This database is designed to explore the visual conventions of the depiction of Scientists. It starts in 1850 and will be as contemporary as it can be.

DEFINITIONS

SYNONYMS, INVECTIVE, SLANG

QUOTES, SAYINGS, FABLES, PHRASES, BON MOTS

Visual examples will be shown in thumb nail form, and where possible, there will be an enlarged image of the text that accompanies it - whether the advertising copy or explanatory caption. The date of the image and the context will be found on the enlarged JPEG.

For the moment, I will post the images and present the Information attached to the image. When sufficient images and verbatim texts are in place, I hope to establish a critical overview.

Copyright has been sought wherever possible but many of the images come from an old scrapbook, and from obscure periodicals which I knew would achieve fame some day.