Hand-printed science history trading cards...whence did they come?
In 2010, Kelly McElroy, Owen Curtsinger, Lindsey Stone and I celebrated our common love for science and self-publishing by releasing Hypothesis Now! which compiled our latest zines into one convenient package with a nice screen-printed cover and most pertinently, Kelly McElroy's Team Science trading cards. Of these, there were six: Carl Sagan, David Suzuki, Ruth Patrick, Jane Goodall, Jacques Cousteau & Bill Nye.
As we made plans to release another Hypotheses Now!, I set out to make a set of screen-printed trading cards that would come in booster packs, have different rarities, and generally would let me indulge in all my collectible card game fetishes. The design challenges were too exciting to pass up and even though it took us four years to release a new Hypothesis Now!, I was able to keep the dream alive and finally started printing the first set: Scientists vol.I in December 2012.
In 2010, Kelly McElroy, Owen Curtsinger, Lindsey Stone and I celebrated our common love for science and self-publishing by releasing Hypothesis Now! which compiled our latest zines into one convenient package with a nice screen-printed cover and most pertinently, Kelly McElroy's Team Science trading cards. Of these, there were six: Carl Sagan, David Suzuki, Ruth Patrick, Jane Goodall, Jacques Cousteau & Bill Nye.
As we made plans to release another Hypotheses Now!, I set out to make a set of screen-printed trading cards that would come in booster packs, have different rarities, and generally would let me indulge in all my collectible card game fetishes. The design challenges were too exciting to pass up and even though it took us four years to release a new Hypothesis Now!, I was able to keep the dream alive and finally started printing the first set: Scientists vol.I in December 2012.
Step 1: Put together a "balanced" list of historical figures.
Step 2: Research, corroborate & synthesize historical information on said historical figures in 150 words or less.
Step 3: Illustrate
Step 4: Layout
Step 5: Print
Step 6: Cut
Step 7: Assemble
Step 2: Research, corroborate & synthesize historical information on said historical figures in 150 words or less.
Step 3: Illustrate
Step 4: Layout
Step 5: Print
Step 6: Cut
Step 7: Assemble
LUMINARIES Vol. I (released Feb 2013, Sept 2014)
(LEGENDARY)
Agnodike of Athens healer, rebel, legend
(RARE)
Archimedes of Syracuse: polymath, artificer, sage
Hypatia of Alexandria: polymath, rebel, martyr
Ibn Al-Haytham: polymath, sage
Nikola Tesla: mad scientist
Marie Curie: artificer, sage
(UNCOMMON)
Joseph Lister: healer, baron
James Clerk Maxwell: sage
Srinivasa Ramanujan: ecstatic, autodidact
Emmy Noether: sage
(COMMON)
Einstein the Elder: pop icon
Satyendra Nath Bose: polymath, autodidact
Ada Lovelace: coder, countess
Rachel Carson: rebel, bard
Daniel Hale Williams: healer, rebel
Stephen Hawking bard, commander
RELICS vol. 1 (released Nov 2013)
(RARE)
Ruins of Nabta Playa c. 50th century BC
Antikythera Mechanism - 1st century BC
Zenith Tube at Xochicalco - c. 5th century AD
Su’s Cosmic Engine - 1092 AD
Babbage’s difference engine no.1
Hubble Space Telescope 1990 AD
(UNCOMMON)
Galileo's spyglass - c.1610 AD
Bunsen’s burner - 1855 AD
Pasteur's flask - 1861 AD
Lawrence's cyclotron - 1931 AD
Holmdel Horn Antenna - 1959 AD
Voyager 1 - 1977 AD
(COMMON)
Basin of Archimedes - 3rd century. BC
Newton's prisms - c.1670 AD
Ørsted's compass - 1820 AD
Fleming's petri dish - 1928 AD
Luminaries vol. II (released July 2014)
(RARE)
Aglaonike of Thessaly c. 2nd cent. BC sorceress
Brahmagupta c.598 - c.668 bard, sage
Su Song c. 1020 - 1101 ambassador, artificer, polymath
Darwin the Elder - 1882 hermit, sage
Alan Turing 1912 - 1954 officer, coder, sage
(UNCOMMON)
Johannes Kepler 1571 - 1630 ecstatic, sage
Henrietta Swan Leavitt 1868 - 1921 computer, sage
Barbara McClintock 1902-1992 avant-garde, sage
Wú Jiànxióng 1912 - 1997 artificer
(COMMON)
A. van Leeuwenhoek 1632 - 1723 artificer, merchant
Maria Sibylla Merian 1647 - 1717 illusionist, adventurer
Anders Jonas Ångström 1814 - 1874 cleric
Maria Mitchell 1818 - 1889 autodidact, guide
É. Léopold Trouvelot 1827-1895 illusionist, dilettante
Sofia Kovalevskaya 1850 - 1891 rebel, autodidact
Katsuko Saruhashi 1920 - 2007 hydromancer, guide
