Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher
Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher
Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist
Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer
Theodorus Gaza, Greek humanist
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Alfonso the Magnanimous, King of Aragon
Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist and author
Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
Saint Albertus Magnus, German philosopher
Guillaume Philandrier, French humanist
Cornelius Valerius, Dutch humanist
Johannes Stabius, Austrian cartographer
John Colet, English humanist
Janos Zsamboky, Hungarian humanist
Johann Faust, German printer
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch theologian
Christophe Plantin, French printer
Leon Battista Alberti, Italian polymath
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian humanist
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar
Jan Hus, Czech religious reformer
Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar
John Colet, English humanist theologian
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Albertus Magnus, Italian Dominican friar
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
Anaxagoras, Ancient Greek philosopher
Creation of Adam from clay, 15th century
Title page of Politiae literariae, 1540
Anaximenes, Ancient Greek philosopher
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1518)
Aristarchos of Samos, astronomer
Frederick I Barbarossa Holy Roman Emperor
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Atonius de Monte Ulmi, Italian physician
Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Italian lawyer
John Calvin, French theologian
Mary, Duchess of Burgundy
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Dutch humanist
Leonardo Fibonacci, Italian mathematician
Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1516)
Camillo Benso, Italian statesman
Thomas Aquinas, Italian priest
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Charlemagne, first Holy Roman Emperor
Letter written by Vasco da Gama, 1500s
David Hume, Scottish philosopher
Michele Sanmicheli, Italian architect
Anaximander, Ancient Greek philosopher
Everardus Vorstius, Dutch physician
Robert Estienne, French printer
1544 Aristotle Greek Philosopher Portrait
Diary of Vasco da Gama's 1497 voyage
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer
Sebastian Cabot, Italian explorer
Painting depicting Henry VII of England granting John Cabot a patent
Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher
Jacob Brill, Dutch philosopher
1493 Nuremberg Chronicle Simon the magus
Dyeing cloth, 15th-century manuscript
King Henry II of England
Christopher Columbus, Genoese explorer
European in the Americas, 16th century
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
Emperor Maximillian, by Durer
Pythagoras, Ancient Greek philosopher
Aristotle, Ancient Greek philosopher
Boccaccio
Town defences, 15th-century manuscript
Pierre Belon, French naturalist
Romulus Augustus, last Roman Emperor
Leonardo da Vinci's helicopter design, 15th century
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist
Pascal adding machine
Death playing a drum, 19th C illustration
Count Alessandro di Cagliostro (1743-1795), Book Illustration from “Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Ludovico Settala, Italian physician
Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian printer
Francesco Bianchini, Italian astronomer
Henry Thomas de la Beche, geologist
St Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
John Selden, English humanist polymath
Anton von Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscopist
Anne Hagopian, US art historian
Johannes Trithemius, German polymath
Devils and Hell's flames, 14th century
Raffaellino del Garbo, Italian painter
Art restoration
Italian breads
Desiderius Erasmus
Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
John Locke, English philosopher
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher
John Wycliffe, English theologian
Melampulach, Arab physician
Rhubarb cultivation, 16th century
Birthplace of Copernicus, Poland
Nicolaus Copernicus
Flooding of the fibre caused by heavy rains.
“A Masonic Anecdote”, Alessandro di Cagliostro, after James Gillray Caricature, Book Illustration from “Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910
1566 Guillame Rondelet Portrait naturalis
Karl Ludwig Hencke, German astronomer
Pythagorean harmonics, 1492 artwork
Knave of Nooses from Cloisters playing cards, 15th century
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer
John Dee, English alchemist
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
Hypatia, mathematician and philosopher
Geoffrey Chaucer, English author and poet
Lorenza Seraphina Feliciani, Countess, Wife of Alessandro di Cagliostro, Book Illustration from “Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910
Bust of Alessandro di Cagliostro, by Jean-Antoine Houdon, courtesy Messers. Hachette et Cie, Book Illustration from “Cagliostro, The Splendour and Misery of A Master of Magic”, Chapman and Hall LTD, W.R.H. Trowbridge, 1910
Warren de la Rue Moon
Archimedes, Ancient Greek mathematician
Pyrotechnist firing a rocket
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
Siege of Jerusalem by Saladin, 1187
Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician
Christ's descent into Limbo, 14th century
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
Andreas Vesalius, Dutch anatomist
St Inglevert jousting tournament, 1390
Pietro Giannone, Italian historian
Neptune fountain in Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy
Alba Bible introduction, 15th century
Adam and Eve, 1430 artwork
Circumcising the Israelites, 1430 artwork
King Solomon's throne, 1430 artwork
Solomon's Temple, 1430 artwork
Battle of Gog and Magog, 1430 artwork
Feast from Book of Esther, 1430 artwork
Scene from Book of Esther, 1430 artwork
Feast of Purim, 1430 artwork
Jedediah Buxton, English mathematician
Martin Luther, German theologian
Daniel in the lions' den, 1430 artwork
Edward Knobel, British astronomer
Friedrich Woehler, German chemist
Germany, Bavaria, Nuremberg, Statue of Albrecht Durer
Garfield railroad construction, 1881
Exterior and sectional view of a glass works and furnace.
Saint John Fisher
Venice carnival mask
Heraclitus of Ephesus.
Ebenezer Evans, American physician
Leclerc de Buffon, French naturalist
Andre-Marie Ampere, French mathematician
Peter Apian, German mathematician
Glass blowing.
Nail makers workshop.
Blood transfusion clinic nurse
Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Poland
John Russell.
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Illustration of a camera obscura
Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist
1753 Leonhard Euler Swiss Mathematician
Edward Kelley, English astrologer
John Harris, English mathematician
An astronomer (Ptolemy of Alexandria?)
Italian bread