Ulrik Huber, Dutch jurist
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Italian lawyer
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
Richard Bentley, English scholar
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
Christian Wolff, German philosopher
Martin Luther, German theologian
Antonio Gobio, Italian lawyer
Queen Elizabeth I, English monarch
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
John Colet, English humanist
Harriot's 1631 book on algebra
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer
17th-century rock inscription, New Mexico
Sir William Temple, English statesman
John Knox, Scottish theologian
Pietro Giannone, Italian historian
17th Century chemist, artwork
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
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
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
The quack, 17th century oil painting
Gerardus Mercator, Dutch cartographer
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
John Locke, English philosopher
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Nicholas Culpeper, English physician
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
Jeremy Bentham, English social reformer
Agostino Ramelli, Italian engineer
Thomas Cromwell, English statesman
Thomas Bodley, English diplomat
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Dutch humanist
The Dance of Death, 16th century
King Henry VIII of England
17th Century philosopher, artwork
Map of Alsace, 17th century
Alchemist at work, 18th century
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician
Goldweigher, 17th century
Andreas Vesalius, Dutch anatomist
John Dryden, English poet and playwright
Solon of Athens, Greek statesman and lawmaker
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
Michael Maier, German physician
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
Thomas Coventry.
Cornelius Valerius, Dutch humanist
John Selden, English humanist polymath
Gustavus Adolphus the Great, King of Sweden
1566 Guillame Rondelet Portrait naturalis
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
Stralsund during the Thirty Years' War
The Anatomy of an Horse (1683)
Alchemist at work, 19th century
Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman
Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl Shaftsbury
Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)
1665 Johan Nieuhoff Explorer Portrait
Giambattista della Porta Italian polymath
William Harvey, English physician
Joseph Scaliger, French religious scholar
Charles de l'Ecluse, Flemish botanist
Tobacco plant, 17th century artwork
Map of Ancient Germany, 17th century
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
Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician
Letter written by Vasco da Gama, 1500s
Tycho Brahe's Astronomical Instruments title page
Gerard de Lairesse, Dutch painter
William Shakespeare, English playwright
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Illustration of a camera obscura
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
John Dee, English astrologer
Gerard Blasius, Dutch anatomist
Early form of magic lantern, 17th century
Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist
African artefact, 17th century
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
Everardus Vorstius, Dutch physician
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
1650's Portrait Pierre Belon Naturalist
John Colet, English humanist theologian
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits
Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist
Petrus Bertius, Flemish cartographer
Guyton de Morveau
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch theologian
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
Herbert of Cherbury, English philosopher
Map of Marquisate and Third District of Brabant
John Scopes, American schoolteacher
Jacopo Barozzi Da Vignola, Italian architect
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Cope Whitehouse, US archaeologist
Philip IV of Spain, circa 1628
The sick woman, 17th century painting
Nicolas Lemery, French pharmacist
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
Otto von Guericke, German engineer
Denis Papin, French physicist
Magdeburg vacuum experiment, 1650s
Alchemy satire, 18th-century artwork
Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist
Distillation glassware historical artwork
Guillaume Philandrier, French humanist
Title page of Galileo's 'Sidereus Nuncius', 1610
Cicero
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Study of a head and horsemen
17th Century alchemist, artwork
Title page of Huygens's 'Astroscopia Compendiaria' (1684)
European in the Americas, 16th century
Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC)
Mylius' Philosophia reformata
Contents page of Philosophical Transactions, 1666
The seven works of mercy, 16th century painting
Giorgione da Castelfranco, Italian Renaissance painter
1693 Flying fish Johan Nieuhof
Fludd's account of creation
1620 Ludovic Stewart Duke Richmond Maine
John Milton, English poet
Roman women protesting at the capitol, 17th century painting
Native American chief, 16th century
Title page of Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
The Woman Taking Coffee, 18th century
Air pressure experiment, 1648
Fludd's wind diagram
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist
Daniel Heinsius, Dutch poet and scholar
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1st volume
Title page of first edition of Acta eruditorum, 1682
Page from Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Johannes Stabius, Austrian cartographer
Janos Zsamboky, Hungarian humanist
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
Thomas Wright, British astronomer
Suetonius writing The Twelve Caesars
Jesuit missions to China, 17th century
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician
Father of Albrecht Durer.
Tartaglia on ballistics, 16th century
Kurt Schuschnigg.
William Rehnquist.
John Marshall Harlan.
John Somers or Sommers.
William Hellyer, English administrator