%0 Journal Article
%T How Józef Herman Osiński Was Given the Face of Lord Kelvin. A Circumstantial Trial
%A Sawicki, Jerzy
%A Wróblewski, Andrzej Kajetan
%J Quarterly Journal of the History of Science and Technology
%V 2019
%R 10.4467/0023589XKHNT.19.013.10343
%N Volume 64, Issue 2
%P 45-60
%K Józef Herman Osiński, history of physics and science of electricity in Poland
%@ 0023-589X
%D 2019
%U https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/kwartalnik-historii-nauki-i-techniki/article/jak-jozef-herman-osinski-zostal-obdarzony-obliczem-lorda-kelvina-proces-poszlakowy
%X Fifty years ago, a portrait of Józef Herman Osiński, an eminent Polish physicist and electrician of the 18th century, was suddenly ‘discovered’ and published in a book on famous electricians. We present solid evidence that the purported portrait was in fact that of Lord Kelvin, which by an editorial mistake was labeled with the name of Osiński.