Susanna Phelps Gage Susanna Phelps Gage Susanna Phelps Gage (1857–1915) was an American embryologist and comparative anatomist. She initially worked on the anatomy of small animals and humans, later shifting into neurology to study the embryological development of the brain and the anatomy of the human nervous system. She also developed a new and widely adopted method for making anatomical teaching models out of paper rather than wax. Although Susanna Phelps Gage was a respected embryologist and camparative anatomist, her work was often ignored. Like most other women scientists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries who were married to scientists, Gage's
Anna Ruysch Willem van Aelst. Because Anna Ruysch rarely signed her work, there are fewer than ten paintings attributed to her with certainty. In 2007, a still life by Anna Ruysch sold at auction for £50,900. Anna Ruysch Anna Ruysch (baptized December 19, 1666, The Hague–buried January 7, 1741, Amsterdam) was a Dutch Golden Age flower painter. Anna Ruysch (sometimes called Anna Elisabeth Ruysch) was the daughter of Maria Post and Frederik Ruysch, a preeminent botanist and anatomist. She was the younger sister of painter Rachel Ruysch. When Anna was an infant the Ruysch family moved from The Hague to Amsterdam, where