This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by the Science History Institute of any product, service or activity, or to concur with a
This image may not be used to state or imply the endorsement by the Science History Institute of any product, service or activity, or to concur with an opinion or confirm the accuracy of any text appearing alongside or in logical association with the image. Scientist, 19th-century satirical artwork. It is titled in French 'Les bigarrures de l'esprit humain', which is a reference to the colours and patterns of the human spirit. It shows a scientist in a laboratory pouring gunpowder over a candle and into water. The French inscription across bottom translates as 'My fortune is made! I have found a gunpowder both waterproof and non-combustible'. Also depicted are books, alchemical equipment and glassware, bellows and kilns, and a foetus at lower left. This hand-coloured lithograph on wove paper is based on an artwork originally by French artist Jules Joseph Guillaume Bourdet (1799-1869).
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