Letter written by Vasco da Gama, 1500s
Diary of Vasco da Gama's 1497 voyage
Tomb of Vasco da Gama, Lisbon
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Map of the Americas, circa 1600
Sebastian Cabot, Italian explorer
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
Jeronimos Monastery, Lisbon
Cloisters of Jeronimos Monastery, Lisbon
John Colet, English humanist
Belem Tower, Lisbon
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
17th-century rock inscription, New Mexico
Ferdinand Magellan, Portuguese explorer
Death playing a drum, 19th C illustration
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
肖像画
European in the Americas, 16th century
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Poland
Birthplace of Copernicus, Poland
Nicolaus Copernicus
Thomas Cavendish, English explorer
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch theologian
Martin Luther, German theologian
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
Jacopo Barozzi Da Vignola, Italian architect
Columbus arrives in the Americas, 1492
Giorgione da Castelfranco, Italian Renaissance painter
Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer
Copernicus presenting his theory
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
Tycho Brahe's Astronomical Instruments title page
Tlaltecuhtli, Aztec deity
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
1665 Johan Nieuhoff Explorer Portrait
Death of Inca ruler Atahualpa, 1533
Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan
Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar
Raffaellino del Garbo, Italian painter
Leonardo Da Vinci's water lifting devices
1650's Portrait Pierre Belon Naturalist
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
John Colet, English humanist theologian
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
Andreas Vesalius, Dutch anatomist
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits
Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist
Petrus Bertius, Flemish cartographer
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer
Painting depicting Henry VII of England granting John Cabot a patent
Malleus Maleficarum, 1520 edition
Little Moreton Hall, UK
Jan Hus, Czech religious reformer
Vasco de Gama, Portuguese explorer
Chalchiuhtlicue, Aztec goddess
Map of the Arctic, 16th century
Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Italian lawyer
Johannes Stabius, Austrian cartographer
Johannes Trithemius, German polymath
COLUMBUS: LA RABIDA.
Monument to the discoveries
The Unicorn in Captivity, circa 1500
Leonardo da Vinci
Columbus returns to Spain, February 1493
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
Chapel of Bones, Evora, Portugal
17th Century chemist, artwork
Ulrik Huber, Dutch jurist
Title page of Isaac Newton's 'Principia'
Title page of Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, 1632
Title page of Leeuwenhoek's Arcana naturae detecta
Harriot's 1631 book on algebra
Global maritime map, 16th century
1566 Guillame Rondelet Portrait naturalis
John Knox, Scottish theologian
Konrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist
Leonhard Thurneisser, German physician
Oronce Fine, French cartographer
Johannes Kepler's birthplace
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer
Ramon Llull, Majorcan philosopher
Tycho Brahe' s De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis
Victor de Compiegne, French explorer
Christopher Columbus, Genoese explorer
Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
William I, Prince of Orange
Joachim Camerarius, German scholar
David Livingstone (1813-73), Scottish Missionary and Explorer, Portrait
Hillary and Miller, New Zealand mountaineers
Ancient Chinese astronomer.
Albertus Magnus, German theologian
Amerigo Vespucci.
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
John Locke, English philosopher
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
King Henry VIII of England
Euphrasia officinalis plant, illustration
Nostradamus statue, France
Elizabeth I gold coin
Title page of Galileo's 'Sidereus Nuncius', 1610
Planispheric astrolobe
Egyptian obelisks, 16th century
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
Gerardus Mercator, Dutch cartographer
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Durer's, St Jerome in his study.
Francis Drake, English explorer
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
Sebastian Munster, German cartographer
Sebastain Munster, German cartographer
Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer
Native American dance, 16th century
Kent artillery fort, 16th century
Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect
Knave of Nooses from Cloisters playing cards, 15th century
Divinity School, University of Oxford
Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Spanish alchemist
Roger Bacon, English philosopher
Geber, Islamic Spanish alchemist
Monument to explorer, Christopher Columbus.
Dyeing cloth, 15th-century manuscript
Siege of Jerusalem by Saladin, 1187
Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
17th Century alchemist, artwork
Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist
Elisha Kane, US physician and explorer
Africa, 1595 Mercator atlas
Self-portrait, conceptual image
Senglea, Malta
Mughal architecture, Fatehpur Sikri, India
The seven works of mercy, 16th century painting
The Harvesters, 1565
Stralsund during the Thirty Years' War
Lorenzo de' Medici, Italian statesman
Christian Wolff, German philosopher
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
Alchemist at work, 19th century
Contents page from Philosophical Transactions, 1666
Agostino Ramelli, Italian engineer
Hevelius's book on comets, 1668
Northern hemisphere map, 16th Century
Sir Henry Morton Stanley
Camille Douls, French explorer
Elisee Trivier, French explorer
George Back, British explorer
Scott's polar party burial cairn, 1912
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher
John Calvin, French theologian
The Anatomy of an Horse (1683)
Gerard de Lairesse, Dutch painter
1565 John Knox Scottish Presbyterian
I-SAAN airship, historical image
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Air pressure experiment, 1648
Alchemist at work, 18th century
Northern Party Antarctic ice cave, 1912