Public Domain Images from Science History of the Universe
October 18, 2009
Stuff Happens! I’ve had a child with the flu and a busy weekend. The freebie illustrations that normally are delivered on Friday are getting delivered today. The selection of copyright free images is from the public domain book titled “The Science-History of the Universe” by Francis Rolt-Wheeler, Copyright 1910, The Current Literature Publishing Company, New York.
From page 254 is an illustration of the Arabic Astrolabe. The illustration shows a mechanism for studying the stars, astronomy.
The illustration above from page 51 seems to add a little bit of humor to galley division (math which I know nothing about).
From page 112, this drawing shows how Kepler took Pythagoras theory of “the five bodies in the sphere” and compared them to the orbit of 5 worlds.
The illustration above is from page 113. It shows the inside of Kepler’s Cosmographicum. The previous illustration was the entire machine.
This illustration from page 209 shows Heron’s Eolipile. The machine is from the 2nd century B.C. It may have been the beginning of the steam engine. Water inside the hallow ball is heated so that steam is forced out of the narrow opening at the top.
The illustrations are from a pre-1923 copyright book. The images should be copyright-free. All the images have been uploaded to my flickr page. They have been attributed to Creative Commons. If you click on the image, you will be taken to the image on my flickr page where you can chose the size of image to download for free.
