Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
Jedediah Buxton, English mathematician
Harriot's 1631 book on algebra
Janos Zsamboky, Hungarian humanist
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Guillaume Philandrier, French humanist
Cornelius Valerius, Dutch humanist
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist and author
Petrus Bertius, Flemish cartographer
Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian printer
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
Andreas Vesalius, Dutch anatomist
Oronce Fine, French cartographer
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Christophe Plantin, French printer
Melampulach, Arab physician
Dioscorides, Ancient Greek physician
Nicolaus Copernicus
Historical illustration of distillation
Leonhard Thurneisser, German physician
1753 Leonhard Euler Swiss Mathematician
Title page of Politiae literariae, 1540
Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician
Leonardo Fibonacci, Italian mathematician
European in the Americas, 16th century
Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist
Illustration of a camera obscura
Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar
Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Italian lawyer
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet
Bernard Abattia, French astrologer
1532 A war machine in the form of a horse
Johannes Stabius, Austrian cartographer
Pythagoras, Ancient Greek mathematician
Rhubarb cultivation, 16th century
Mythical hybrid creature, 16th century
Caribbean millet brew, 16th century
Pineapple, 16th century
South American tree, 16th century
Cassava plant, 16th century
Mythical water creature, 16th century
African herbal tree, 16th century
Horse's skull, 16th century
Horse's hoof, 16th century
Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician
Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher
Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer
Wallis's Operum Mathematicorum, 1657
Operum Mathematicorum, 1656
Andre-Marie Ampere, French mathematician
Martin Luther, German theologian
Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist
1566 Guillame Rondelet Portrait naturalis
Egyptian obelisks, 16th century
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
John Colet, English humanist theologian
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
Johannes Borgesius, Dutch mathematician
Olinthus Gregory, English mathematician
William I, Prince of Orange
Joachim Camerarius, German scholar
Arabian horned creature, 16th century
Captive giraffe, 16th century
Rhinoceros and elephant, 16th century
Toucan, 16th century
Mythical creature, 16th century
1532 A medieval dive helmet aqualung
1532 A medieval diving suit Vegetalius
Ismail I, Shah of Persia
Abyssinian priest, historical artwork
Martyrdom of John Hooper, 1555
South American cannibals, 16th century
The Dance of Death, 16th century
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1516)
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1518)
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Simeon Poisson, French physicist
Professor Sir Roger Penrose
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Distillation glassware historical artwork
James Mills Peirce, US mathematician
George Gabriel Stokes, British physicist
Oliver Heaviside, British physicist
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
John Colet, English humanist
Jean Lasserre, French mathematician
Durer's, St Jerome in his study.
Title page of Huygens's 'Astroscopia Compendiaria' (1684)
Title page of Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Jupiter from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Saturn from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Father of Albrecht Durer.
King Henry VIII of England
Joseph Lagrange, French mathematician
Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan
Surveying methods, 16th century
African artefact, 17th century
Ethiopian animal, 16th century
Captive sloth, 16th century
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer
John Knox, Scottish theologian
Bernard Carr, British astronomer
Pythagoras, Ancient Greek philosopher
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch theologian
John Locke, English philosopher
1650's Portrait Pierre Belon Naturalist
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits
William Henry Bragg, British physicist
Archimedes, Ancient Greek mathematician
Title page of Isaac Newton's 'Principia'
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
1565 John Knox Scottish Presbyterian
Everardus Vorstius, Dutch physician
Thomas Sydenham, English physician
Francis Drake, English explorer
Henry VIII, King of England
Mary I, Queen of England and Ireland
Peter Apian, German mathematician
Konrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist
1532 Portrait Military author Vegetalius
Raffaellino del Garbo, Italian painter
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
Albrecht Durer's Nemesis.
Albrecht Durer's Sea Monster engraving
Durer's 'Whore of Babylon' engraving.
William Harvey, English physician
Elephant trapping, 16th century
Bear hunting, 16th century
Tobacco cultivation, 16th century
South American healing, 16th century
Hunting bison, 16th century
Josiah Willard Gibbs, US mathematician
Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician
Gerardus Mercator, Dutch cartographer
Hypatia, female mathematician
Mikhail Gromov, Russian mathematician
Laurent Lafforgue, French mathematician
Michel Raynaud, French mathematician
William Thurston, US mathematician
Andrew Wiles, British mathematician
Stephen Smale, US mathematician
Jean Baptiste Biot, French physicist
James J Sylvester, English mathematician
Pietro Giannone, Italian historian
William Whewell, English polymath
Agostino Ramelli, Italian engineer
Lord William Thomson Kelvin
Ruggero Boscovich, Croatian astronomer
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist
Nigel Weiss, British astrophysicist
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
Nicholas Saunderson, mathematician
Elias Loomis, American mathematician
Bernhard Riemann.
Portrait of Andre Ampere