Water clock, design from 1646
Sciathericon for determining time
Elephant Water Clock
明石市立天文科学館 日本標準時子午線と漏刻
明石市立天文科学館 漏刻
Fludd's wind diagram
John Dryden, English poet and playwright
Title page of Kircher's Ars magna, 1646
Ramon Llull, Majorcan philosopher
Fludd's energy and substance
Emblems from Philosophia reformata
Emblems from Mylius' Philosophia reformat
Guy Fawkes' lantern, 17th century
Mylius' Philosophia reformata
Fludd's account of creation
Queen Elizabeth I, English monarch
Papin's pressure cooker, 17th century
Early form of magic lantern, 17th century
Mother checking a child's hair for lice, illustraiton
Planispheric astrolobe
Astrolabe Clock, German, c.1686
Vermeer's Woman with Balance
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Dutch humanist
William Shakespeare, English playwright
Mary the Jewess, first true alchemist
Democritus, Greek philosopher
Avicenna, Persian philosopher
Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Spanish alchemist
Roger Bacon, English philosopher
Rosicrucian mystical symbol
Stralsund during the Thirty Years' War
17th century timber framed house, Confolens, France
Page from Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Magic lantern display, 17th century
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
Alchemical tree, Philosophia reformata
Frontispiece of Hypotyposis cometae
Fludd's system of health
Matricaria plant, 17th century
Kircher's book on optics, 1671 edition
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Tycho Brahe' s De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis
Vermeer's 'The Milkmaid'
Wallis's Operum Mathematicorum, 1657
Operum Mathematicorum, 1656
Air pressure experiment, 1648
Nilometer in Egypt, 17th-century artwork
1620 Henry Saville founder Savilian Chair
Coin of Jahangir, 17th century
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Newton's catadioptric telescope, 1672
Garden tools, 17th century
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Philip IV of Spain, circa 1628
Historical engraving of a lemming
1620 Ludovic Stewart Duke Richmond Maine
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
John Milton, English poet
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
John Locke, English philosopher
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
1693 Flying fish Johan Nieuhof
African artefact, 17th century
Morienus the Greek and Khalid ibn Yazid
Hermes Trismegistus, classical god
Melchior Cibinensis, Hungarian alchemist
Native American chief, 16th century
Native American dance, 16th century
Kircher's disc viewer, 17th century
De Caus on engineering, 1620s
The quack, 17th century oil painting
1705 African Manticore of Ctesias
Microscopic flea anatomy, 17th century
Street clock in front of the Flatiron Building, Manhattan, New York City, New York State, USA
近江神宮と桜
Figures from Philosophical Transactions, 1667
Hanging of witches, 17th century
Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist
1683 Copernicus Universe early print
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
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
Thomas Cromwell, English statesman
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
Native American dead chiefs, 16th century
Native American ceremony, 16th century
Microcosm and macrocosm, 17th 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
Nicolas Lemery, French pharmacist
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
Gerard Blasius, Dutch anatomist
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Salomon de Caus, French engineer
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
Otto von Guericke, German engineer
Denis Papin, French physicist
Magdeburg vacuum experiment, 1650s
Tree wood anatomy by van Leeuwenhoek, 1680
Vermeer's 'The Little Street'
Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist
John Flamsteed
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
Solon of Athens, Greek statesman and lawmaker
Fludd's cosmology, 1617
Antonio Gobio, Italian lawyer
Captive giraffe, 17th century
Suetonius writing The Twelve Caesars
Dodo model
Native American village, 16th century
William I, Prince of Orange
Joachim Camerarius, German scholar
Flowers and insects, 17th century artwork
Tobacco plant, 17th century artwork
Clock
Celestial globe, 17th century
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Kenelm Digby, British alchemist
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Illustration of a camera obscura
Museum Wormianum, historical engraving
Martin Luther, German theologian
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
Raffaellino del Garbo, Italian painter
Father of Albrecht Durer.
Giorgione da Castelfranco, Italian Renaissance painter
Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)
1665 Johan Nieuhoff Explorer Portrait
Richard Bentley, English scholar
Ulrik Huber, Dutch jurist
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
Sir William Temple, English statesman
Everardus Vorstius, Dutch physician
Thomas Sydenham, English physician
Giambattista della Porta Italian polymath
Distillation glassware historical artwork
William Harvey, English physician
Joseph Scaliger, French religious scholar
Charles de l'Ecluse, Flemish botanist