Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian printer
Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar
Title page of Politiae literariae, 1540
Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
Guillaume Philandrier, French humanist
Cornelius Valerius, Dutch humanist
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Italian lawyer
Christophe Plantin, French printer
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
Melampulach, Arab physician
Ismail I, Shah of Persia
Abyssinian priest, historical artwork
Rhubarb cultivation, 16th century
African herbal tree, 16th century
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1516)
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1518)
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Raffaellino del Garbo, Italian painter
Johannes Stabius, Austrian cartographer
Janos Zsamboky, Hungarian humanist
Albrecht Durer's Nemesis.
Albrecht Durer's Sea Monster engraving
Durer's 'Whore of Babylon' engraving.
Martyrdom of John Hooper, 1555
Caribbean millet brew, 16th century
European in the Americas, 16th century
South American cannibals, 16th century
The Dance of Death, 16th century
Pineapple, 16th century
Cassava plant, 16th century
South American tree, 16th century
Horse's skull, 16th century
Horse's hoof, 16th century
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer
1532 A medieval dive helmet aqualung
1532 A medieval diving suit Vegetalius
Dioscorides, Ancient Greek physician
Father of Albrecht Durer.
1532 A war machine in the form of a horse
Historical illustration of distillation
Mythical hybrid creature, 16th century
Mythical water creature, 16th century
Durer's, St Jerome in his study.
African artefact, 17th century
John Colet, English humanist
Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan
Egyptian obelisks, 16th century
King Henry VIII of England
Leonardo da Vinci
Bernard Abattia, French astrologer
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
Martin Luther, German theologian
Native American chief, 16th century
Surveying methods, 16th century
Arabian horned creature, 16th century
Captive giraffe, 16th century
Rhinoceros and elephant, 16th century
Michelangelo's David.
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
1566 Guillame Rondelet Portrait naturalis
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
William I, Prince of Orange
Joachim Camerarius, German scholar
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Illustration of a camera obscura
Restoration of Michelangelo's David
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
Toucan, 16th century
Mythical creature, 16th century
Nostradamus statue, France
Native American dead chiefs, 16th century
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
Gerardus Mercator, Dutch cartographer
Ethiopian animal, 16th century
Captive sloth, 16th century
Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist
Queen Elizabeth I, English monarch
Medieval comic poem, 16th century
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist and author
Native American dance, 16th century
Sebastian Cabot, Italian explorer
St George slaying the dragon
Distillation glassware historical artwork
John Knox, Scottish theologian
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
A stained glass artist in his studio.
Francis Drake, English explorer
Chalchiuhtlicue, Aztec goddess
The seven works of mercy, 16th century painting
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Jacopo Barozzi Da Vignola, Italian architect
Pietro Giannone, Italian historian
1532 Portrait Military author Vegetalius
Muslim circumcision rite, 16th century
Tobacco cultivation, 16th century
Elephant trapping, 16th century
Bear hunting, 16th century
South American healing, 16th century
Hunting bison, 16th century
1650's Portrait Pierre Belon Naturalist
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
Sebastian Munster, German cartographer
Kent artillery fort, 16th century
William Shakespeare, English playwright
1565 John Knox Scottish Presbyterian
1693 Flying fish Johan Nieuhof
Glass blowing.
Exterior and sectional view of a glass works and furnace.
Cavalrymen with muskets, pistols and swords.
Cavalrymen with pistol.
The River Fisherman.
Nail makers workshop.
Goldweigher, 17th century
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer
Native American chiefs, 16th century
1588 De Bry ancient Pict Celtic Woman
Henry VIII, King of England
Mary I, Queen of England and Ireland
Chapel of Bones, Evora, Portugal
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
1705 African Manticore of Ctesias
Robert Estienne, French printer
1620 Ludovic Stewart Duke Richmond Maine
John Colet, English humanist theologian
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
Andreas Vesalius, Dutch anatomist
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits
Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer
Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist
Petrus Bertius, Flemish cartographer
Cosimo de' Medici.
Sebastain Munster, German cartographer
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
Sir William Temple, English statesman
Northern hemisphere map, 16th Century
Tycho Brahe' s De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis
Bronze statue of Mercury
Native American village, 16th century
Christian Wolff, German philosopher
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
Statue of Bacchus
Niccolo Tribolo, Italian sculptor and architect
Anatomical study by Peter Paul Rubens.
Drawing of dog's head and hind-leg
Death playing a drum, 19th C illustration
Gerard de Lairesse, Dutch painter
The Witches' Sabbath by Hans Baldung.
French Academies of Science and Fine Art, 17th century
Tomb of Vasco da Gama, Lisbon
Painting titled 'Femme aux poires' by Pablo Picasso
ALBRECHT D RER (1471-1528).
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist
Letter written by Vasco da Gama, 1500s
Johannes Kepler's birthplace
Native American ceremony, 16th century
Tycho Brahe's Astronomical Instruments title page
Euphrasia officinalis plant, illustration
Brahe observing the supernova of 1572
Painting of The Italian Sculptor Antonio Canova in His Studio by Hugh Douglas Hamilton dated 1790
The tailor.
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist