John Dryden, English poet and playwright
William Shakespeare, English playwright
John Milton, English poet
Early form of magic lantern, 17th century
John Locke, English philosopher
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Dutch humanist
Queen Elizabeth I, English monarch
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
Fludd's wind diagram
Fludd's energy and substance
Historical engraving of a lemming
Roger Bacon, English philosopher
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
1620 Ludovic Stewart Duke Richmond Maine
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Guy Fawkes' lantern, 17th century
Mylius' Philosophia reformata
Fludd's account of creation
Water clock, design from 1646
Papin's pressure cooker, 17th century
Ramon Llull, Majorcan philosopher
Richard Bentley, English scholar
Thomas Sydenham, English physician
William Harvey, English physician
William I, Prince of Orange
Joachim Camerarius, German scholar
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
Sir William Temple, English statesman
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
Francis Drake, English explorer
John Colet, English humanist theologian
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Illustration of a camera obscura
Mary the Jewess, first true alchemist
Democritus, Greek philosopher
Avicenna, Persian philosopher
Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Spanish alchemist
Emblems from Mylius' Philosophia reformat
Emblems from Philosophia reformata
Rosicrucian mystical symbol
Stralsund during the Thirty Years' War
17th century timber framed house, Confolens, France
Daniel Heinsius, Dutch poet and scholar
Augustus, Roman emperor
Tiberius, Roman emperor
Caligula, Roman emperor
Galba, Roman emperor
Otho, Roman emperor
Vitellius, Roman emperor
Titus, Roman emperor
Domitian, Roman emperor
Vespasian, Roman emperor
Alchemical tree, Philosophia reformata
Frontispiece of Hypotyposis cometae
Fludd's system of health
Matricaria plant, 17th century
Title page of Kircher's Ars magna, 1646
Sciathericon for determining time
Kircher's book on optics, 1671 edition
Tycho Brahe' s De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis
Vermeer's 'The Milkmaid'
Wallis's Operum Mathematicorum, 1657
Operum Mathematicorum, 1656
Mother checking a child's hair for lice, illustraiton
Mary I, Queen of England and Ireland
Morienus the Greek and Khalid ibn Yazid
Thomas Cromwell, English statesman
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
John Flamsteed
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)
1665 Johan Nieuhoff Explorer Portrait
Ulrik Huber, Dutch jurist
Everardus Vorstius, Dutch physician
Giambattista della Porta Italian polymath
Distillation glassware historical artwork
Joseph Scaliger, French religious scholar
Charles de l'Ecluse, Flemish botanist
Title page of Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Harriot's 1631 book on algebra
Woodcut illustration of bird-of-paradise
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis), engraving
The Anatomy of an Horse (1683)
Microcosm and macrocosm, 17th century
Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician
Solon of Athens, Greek statesman and lawmaker
Flowers and insects, 17th century artwork
Joseph Addison, English essayist
John Colet, English humanist
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
Henry VIII, King of England
John Harvard, English-US clergyman
1693 Flying fish Johan Nieuhof
African artefact, 17th century
Hermes Trismegistus, classical god
Melchior Cibinensis, Hungarian alchemist
Native American chief, 16th century
Native American dance, 16th century
Kircher's disc viewer, 17th century
Magic lantern display, 17th century
De Caus on engineering, 1620s
The quack, 17th century oil painting
1705 African Manticore of Ctesias
Microscopic flea anatomy, 17th century
Map of the world, 17th century
17th-century rock inscription, New Mexico
Museum Wormianum, historical engraving
Concentrating sunlight, 17th century
1607 Manticore or Mantichore monster
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Nicholas Culpeper, English physician
Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist
1620 Henry Saville founder Savilian Chair
1683 Copernicus Universe early print
Coin of Jahangir, 17th century
Goldweigher, 17th century
Cicero's collected works, 17th century
17th Century chemist, artwork
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Divinity School, University of Oxford
Michael Maier, German physician
Native American dead chiefs, 16th century
Native American ceremony, 16th century
Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, 1666
Jesuit missions to China, 17th century
Kircher's book on geology, 1678 edition
Kircher's Tower of Babel, 17th century
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, 1679 artwork
Newton's catadioptric telescope, 1672
Garden tools, 17th century
Nicolas Lemery, French pharmacist
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Gerard Blasius, Dutch anatomist
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Salomon de Caus, French engineer
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
Otto von Guericke, German engineer
Denis Papin, French physicist
Magdeburg vacuum experiment, 1650s
Vermeer's Woman with Balance
Page from Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Tree wood anatomy by van Leeuwenhoek, 1680
Vermeer's 'The Little Street'
Philip IV of Spain, circa 1628
Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1st volume
Title page of first edition of Acta eruditorum, 1682
Title page of Isaac Newton's 'Principia'
The sick woman, 17th century painting
Contents page of Philosophical Transactions, 1666
Title page of Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, 1632
Title page of Leeuwenhoek's Arcana naturae detecta
Planispheric astrolobe
Map of Marquisate and Third District of Brabant
Fludd's cosmology, 1617
Antonio Gobio, Italian lawyer
Captive giraffe, 17th century
Suetonius writing The Twelve Caesars
Dodo model
Native American village, 16th century
1655 John Wilmott Earl of Rochester
Tobacco plant, 17th century artwork
Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, 1805
Newton's birthplace and 1682 letter
John Dryden.