XEE4159824: Order of mobilization in France September 02, 1939 - Order of mobilization generale, 1939 - Begin of the Second World War: order of mobilization generale in France for September 2, 1939 intended for all men not present under the flags and belonging to the arms of land, sea and air including maritime registrants, men belonging to the colonial troops and auxiliary service men, Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4157833: Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) at the Elysian Fields - Reception de Voltaire aux champs Elysees by Henri IV (1553-1610): in the background Louis XIV, King of France, 1638-1715; Louis XV, King of France, 1710-1774, Peter I, Emperor of Russia, 1672-1725 Corneille, Pierre, 1606-1684 1622-1673, Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778 - engraving of Louis François Sebastien Fauvel (1753-1838), Fauvel, Louis François Sebastien (1753-1838) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4187417: Help by Jacques Cassini dit Cassini II (1677-1756) Louis XIV dit le King Soleil (King Soleil or Louis the Great, 1638-1715) observes an eclipse of sun using an astronomical bezel on the terrace of the castle of Marly surrounds the ladies of the Court of which Francoise d'Aubigne, Marquise (Madame) de Maintenon (1635-1719 May 3 1715. Chromotypography in “” Le Roy Soleil”” (Louis XIV) by Gustave Toutwelve, Illustration by Maurice Leloir (1853-1940), 1904. Collection Privee. - French king Louis XIV (1638-1715) and Jacques Cassini (1677-1756), French astronomer, observing an eclipse, Marly Castle, France, illustration by Maurice Leloir, Leloir, Maurice (1853-1940) / Bridgeman Images
XEE4139815: Liquid balance: Archimede principle (pushing bodies into water). While taking his bath, Archimede of Syracuse (287 BC-212 BC) noticed that his leg weighed heavier out of the water than in the water and cried “Eureka! “. Anonymous illustration from 1925. Private collection., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images
XEE4136631: Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727), philosopher and mathematician in “Portraits et histoire des hommes utile: hommes et femmes de tous pays et de tous conditions, qui acquis des droits à la recognition des hommes” published and propages by the Societe Montyon et Franklin in 1833. Private collection., Anonymous / Bridgeman Images