Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
17th Century chemist, artwork
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Nicolas Lemery, French pharmacist
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Richard Bentley, English scholar
Ulrik Huber, Dutch jurist
Alchemist at work, 19th century
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
Martin Luther, German theologian
Giambattista della Porta Italian polymath
Kenelm Digby, British alchemist
Wilhelm Ostwald, German physical chemist
Queen Elizabeth I, English monarch
17th Century alchemist, artwork
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Illustration of a camera obscura
Sir William Temple, English statesman
John Colet, English humanist
Engraving of Robert Boyle, British chemist
Distillation glassware historical artwork
Title page of Isaac Newton's 'Principia'
John Knox, Scottish theologian
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
17th Century doctor, artwork
William Harvey, English physician
Charles de l'Ecluse, Flemish botanist
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Agostino Ramelli, Italian engineer
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
John Locke, English philosopher
Pietro Giannone, Italian historian
William Gregory, Scottish chemist
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
Thomas Bodley, English diplomat
Jesuit missions to China, 17th century
Map of Alsace, 17th century
17th Century philosopher, artwork
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
Historical engraving of a lemming
Christian Wolff, German philosopher
Harriot's 1631 book on algebra
Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician
King Henry VIII of England
1650's Portrait Pierre Belon Naturalist
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Air pressure experiment, 1648
Title page of Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, 1632
Title page of Leeuwenhoek's Arcana naturae detecta
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
George Fownes, English chemist
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Thomas Cromwell, English statesman
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
Saint Albertus Magnus, German philosopher
Michael Maier, German physician
Lithograph of A.Lavoisier made in 1830
A. Lavoisier from a book of 1900
Thomas Andrews, Irish physical chemist
Nicholas Culpeper, English physician
Robert Kane, Irish chemist
William Brande, English chemist
Olaus Borrichius, Dutch chemist
Gerardus Mercator, Dutch cartographer
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Jean Baptiste Dumas, French chemist
Georg Ernst Stahl, German chemist
John Mayow FRS.
Anthony Ashley-Cooper 3rd Earl Shaftsbury
Historical illustration of distillation
Jean Baptiste von Helmont, chemist
The Anatomy of an Horse (1683)
Papin's steam engine demonstration, 1688
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer
Christian Schoenbein, German chemist
John Dee, English astrologer
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
Everardus Vorstius, Dutch physician
Thomas Sydenham, English physician
Charles Baskerville, US chemist
Charles Chandler, US chemist.
John Flamsteed
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
Thomas Thomson, Scottish chemist
Leopold Gmelin, German chemist
Victor Bloede, German-US chemist
Konrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist
1566 Guillame Rondelet Portrait naturalis
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
Eben Norton Horsfod, American chemist
Map of Ancient Germany, 17th century
John Dryden, English poet and playwright
Early form of magic lantern, 17th century
Sir Henry Roscoe, British chemist
Alchemist at work, 18th century
Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman
Joseph Black, Scottish chemist
Kircher's disc viewer, 17th century
African artefact, 17th century
17th-century rock inscription, New Mexico
Max von Pettenkofer, German chemist
Portait of Joseph Priestley, British chemist
Tycho Brahe's Astronomical Instruments title page
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
European in the Americas, 16th century
1665 Johan Nieuhoff Explorer Portrait
Joseph Scaliger, French religious scholar
Joseph Louis Proust
Native American chief, 16th century
Herbert of Cherbury, English philosopher
Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer
Wallace Carothers, US chemist
William Hyde Wollaston, British chemist
Jerome Alexander, US chemist
Thomas Huxley, British naturalist
Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)
Michael Faraday, English physicist
Adam Schall, German Jesuit astronomer
African herbal tree, 16th century
Friedrich Wohler, German organic chemist
Christoph Buys-Ballot, Dutch physicist
Hans Sloane's nautilus shell
Rhubarb cultivation, 16th century
Joseph Priestley, British chemist
Leonhard Thurneisser, German physician
Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp, German chemist
Rudolf Christian Bottger, German inorganic chemist
Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist
Charles Hatchett, British chemist
Anselme Payen, French chemist
Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist
1620 Henry Saville founder Savilian Chair
Map of Marquisate and Third District of Brabant
Michael Faraday, British physicist
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Dutch humanist
William Shakespeare, English playwright
Edward Kelley, English astrologer
Captive giraffe, 17th century
Microcosm and macrocosm, 17th century
Potosi, Bolivia, 17th Century artwork
Goldweigher, 17th century
Avicenna, Persian philosopher
Mylius' Philosophia reformata
Emblems from Mylius' Philosophia reformat
Emblems from Philosophia reformata
Johannes Kepler's birthplace
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
Portrait of the French chemist Jean Chaptal
Native American chiefs, 16th century
Scientific demonstration, 18th century
Allegory of the elements, 17th century
Robert Hare, US chemist
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