I would like to make several large portraits prints (1mx1m) for the lab of Newton, Fourier, Michelson, Rayleigh and some other famous scientists. Can you advise any web source or a hard copy book, with such images of high quality? May be you came across printed portraits already available online?
Prof. Kalenkov,
I'm afraid you'll have to find the high resolution portraits yourself. But once you do, you are welcome to contact my Center, the W.E. Upjohn Center for the Study of Geographical Change, to image the portraits in very high resolution so they can be printed. Best, David
Hi, Georgy
This is an oil-panting depicting the solver of the problem related to the number of equally sized balls which can come in contact with a central ball. I hope you can recognize the person. The painting appeared in the book "Mysterious physics" as part of the introduction to Fermat's Last theorem.
It's JPEG, 584 KB.
In this second picture is Bolyai Janos (1802-1860), the hungarian mathematician considered one of the founders of non-euclidean mathematics (together with Gauss and Lobacevskij).
Appeared in "Adventurous physics" - as part of introduction to the physics of extra dimensions.
JPEG, 1 MB.
I don't know if you're interested in biomedical scientist. In this web, you can find a good resolution picture of Santiago Ramón y Cajal:
http://biblioteca.ucm.es/irc/doc21098.jpg
Hello
The Nobel Institute website has very good pictures of all the nobel laureates. I suppose you can also ask for prints of those pictures from the site.
When talking of pre-photograph scientists a good strategy might be to find the museum or the institution (frequently where the scientists studied, taught, conducted research or lectured frequently) where a good painted portrait is kept. Some of these institutions might consider an agreement to provide a good printing resolution photograph as long as they are quoted as sponsors next to the photograph.
Good luck.
Ana
You could try the image database of British Library: https://imagesonline.bl.uk/ You will probably find pictures in good (printable) quality but they will cost you something.
Dear colleagues!
I have discovered the following resource, which seems to suit my needs at least:
http://www.oldantiqueprints.com/index.php?cPath=24_151
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