Paris Observatory, 1829
Paris Observatory foundation, 1667
Measuring the size of the Earth, 1671
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Louis XIV at opening of Paris Observatory
Newtonian telescope, 19th century
Telescope, 1692 artwork
Lawson's telescope, 1853
Galileo demonstrating his telescope in 1609
Astronomer and Solar System, illustration
Johannes Kepler, German astronomer
17th Century astronomers, artwork
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Galileo Galile, Italian astronomer
English astronomer, 19th century
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch physicist
Ismail Bouillaud, French astronomer
Chinese celestial sphere, 17th century
Edmond Halley, caricature
Tycho Brahe, caricature
1620 Johannes Kepler Astronomer portrait
Cannon diagram and tables, 1669
Newton's birthplace, Woolsthorpe Manor
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer
Henry Wriothesly, English nobleman
Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer
Christiaan Huygens, caricature
Huygens's experiments on elasticity, 1650s
Tycho at his observatory of Stjerneborg, illustration
Title page of Descartes' Principia, 1692
Cartesian vortices, 1692 artwork
Lady Astronomer and Time
Telescopes, historical artwork
Hartwell Observatory, 19th century
Foucault's Pendulum lecture, 1851
Denis Papin, French physicist
Milton visiting Galileo, illustration
Tycho Brahe, illustration
Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer
The Astronomer, 18th century painting
Solar system and Nicolaus Copernicus
Ptolemy, Greek astronomer
Pierre-Paul Riquet, French engineer
Salomon de Caus, French engineer
William Leybourn, English land surveyor
Galileo receiving Milton, illustration
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
Moon observations, 1659 artwork
Cassini's Moon map, 1679
Invention of the telescope, 16th century
Paris Observatory, 17th century illustration
Newton on the three-body problem, 1686
Paris observatory, 1891 illustration
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Christopher Wren, English architect
Shivaji, founder of the Maratha Empire, illustration
Musketeers at the retreat, 19th century illustration
John Wilkins, English natural philosopher
Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist
Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist
Giovanni Borelli, Italian mathematician
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
John Evans, Welsh astrologer
17th Century vacuum experiment, artwork
17th Century mathematics manuscript
William Harvey, English physician
Gottfried Leibniz, German mathematician
Simon Marius, German astronomer
17th Century pyrotechnist, illustration
17th Century playing cards factory
Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer
John Wallis, English mathematician
William Tulley, British optics maker
Lord Rosse's 3-foot telescope, Ireland
18th Century astronomer, artwork
William and Caroline Herschel, illustration
Astronomer, 19th century illustration
1636 Galileo Galilei portrait astronomer
Henry Unton, English diplomat
Robert Devereux, English nobleman
Tycho Brahe's mural quadrant, illustration
Nicolaus Petri van Deventer, mathematician and astronomer
John Peckham, Archbishop of Canterbury
John Peckham's Perspectiva Communis
Newton on elliptical motion, 1686
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
Land surveying tools, 1722 diagrams
Plague doctor, 17th century artwork
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
Galilean world system, 1632
Margaret Cavendish, British philosopher
Babylonian astronomers
17th Century astronomer, illustration
Galileo's Moon observations, illustration
Frontispiece of Galileo's book on cosmology
17th century artillery team, illustration
Virginia Galileo, Galileo's daughter
Kepler's World Map, 1627
Title page of Argoli's Ephemerides, 1659
Lunar phases diagram, 1659
Jovian satellites diagram, 1659
Geocentric cosmology, 1696 artwork
Cosmological elements, 1696 artwork
Three cosmologies, 1696 artwork
Moon map, 1696 artwork
Northern constellations, 1696 artwork
Fludd's macrocosmic world view, 1617
Comets in Wright's theory of the universe, 1750
Gout and the Spider, allegorical artwork
Otto von Guericke and electrostatics, 17th century
Visible light spectrum experiment
Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician
Boyle's experiments on air, 1669 artwork
The Compleat Surveyor, 1722
Winds diagram, 1696
Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionary
Cervantes, Spanish author
Henry Purcell, English composer
17th Century architect, illustration
Weight of gold, 19th Century engraving
Lawrence Echard, British historian
John Frederick Herschel, English astronomer and scientist
Faust by Rembrandt, 17th Century artwork
Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman
Francois Quesnay, French economist
Baruch de Spinoza, 19th century illustration
Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher
Newton's house, 35 St Martin's Street
French Royal Academy of Sciences, 1671
Newton's observatory, St Martin's Street
Charles Leigh, English physician
Northern constellations, 1690 artwork
Southern constellations, 1690 artwork
1590 Tycho Brahe Danish Astronomer
Ptolemy and Euclid, 17th century artwork
Gaspare Aselli, Italian surgeon
John Arbuthnot, Scottish physician
William Harvey lecturing on circulation
Great Equitorial Telescope, Greenwich
Apothecary, satirical artwork
Surgeon, satirical artwork
Neurofibromatosis, 17th century artwork
Christopher Clavius, German astronomer
Galileo's observations of stars in Orion, 1610
Galileo's observations of stars in the Pleiades, 1610
William Dampier, English explorer
Willebrord Snell, Dutch mathematician
Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch astronomer
Isaac Barrow, English mathematician
Wheel chart, 1696 artwork
Johan De Witt, Dutch statesman and mathematician
Title page of Sphaera Mundi, 1552
Elements diagram, 1552
Compass rose, 1552 artwork
Title page of Signorum Coelestium, 1553
De revolutionibus title page, 1543
Death of Giordano Bruno, Italian philosopher
Galileo's Moon observations, 1610
Sheep shearing, satirical artwork
Marguerite de la Sabliere, arts patron
Herschel's 40-foot telescope, 1789
Issac Newton and the apple, artwork
Olinthus Gregory, English mathematician
Chaldean astronomers