Published in the illustrated journal, Once A Week. In 19th century Victorian England, the average citizen gained much of his/her knowledge from the pages of newspapers and illustrated magazines of the day. One such journal was Once A Week, where from 1868 to 1873 a series of contemporary 'Caricature Portraits of Eminent Public Men' were featured-all drawn by Frederick Waddy, and each subject accompanied by a short biography. Charles Darwin would become one such subject of Waddy's pen after the 1871 publication of Darwin's Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. By exaggerating Darwin's prominent features-his long beard, heavyset eyebrows, and large forehead-Waddy, as well as other graphic artists of the day, created an ape-like image of Darwin. Such images of Darwin would very quickly come to represent the theory of evolution itself-or 'Darwinism' in popular terms, a word coined by Thomas Henry Huxley, who reviewed Darwin's 1859 On the Origin of Species. Thanks to this and other Darwin caricatures, his persona as well as his publications became very popular, while other prominent English evolutionists such as Huxley, Alfred Russel Wallace, and Herbert Spencer never attained such notoriety.
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AHS9.1-34
Title
John Todd and Olga Taussky-Todd in their Caltech office.
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JOT-1
Title
Curved wind tunnel for studying air turbulence
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This wind tunnel was designed and built by Dr. Frank Watendorf. Photo by World Wide Photos.
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10.11-3
Title
Bust of Pithecanthropus
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From photo album of A. H. Sturtevant.
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AHS10.1-7
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
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Guido Munch and Radhakrishnan in the snow at Mammoth. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
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10.21.2-45
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
'Don't talk to me before I have my coffee' - Radhakrishnan facing the morning at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
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10.21.2-46
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
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Radhakrishnan and Per Maltby at the Owens Valley Radio Observatory. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
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10.21.2-47
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
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Radhakrishnan in his Pasadena apartment. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
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10.21.2-48
Title
Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO), construction
Abstract
Radhakrishnan in his Pasadena apartment. Photo by J. A. Roberts; used by permission.
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10.21.2-49
Title
Grote Reben at Owen Valley Radio Observatory
Abstract
Radio astronomy.
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OVRO1.1-8
Title
Ian Campbell
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Campbell, petrologist, served as executive officer for the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences for several years in the 1940s and 1950s, in addition to being Acting Chairman in 1951-1952. Campbell left Caltech in 1959 to become California 's State Geologist.
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10.41-119
Title
Title page of Federico Commandino's Italian translation of Euclid's Elements
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Commandino, described as the most competent mathematician among all Renaissance translators, produced his Italian text from Greek editions. Italian was the first vernacular language into which Euclid was translated.
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RB-E1575-1
Title
Diagram of the human hand, from Giordano Bruno's discussion of the properties of the number 5 in De monade numero et figura.
Abstract
De monade numero et figura (On the Monad, Number and Figure) is part of the trilogy of Latin verse works published in Frankfurt in 1591 and considered to be Bruno's philosophical testament. In the De monade Bruno discusses Pythagorean number symbolism and the meanings of the numbers 1 to 10.
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RB-GB1591
Title
Optical shop
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10.11.1-1
Title
Illustration of Torbern Bergman's chemical apparatus from Opuscula Physica et Chemica.
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This translation from the original Latin is by Edmund Cullen. It includes notes and illustrations by Cullen and was published in 1784 by J. Murray, London.
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RB-TB1784
Title
Enrico Volterra with friends
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Enrico Volterra (far right) in Italy on a recreational car trip with some friends.
ID number
EV8.2-3
Title
Athenaeum library
Abstract
From article "the Athenaeum: Pasadena's Social Rendez vous for Town and Gown", by William B. Munro, in California Arts and Architecture, March 1932
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30.1-73
Title
Athenaeum library
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From a brochure, "The Athenaeum", undated
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30.1-74
Title
Board of Trustees, 2009
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Annual Meeting, Torrey Pines, California. Top Row: G. Elbaz, M. Chang, L. van Amerongen, B. Inman, R. Chess, J. Bryson, A. Lidow, C. Trimble, N. Rising. 3rd Row: P. Pizarro. J. Kutler, S. Ride, M. Lipper, C. Townes, A. Goldstein, D. Lee, R. Bonner, L. Lavigne, J. Rothenberg. 2nd Row: L. Dyer, P. Neches, S. Ross, P. Norton, K. Kresa, S. Malcom, B. Davidow, D. Rosenberg, Y. Liao. Front Row: H. Brown, T. Jenkins, S. Resnick, G. Wilson, R. Merkin, S. Hufstedler, J.-L. Chameau, L. Kirkbride, T. Everhart, S. Woolsey, P. Kaufman.
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20.14.1-34
Title
Board of Trustees, 2006
Abstract
Annual Meeting, Pasadena, Ca. Top Row: C. Trimble, K. Kresa, S. Ross, S. Onderdonk, B. Gross, P. Neches, J. Diekman, P. Brest, M. Lipper, P. Norton, A. Goldstein, G. Argyros, B. Inman. 2nd Row: S. Rawn, T. Jenkins, R. Chess, L. Van Armerongen, J. Bryson, M. Stern, B. Rosen, L. Kirkbride, G. Wilson, F. Hameetman, G. Moore, J. Kutler, G. Weldon, S. Woosley. Front Row: D. Lee, D. Tang, F. Kayyem, H. Brown, C. Miller, J.-L. Chameau, S. Resnick, B. Davidow, R. Linde, W. Weisman, S. Malcom, S. Hufstedler
