Historical engraving of a lemming
Early form of magic lantern, 17th century
Illustration of a camera obscura
Microscopic flea anatomy, 17th century
Great Auk (Pinguinus impennis), engraving
Museum Wormianum, historical engraving
John Dryden, English poet and playwright
The Anatomy of an Horse (1683)
Avicenna, Persian philosopher
Emblems from Mylius' Philosophia reformat
Emblems from Philosophia reformata
Matricaria plant, 17th century
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)
Map of the world, 17th century
Frontispiece of Hypotyposis cometae
Title page of Kircher's Ars magna, 1646
Kircher's disc viewer, 17th century
Magic lantern display, 17th century
Distillation glassware historical artwork
Everardus Vorstius, Dutch physician
William Harvey, English physician
Charles de l'Ecluse, Flemish botanist
Woodcut illustration of bird-of-paradise
Mylius' Philosophia reformata
Title page of Leeuwenhoek's Arcana naturae detecta
Dodo model
Dodo, 1626 artwork
Hans Sloane's nautilus shell
Democritus, Greek philosopher
Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Spanish alchemist
Rosicrucian mystical symbol
Ramon Llull, Majorcan philosopher
Fludd's energy and substance
Kircher's book on optics, 1671 edition
Tycho Brahe' s De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis
Illustrations of Indian diamonds
Map of Marquisate and Third District of Brabant
Sizes of celestial bodies, 1708
Map of Alsace, 17th century
Map of Ancient Germany, 17th century
Portuguese navigational map of the North Pacific, 1630
Portuguese navigational map of the South Pacific, 1630
Captive giraffe, 17th century
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Thomas Sydenham, English physician
Giambattista della Porta Italian polymath
Flowers and insects, 17th century artwork
Title page of Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Dutch humanist
William Shakespeare, English playwright
Title page of first edition of Acta eruditorum, 1682
Title page of Isaac Newton's 'Principia'
Contents page of Philosophical Transactions, 1666
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1st volume
Title page of Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, 1632
17th Century alchemist, artwork
17th Century philosopher, artwork
Alchemist at work, 19th century
Figures from Philosophical Transactions, 1667
Potosi, Bolivia, 17th Century artwork
Phases of the Moon, 1708
Epicycles of Moon's orbit, 1708
Alchemical tree, Philosophia reformata
Wallis's Operum Mathematicorum, 1657
Operum Mathematicorum, 1656
Fludd's account of creation
Mary the Jewess, first true alchemist
Roger Bacon, English philosopher
Stralsund during the Thirty Years' War
17th century timber framed house, Confolens, France
Fludd's wind diagram
Morienus the Greek and Khalid ibn Yazid
Hermes Trismegistus, classical god
Tree wood anatomy by van Leeuwenhoek, 1680
William I, Prince of Orange
1705 African Manticore of Ctesias
Harriot's 1631 book on algebra
1620 Henry Saville founder Savilian Chair
1683 Copernicus Universe early print
17th Century chemist, artwork
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Microcosm and macrocosm, 17th century
Newton's catadioptric telescope, 1672
Nicolas Lemery, French pharmacist
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
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
Page from Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
1607 Manticore or Mantichore monster
Map of Breda, 17th century
Kircher's Tower of Babel, 17th century
Air pressure experiment, 1648
Papin's steam engine demonstration, 1688
Historical illustration of distillation
Thomas Dexter Grist Mill, USA
17th Century doctor, artwork
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Divinity School, University of Oxford
Persecution of Catholics, 17th century
1620 Ludovic Stewart Duke Richmond Maine
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
John Milton, English poet
John Locke, English philosopher
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Guy Fawkes' lantern, 17th century
Queen Elizabeth I, English monarch
Water clock, design from 1646
Papin's pressure cooker, 17th century
Mother checking a child's hair for lice, illustraiton
Fludd's system of health
1693 Flying fish Johan Nieuhof
African artefact, 17th century
Melchior Cibinensis, Hungarian alchemist
Native American chief, 16th century
Native American dance, 16th century
De Caus on engineering, 1620s
The quack, 17th century oil painting
Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist
Kircher's book on geology, 1678 edition
Tobacco plant, 17th century artwork
Konrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist
Joachim Camerarius, German scholar
Jesuit missions to China, 17th century
John Flamsteed
Fludd's cosmology, 1617
Nilometer in Egypt, 17th-century artwork
17th-century rock inscription, New Mexico
Concentrating sunlight, 17th century
Kenelm Digby, British alchemist
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, 1679 artwork
Alchemist at work, 18th century
Kintai Bridge, Japan, 1910s
1560 Gesner foetal sea monster
1560 Gesner many eyed sea monster
Arabian horned creature, 16th century
Mythical hybrid creature, 16th century
Rhinoceros and elephant, 16th century
Mythical water creature, 16th century
Mythical creature, 16th century
Map of Taiwan, 17th century
Map of Guangdong and Hainan in China, 17th century
Hanging of witches, 17th century
Spermatozoa of a dog by van Leeuwenhoek, 1685
Spermatozoa of a rabbit by van Leeuwenhoek, 1685
Van Leeuwenhoek's 'Dissections and Discoveries', 1696
Map of the Arctic, 16th century
Henry VIII, King of England
Mary I, Queen of England and Ireland
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
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
Sciathericon for determining time