin, I8I9. (FORRER's Dictionary, vol. 3, 46I-65).
Date I805. Size 39 mm. Collection: American Numismatic Society, New York. Com-
municated by Mr. HOWLAND WOOD, New York.
Obv. Portrait (fig. 4I). FRIDER. HENRIC. ALEXANDER AB HUM-
BOLDT. Rev. Fig. 42. Novi orbis Democritus. In felicem reditum
Berolini MDCCCV. (The words Atlant. Ocean. can be read upon the globe).
No. 3 1. PASTEUR.
Artist: GEORGES HENRI PRUD'HOMME. French medallist. Born at Cap Breton, Landes. (FORRER, 4, 704-706, I909).
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No. 30. Fig. 4I and 42. A. VON HUMBOLDT.
Isis, Xii, P1. I2 Medallic Illustrations. vi.
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No. 3' . Fig. 43 and 44 PASTEUR.
Isis, xii, P1. 13 Medallic Illustrations. vi.
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MEDALLIC ILLUSTRATIONS 32I
Date: I9IO.
Size 73 X 52 mm. Collection: LYMAN C. NEWELL, Boston. Obv. Portrait (fig. 43). Louis PASTEUR, I822-I895. G. PRUD'
HOMME, 19IO.
Rev. (Fig. 44) G. PRUD'HOMME.
No. 32. PASTEUR.
Artist 0. ROTY. Date I922.
Size 38 mm. Collection: L. J. HENDERSON, Cambridge, Mass. Obv. Portrait (fig. 45). Rev. Centieme anniversaire de la naissance de PASTEUR.
27 decembre I822-I922.
No. 33. PIERRE CURIE (I859-I906). French physicist. Artist : SE'RAPHIN EMILE VERNIER. French medallist. Born,
Paris, I852. (FORRER, 6, 225-35, I9I6). Date I907. Size 47 X 32 mm.
Collection: Cabinet des Medailles, Paris. (Courtesy of Mme H. METZGER).
Obv. : Portrait (fig. 46). PIERRE CURIE. S. E. VERNIER, I907. Rev.: PIERRE CURIE. N' et mort 'a Paris, I5 mai i859, I9 avril
i906. Piezo-electricite. Principe de symetrie. Magnetisme. Radium et radioactivite.
Jcole municipale de physique et de chimie, I882-I905. Sor- bonne, I900. Prix Nobel, I903. Institut, I905.
No. 34. ERNST WILHELM VON BRUCKE. German physiologist.
Born in Berlin, I8I9; died in Vienna, I892. Physiological optics and acoustics; phonetics; physiology of colors and its application to the arts.
Artist: PETER BREITHUT. Austrian medallist, born at Krems, I869 (FORRER, I, 272, I904).
Date I9IO.
Size 66 mm. square.
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322 MEDALLIC ILLUSTRATIONS
Collection: L. J. HENDERSON, Cambridge, Mass. Obv.: Portrait (fig. 47). Das KK. Ministerium fiir Kultus
and Unterricht dem VIII. Intern. Physiologen Kongress. Wien I9IO.
Rev.: (fig. 48).
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