Christian Wolff, German philosopher
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl Shaftsbury
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
Goldweigher, 17th century
John Locke, English philosopher
Ulrik Huber, Dutch jurist
17th Century philosopher, artwork
Martin Luther, German theologian
Alchemist at work, 18th century
Richard Bentley, English scholar
Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman
Pietro Giannone, Italian historian
Michael Maier, German physician
John Knox, Scottish theologian
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
Sir William Temple, English statesman
Queen Elizabeth I, English monarch
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
King Henry VIII of England
Herbert of Cherbury, English philosopher
Nicholas Culpeper, English physician
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
David Hume, Scottish philosopher
Thomas Bodley, English diplomat
Gerardus Mercator, Dutch cartographer
Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
Alchemist at work, 19th century
Gustavus Adolphus the Great, King of Sweden
John Colet, English humanist
Agostino Ramelli, Italian engineer
Sir Joseph Banks, English naturalist
Alchemy satire, 18th-century artwork
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing (1729-81), German Writer, Philosopher, Dramatist, Publicist and Art Critic, Engraving, 1873
Thomas Wright, British astronomer
Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
The quack, 17th century oil painting
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
Abbe Nollet
Joachim Camerarius, German scholar
17th Century alchemist, artwork
New Zealand warrior chief, 18th century
John Hunter, Scottish surgeon
Sebastian Cabot, Italian explorer
Guillaume Philandrier, French humanist
Cornelius Valerius, Dutch humanist
17th Century chemist, artwork
Tycho Brahe's Astronomical Instruments title page
Joseph Addison, English essayist
Title page of Huygens's 'Astroscopia Compendiaria' (1684)
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
The seven works of mercy, 16th century painting
Giorgione da Castelfranco, Italian Renaissance painter
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford
Death playing a drum, 19th C illustration
Thomas Cromwell, English statesman
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
The Woman Taking Coffee, 18th century
Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist
Nicolas Lemery, French pharmacist
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
Denis Papin, French physicist
Gerard de Lairesse, Dutch painter
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
Melampulach, Arab physician
Ismail I, Shah of Persia
Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Italian lawyer
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar
Abyssinian priest, historical artwork
Rhubarb cultivation, 16th century
African herbal tree, 16th century
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1518)
Native American chief, 16th century
Jacopo Barozzi Da Vignola, Italian architect
17th Century doctor, artwork
Jedediah Buxton, English mathematician
Johann von Goethe, German author
Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist
Tartaglia on ballistics, 16th century
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
Father of Albrecht Durer.
Medieval comic poem, 16th century
French Royal Academy of Sciences, 1671
Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher
Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), Dutch Botanist, Chemist, Christian Humanist and Physician, Head and Shoulders Engraving
William I, Prince of Orange
John Dryden, English poet and playwright
Title page of Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
The Smokers, 17th century
Map of Alsace, 17th century
Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)
Harriot's 1631 book on algebra
Chapel of Bones, Evora, Portugal
Stralsund during the Thirty Years' War
Tobacco plant, 17th century artwork
Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian printer
Title page of Politiae literariae, 1540
Martyrdom of John Hooper, 1555
Caribbean millet brew, 16th century
European in the Americas, 16th century
South American cannibals, 16th century
The Dance of Death, 16th century
Nostradamus statue, France
Solon of Athens, Greek statesman and lawmaker
Italian poetry frontispiece, 18th century
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, 1679 artwork
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux (1636-1711), French Poet and Critic, Head and Shoulders Engraving
Mary the Jewess, first true alchemist
1532 A war machine in the form of a horse
Frederic Bartholdi, French sculptor
Almroth Wright, British bacteriologist
Francois Boucher (1703-1770), French Painter and Etcher, Engraving, 1770
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
Dioscorides, Ancient Greek physician
The sick woman, 17th century painting
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Native American dead chiefs, 16th century
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Swedish Pomeranian chemist
Tycho Brahe' s De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis
Wallis's Operum Mathematicorum, 1657
Operum Mathematicorum, 1656
Mother checking a child's hair for lice, illustraiton
Potosi, Bolivia, 17th Century artwork
1566 Guillame Rondelet Portrait naturalis
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer
Johannes Stabius, Austrian cartographer
Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
Janos Zsamboky, Hungarian humanist
Christophe Plantin, French printer
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
Witchcraft, 18th century
A Goldsmith in his Shop, 15th century
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Illustration of a camera obscura
William Hyde Wollaston, British chemist
Benjamin Franklin, American scientist
Charles Bell, Scottish anatomist
John Dee, English astrologer
17th-century rock inscription, New Mexico
Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian
Tomb of Vasco da Gama, Lisbon
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
Joseph Priestley, British chemist
Richard Lovett, British physicist
Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, 1805
Geber, Islamic Spanish alchemist
Philip IV of Spain, circa 1624
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
Kent artillery fort, 16th century
Project Excelsior, historical image
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Dutch humanist
William Shakespeare, English playwright
Francis Drake, English explorer
Jupiter from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Saturn from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)