Oxford Science Archive (page 41)

Dr Lyon Playfair, (c1850-c1880?) G Cook

Dr John Jeffries, American balloonist, 1786 Unknown

Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, 1887 Unknown

Double inclined plane for moving tub boats from one level to another on a canal, 1796 Unknown

Dorothea Klumpke Roberts, American mathematician and astronomer, 1903 Unknown

Donati's comet of 1858 viewed over St Paul's Cathedral, London, 1884 Unknown

Don John of Austria, 16th century Spanish soldier, 17th century Unknown

Domestic Fowl, c1850 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins

Dockers unloading tea in London Docks, 1889 Unknown

Dockers unloading sugar at West India Docks, London, 1889 Unknown

Dmitiri Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1834-1907), Russian chemist, c1900s Unknown

Dmitiri Ivanovich Mendeleyev (1834-1907), Russian chemist, c1900s Unknown

Divers salvaging guns from the seabed, c1855 Unknown

Distillation, 1882 Anonymous

Distillation, 1500 Unknown

Distillation, 1500 Unknown

Distillation, 1500 Unknown

Distillation, 1500 Unknown

Distillation of Oil of Vitriol (sulphuric acid or H2S04), 1651 Unknown

Distillation of Nitric Acid, 1683 Unknown

Dispatch vessel HMS Iris, c1880 Unknown

Diseases of the potato, c1920 Unknown

Discovery of the principle of the telescope, 17th century (1863) Unknown

Discovery of a woolly mammoth, 1779 (c1870) Unknown

Dionysius Lardner, Irish-born scientific writer, 1835 Unknown

Diesel engine: internal combustion engine invented by Rudolph Diesel in 1897 (c1910) Unknown

Diagram of William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone's five-needle telegraph, 1837, (19th century) Unknown

Diagram of the Earth during the Carboniferous period, 1922 Unknown

Detail of Jupiter and its inner satellite lo Unknown

Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah by earthquake, 1493 Anonymous

Design for a pendulum clock, 1673 Anonymous

Descartes' system of the universe, 17th century, (1761) Unknown

Descartes' representation of the antagonistic eye muscles, 1692 Unknown

Descartes' model of the Universe, 1668 Unknown

Descartes' illustration of how the distance of an object is perceived with binocular vision, 1692 Unknown

Descartes' idea of vision, 1692 Unknown