Valentin Haüy was the founder, in 1785, of the first school for the blind, the Institute for Blind Youth in Paris. In 1819, Louis Braille entered this school.
Artist: Boilly
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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Pierre-Joseph Desault 1738-1795 & Marie François Xavier Bichat 1771 -1802
Marie François Xavier Bichat was a French anatomist and pathologist, known as the father of modern histology. Although he worked without a microscope, Bichat distinguished 21 types of elementary tissues from which the organs of the human body are composed
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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Abraham Duquesne, marquis du Bouchet 1610-1688
French naval officer, who also saw service as an admiral in the Swedish navy. He was born in Dieppe, a seaport, in 1610, and was a Huguenot. He was the son of a naval officer and therefore became a sailor himself, spending his early years in merchant service
Artist: Boilly
Date:1822
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1178
Charles James Fox 1749-1806
Charles James Fox, styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.
Artist: Boilly
Date:
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Antoine Petit and Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets French physicians
Jean-Nicolas Corvisart-Desmarets was a French physician. Born in the French village of Dricourt in 1755, Corvisart translated Leopold von Auenbrugg’s Inventum Novum from Latin into French. Corvisart was especially fond of Auenbrugg’s use of chest percussion as a diagnostic tool, and began to perfect the technique.
Antoine Petit was a French physician, master of Joseph-Ignace Guillotin and Félix Vicq d’Azyr.
Size 13 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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Francois-Antoine Jecker 1765-1834
French manufacturer of scientific instruments,
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Boilly
Date:
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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