Art
Drawing by Leonardo da Vinci of a man inside a circle with outstretched arms and legs

The Brilliant, Groundbreaking, and Wildly Overrated Leonardo da Vinci

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Ad for L’Insectoline

Biting Words
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People wearing half-chest binders

Redefining Nude
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Europium (III) Hydroxide [Eu(OH)₃] under UV Light

Critical Metals: The Chemistry of Light
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A horse trotting. Photogravure after Eadweard Muybridge.

The Murderer Who Made Movies Possible

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The BGL Chemical Set

Science at Play
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Oil painting of an alchemist reading

Age of Alchemy
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Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot

Things Fall Apart
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Second Skin exhibit

Second Skin: The Science of Stretch
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C.C. Dennis using mortar and pestle at Dearborn laboratory

Mechanochemistry: The Science of Crush
Museum
Illustration of tapping serum from a horse in a pharmacy

Animals and the Making of Human Vaccines
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Ad for colored stockings 1955

Nylon: From Labs to Legs
Museum
Between Us and Catastrophe exhibition

‘Philadelphia Weekly’ Spotlights Institute’s Oral History Program, ‘Between Us and Catastrophe’ Exhibition
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Color abstract landscape painting

Claude Monet and Bee Purple

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Creative Commons contest graphic

Institute’s Digital Collections on List of ‘Hidden Gems’ in Creative Commons Open Culture Remix Art Contest
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Impressionist painting of a lily pond

Could Claude Monet See Like a Bee?

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Archival photo of cleveland fire of 1929

Burn After Watching

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Water Pics exhibition

Science History Institute Mounts New Outdoor Exhibition
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Ad for colored stockings 1955

Digital Exhibitions
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A nurse in a mask

UWISHUNU: The Top Things to Do in Philly This Week & Weekend, November 2–8
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Bike delivery person in a mask

PhillyVoice: Photos of Essential Workers to Be Displayed by the Science History Institute
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Mask makers shown with a sewing machine and their dog

Science History Institute Debuts New Outdoor Exhibition
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A nurse in a mask

Between Us and Catastrophe
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Cartoon of mechanic getting electricuted

Comics: Old-School Distance-Learning Tools

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Engraving showing tableau of injected vessel and infant skeletons by Frederick Ruysch,

Collecting Monstrosity

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Seated man holding brush, peering into microscope

Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives

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Saving Old Movies

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An early 20th century porcelain painting kit

Distilled #5: Porcelain Painting

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Object Explorer
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stereoscope with stereograph

Distilled #4: Virtual Reality in the 19th Century

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Oil painting of an alchemical scene

The Masters of Nature

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The Alchemist and His Wife, ca. 1928, by Jacques Hammerer, after 17th-century original by David Ryckaert III.

Age of Alchemy
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Old Friends

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Portrait of chemist Dorothy Hodgkin

Sketch of a Scientist

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Vintage poster of people watching TV

Sci-Fi Radio Drama

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Fit as a Fiddle: The Remarkable Lives of Cremonese Violins

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The Art of Memory

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Stradivari and the Search for Brilliance

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Portrait of refugee doctor

Refugee Doctors

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Still image from Rethinking Ink animation

Rethinking Ink

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A History of Violence

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Before and after of laser tattoo removal

Rethinking Ink

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Scent of Mystery ad

The Third Sense

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The Alchemist in His Study with a Woman Making Lace

The Art Detective

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Filippo Marinetti, 1934

Food Fight

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Just what is it . . . (1956)

Richard Hamilton’s Plastic Problem

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Walter Potter's Monkey Riding a Goat

Death and Taxidermy

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Tianna Uchacz

Tianna Uchacz

People

Nicole Elizabeth Cook

People
Vaughn Bell poses with her work Village Green.

Village Green
Research
Wind Map, created by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Wind Map
Research
Calendar of Rain at the Sensing Change opening, 2013.

Calendar of Rain
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Diane Burko. Courtesy of the artist.

Waters: Glaciers and Bucks
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Roderick Coover at the Sensing Change exhibit opening, 2013

Estuary/Toxi*City
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Coloring Chemistry

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HighWaterLine, New York City. Courtesy of Eve Mosher.

HighWaterLine
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Particle Falls at the Wilma Theater, 2013.

Particle Falls
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Vaughn Bell poses with her work Village Green.

Home
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Waters: Glaciers and Bucks by Diane Burko.

Art
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Behind the Beaker
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Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann
Historical Profile

Plan Your Visit to the Museum
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Painting Like It’s 1699

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Artwork from the graphic novel Trinity

Graphic History

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Permanent Exhibition
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The Whole of Nature and the Mirror of Art
Museum

Transmutations: Alchemy in Art
Museum
Making Modernity exhibit at the Science History Institute

On View
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Collections
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Fine Art
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Comic Drama

Comic Drama: Illustrating the Manhattan Project

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The Alchemist in His Laboratory

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Louis Pasteur pursuing a rabies vaccine in this etching by Léopold Flameng.

The Artist in the Laboratory

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Art Detectives

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Painting: An Alchemist’s Laboratory

Gold, Secrecy, and Prestige

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Cloth of the World

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Particle Falls

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A 19th-century advertisement for dynamite by the Giant Powder Company.

Meeting the Miner’s Friend

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The Secrets of Alchemy

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Mujeres Celebres (“Famous Women”) comic

Stories of the Great Chemists

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Satirical illustration from Erwin Weinbrenner’s illustrated poem KZL und Morgenthau.

Factory to Farm

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Pandora, That Is, the Noblest Gift of God

Pandora’s Secrets

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Cropped image of La Bella Principessa

The Da Vinci Question

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Back cover image of Louis Pasteur, Benefactor de la Humanidad.

Graphic Knowledge

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Lavoisier and Wife

Revolutionary Instruments: Lavoisier’s Tools as Objets d’Art

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