Euler's Eyes
2026-10-14
History of Mathematics
Page 112 of 191
Image credits
Historical images
All come from Wikimedia Commons. We use the thumbnails provided by Commons, unedited.
- Portrait of Jakob Bernoulli, painted in 1687 by his brother Niklaus Bernoulli: source page · public domain.
- Title page of the Ars conjectandi, Basel, 1713: source page · public domain.
- Jakob Bernoulli’s tombstone in the cloister of Basel Minster, photo by Wladyslaw Sojka: source page · Free Art License.
- Cross-section of a nautilus shell, photo by Florian Elias Rieser: source page · CC BY-SA 4.0.
Blog figures
The cover, the drawing of the two spirals and the graph of the proportion of heads in simulated coin tosses are original illustrations, with versions in each of the site’s languages. The table of notations for the integral, in the post on the legacy, was redone from a table in this site’s old calculus course.
Record
The file data/bernoulli_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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