Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
Christophe Plantin, French printer
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
Guillaume Philandrier, French humanist
Cornelius Valerius, Dutch humanist
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Johannes Stabius, Austrian cartographer
Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Janos Zsamboky, Hungarian humanist
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
Title page of Politiae literariae, 1540
Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
John Colet, English humanist
Theodorus Gaza, Greek humanist
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1518)
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar
Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian printer
Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Italian lawyer
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1516)
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch theologian
Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer
John Colet, English humanist theologian
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Dutch humanist
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer
Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist and author
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist
Robert Estienne, French printer
Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Rhubarb cultivation, 16th century
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer
Alfonso the Magnanimous, King of Aragon
Melampulach, Arab physician
Ismail I, Shah of Persia
Abyssinian priest, historical artwork
1532 A war machine in the form of a horse
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Historical illustration of distillation
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
Cassava plant, 16th century
Martyrdom of John Hooper, 1555
European in the Americas, 16th century
The Dance of Death, 16th century
African herbal tree, 16th century
Johann Faust, German printer
Dioscorides, Ancient Greek physician
Boccaccio
Johannes Trithemius, German polymath
Everardus Vorstius, Dutch physician
Bernard Abattia, French astrologer
Sebastian Cabot, Italian explorer
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Illustration of a camera obscura
Caribbean millet brew, 16th century
South American cannibals, 16th century
Martin Luther, German theologian
Pineapple, 16th century
South American tree, 16th century
Horse's skull, 16th century
Horse's hoof, 16th century
John Calvin, French theologian
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
1532 A medieval dive helmet aqualung
1532 A medieval diving suit Vegetalius
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
African artefact, 17th century
William I, Prince of Orange
Joachim Camerarius, German scholar
1566 Guillame Rondelet Portrait naturalis
Father of Albrecht Durer.
Raffaellino del Garbo, Italian painter
Andreas Vesalius, Dutch anatomist
Death playing a drum, 19th C illustration
Frederick I Barbarossa Holy Roman Emperor
Mythical hybrid creature, 16th century
Mythical water creature, 16th century
Restoration of Michelangelo's David
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Surveying methods, 16th century
Egyptian obelisks, 16th century
Captive giraffe, 16th century
Saint Albertus Magnus, German philosopher
Distillation glassware historical artwork
King Henry VIII of England
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
Albrecht Durer's Nemesis.
Albrecht Durer's Sea Monster engraving
Durer's 'Whore of Babylon' engraving.
Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman
Leon Battista Alberti, Italian polymath
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
Francis Drake, English explorer
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar
John Knox, Scottish theologian
Arabian horned creature, 16th century
Rhinoceros and elephant, 16th century
1532 Portrait Military author Vegetalius
Tobacco cultivation, 16th century
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Gerardus Mercator, Dutch cartographer
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
Queen Elizabeth I, English monarch
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
Durer's, St Jerome in his study.
Medieval comic poem, 16th century
Christian Wolff, German philosopher
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
Leonhard Thurneisser, German physician
Oronce Fine, French cartographer
Henry VIII, King of England
Mary I, Queen of England and Ireland
Malleus Maleficarum, 1520 edition
Toucan, 16th century
Mythical creature, 16th century
Letter written by Vasco da Gama, 1500s
Giovanni Boccaccio, Italian humanist
Pietro Giannone, Italian historian
Ethiopian animal, 16th century
Captive sloth, 16th century
Agostino Ramelli, Italian engineer
South American healing, 16th century
Charlemagne, first Holy Roman Emperor
1620 Ludovic Stewart Duke Richmond Maine
1650's Portrait Pierre Belon Naturalist
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits
Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer
Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist
Petrus Bertius, Flemish cartographer
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Native American chief, 16th century
Michael Maier, German physician
Joseph Addison, English essayist
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
John Milton, English poet
Bear hunting, 16th century
Hunting bison, 16th century
Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect
Jacopo Barozzi Da Vignola, Italian architect
Ramon Llull, Majorcan philosopher
Leonardo da Vinci
John Dryden, English poet and playwright
Camillo Benso, Italian statesman
Creation of Adam from clay, 15th century
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
1693 Flying fish Johan Nieuhof
The seven works of mercy, 16th century painting
Birthplace of Copernicus, Poland
Nicolaus Copernicus
Nostradamus statue, France
Native American dead chiefs, 16th century
Muslim circumcision rite, 16th century
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
Elephant trapping, 16th century
Richard Bentley, English scholar
Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman
Ulrik Huber, Dutch jurist
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
Sir William Temple, English statesman
Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl Shaftsbury
Emperor Maximillian, by Durer
William Shakespeare, English playwright
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
Sebastian Munster, German cartographer
Kent artillery fort, 16th century
Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Spanish alchemist