Euler's Eyes
2026-10-29
History of Mathematics
Page 237 of 270
Image credits
Historical images and photographs
All come from Wikimedia Commons. We use the thumbnails provided by Commons, reduced to 800 pixels wide, with no other editing.
- Portrait of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, line engraving by Ernesta Legnani Bisi after a drawing by Maria Longhi (1812): source page · public domain.
- Agnesi at her study table, drawing by Jean François Bozio, Metropolitan Museum of Art: source page · CC0.
- Title page of the first volume of the Instituzioni analitiche (Milan, 1748): source page · public domain.
- Plate with the construction of the versiera, from the first volume of the Instituzioni analitiche (1748): source page · public domain.
- Diploma of appointment to the University of Bologna (1750): source page · public domain.
- Portrait in Antonio Francesco Frisi’s Historical Eulogy (1799): source page · public domain.
- The Pio Albergo Trivulzio, Milan, photo by Joaquin008: source page · CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Bust of Agnesi at the Palazzo di Brera, Milan, photo by Giovanni Dall’Orto: source page · free use with attribution.
- Plaques at the place where Agnesi died, Milan, photo by Bramfab: source page · CC BY-SA 4.0.
Figures made for the blog
The cover and the four interactive figures (the construction of the versiera, the tangent line and the points of inflection, the area under the curve, and the averages of Cauchy draws) are original illustrations, with text in each of the site’s languages.
Record
The file data/agnesi_imagens.json records the source, licence, verification date and SHA-256 hash of each downloaded image. The historical sources for each topic appear at the end of each post.
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