Thomas Bodley, English diplomat
Herbert of Cherbury, English philosopher
Sir William Temple, English statesman
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer
Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
John Colet, English humanist
Martin Luther, German theologian
John Selden, English humanist polymath
Thomas Cromwell, English statesman
Richard Bentley, English scholar
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
Edward Gardner
John Knox, Scottish theologian
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl Shaftsbury
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Ulrik Huber, Dutch jurist
Pietro Giannone, Italian historian
Queen Elizabeth I, English monarch
Christian Wolff, German philosopher
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
Pim van Boetzelaer van Oosterhout signing the Brussels Treaty.
Evelyn Baring
Shigeru Yoshida.
Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher
John Locke, English philosopher
Gerardus Mercator, Dutch cartographer
Owen D. Young.
Horatio Walpole, 4th Earl of Oxford
Kenelm Digby, English alchemist
Baron Kentaro Kaneko, 1905
Tokutaro Sakai 1905
Baron T. Kuroki 1905
Viscount Ishii
Henry Morgenthau
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer
Folke Bernadotte.
Francis Cottington, Baron Cottington.
Henry Wotton.
Photographic portrait of Count Komura Jutar?
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
Nikola Pasic.
1566 Guillame Rondelet Portrait naturalis
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
John Colet, English humanist theologian
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
Joseph Addison, English essayist
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Kenelm Digby, British alchemist
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
European in the Americas, 16th century
Fridtjof Nansen.
Lew Wallace.
Don Jose de Yanguas y Messia.
Baron Komura 1905
King Henry VIII of England
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
Agostino Ramelli, Italian engineer
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Nicholas Culpeper, English physician
Davies Gilbert, English mathematician
Andrew Jackson Donelson (1799-1871), American Diplomat, Head and Shoulders Portrait, on Stone by C.E. Lewis from a Photo by Mathew Brady, R.J. Compton, 1856
1650's Portrait Pierre Belon Naturalist
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
Andreas Vesalius, Dutch anatomist
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist
Petrus Bertius, Flemish cartographer
Thomas Dudley, US diplomat
Allen Welsh Dulles.
Michael Maier, German physician
Aharon Remez.
William Harvey, English physician
Photographic portrait of Count Hayashi Tadasu
Photographic portrait of Claude Maxwell MacDonald
Photographic portrait of Sir Henry Mortimer Durand
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
Guillaume Philandrier, French humanist
Cornelius Valerius, Dutch humanist
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1518)
John Dryden, English poet and playwright
Ismail I, Shah of Persia
Johannes Stabius, Austrian cartographer
Janos Zsamboky, Hungarian humanist
Thomas Sydenham, English physician
Salvador de Madariaga.
Melampulach, Arab physician
Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Italian lawyer
Rhubarb cultivation, 16th century
The Dance of Death, 16th century
John Calvin, French theologian
Vijaya Lakshmi Nehru Pandit.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
William Shakespeare, English playwright
Francis Drake, English explorer
James Russell Lowell.
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
Illustration of a camera obscura
Gustavus Adolphus the Great, King of Sweden
17th-century rock inscription, New Mexico
Jedediah Buxton, English mathematician
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
1665 Johan Nieuhoff Explorer Portrait
Giambattista della Porta Italian polymath
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch theologian
Konrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist
Leonhard Thurneisser, German physician
Oronce Fine, French cartographer
Joseph Scaliger, French religious scholar
Charles de l'Ecluse, Flemish botanist
Harriot's 1631 book on algebra
Dag Hammarskjold with Swedish troops of the United Nations Command.
Daniel Heinsius, Dutch poet and scholar
Suetonius writing The Twelve Caesars
Father of Albrecht Durer.
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Late 16th century anatomy theatre
African artefact, 17th century
Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian printer
Title page of Politiae literariae, 1540
Durer's, St Jerome in his study.
Bayard Taylor (1825-78), American Poet, Literary Critic, Travel Author and Diplomat, Portrait, Sarony & Co., 1871
17th Century chemist, artwork
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Air pressure experiment, 1648
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1516)
Cicero's collected works, 17th century
Nicolas Lemery, French pharmacist
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
Tycho Brahe's Astronomical Instruments title page
Egyptian obelisks, 16th century
Study of a head and horsemen
Solon of Athens, Greek statesman and lawmaker
Native American chief, 16th century
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
1532 A war machine in the form of a horse
Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
Christophe Plantin, French printer
Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist
John Dee, English astrologer
Drawing of dog's head and hind-leg
Map of Prussia, 17th century
Map of Magdeburg and Anhalt, Germany, 17th century
Map of Alsace, 17th century
Sebastian Cabot, Italian explorer
Goldweigher, 17th century
Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar
Abyssinian priest, historical artwork
Martyrdom of John Hooper, 1555
Caribbean millet brew, 16th century
South American cannibals, 16th century
African herbal tree, 16th century