Mary the Jewess, first true alchemist
Morienus the Greek and Khalid ibn Yazid
Native American chief, 16th century
Native American dance, 16th century
De Caus on engineering, 1620s
Alchemist at work, 18th century
Alchemist at work, 19th century
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Arnaldus de Villa Nova, Spanish alchemist
17th Century alchemist, artwork
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
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Ramon Llull, Majorcan philosopher
Fludd's energy and substance
Early form of magic lantern, 17th century
Stralsund during the Thirty Years' War
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
Kenelm Digby, British alchemist
Melchior Cibinensis, Hungarian alchemist
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
17th Century philosopher, artwork
Native American chiefs, 16th century
Native Americans cooking, 16th century
Hanging of witches, 17th century
Persecution of Catholics, 17th century
Tobacco farming, Barbados, 17th century
Air pressure experiment, 1648
Papin's steam engine demonstration, 1688
Suetonius writing The Twelve Caesars
Bristol Channel floods, 1607
Fludd's wind diagram
Queen Elizabeth I, English monarch
17th century timber framed house, Confolens, France
Democritus, Greek philosopher
Avicenna, Persian philosopher
Roger Bacon, English philosopher
Emblems from Mylius' Philosophia reformat
Emblems from Philosophia reformata
Rosicrucian mystical symbol
John Dryden, English poet and playwright
Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist
John Milton, English poet
William Shakespeare, English playwright
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Goldweigher, 17th century
John Locke, English philosopher
Cicero's collected works, 17th century
17th Century chemist, artwork
Michael Maier, German physician
Native American dead chiefs, 16th century
Native American ceremony, 16th century
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Microcosm and macrocosm, 17th century
Jesuit missions to China, 17th century
Tower of Babel, 17th-century artwork
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, 1679 artwork
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Salomon de Caus, French engineer
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
Otto von Guericke, German engineer
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Denis Papin, French physicist
Magdeburg vacuum experiment, 1650s
Nicolas Lemery, French pharmacist
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
Gerard Blasius, Dutch anatomist
Potosi, Bolivia, 17th Century artwork
Antonio Gobio, Italian lawyer
Captive giraffe, 17th century
Kintai Bridge, Japan, 1910s
African artefact, 17th century
Kircher's disc viewer, 17th century
The quack, 17th century oil painting
John Harvard, English-US clergyman
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Bonaventura Vulcanius, Dutch humanist
Historical engraving of a lemming
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
Sir William Temple, English statesman
Guy Fawkes' lantern, 17th century
Mylius' Philosophia reformata
Fludd's account of creation
Water clock, design from 1646
Papin's pressure cooker, 17th century
Native American village, 16th century
The sick woman, 17th century painting
Phases of the Moon, 1708
Roman women protesting at the capitol, 17th century painting
Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
Nicholas Culpeper, English physician
Vermeer's 'The Milkmaid'
1693 Flying fish Johan Nieuhof
Hermes Trismegistus, classical god
Magic lantern display, 17th century
17th Century doctor, artwork
1705 African Manticore of Ctesias
Microscopic flea anatomy, 17th century
Project Excelsior, historical image
Kircher's book on geology, 1678 edition
Fludd's cosmology, 1617
Title page of Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, 1632
Map of Alsace, 17th century
Map of Ancient Germany, 17th century
Map of Marquisate and Third District of Brabant
Sizes of celestial bodies, 1708
Epicycles of Moon's orbit, 1708
The foot operation, 17th century painting
Portuguese navigational map of the North Pacific, 1630
Portuguese navigational map of the South Pacific, 1630
Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, 1805
1655 John Wilmott Earl of Rochester
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
Kent artillery fort, 16th century
Medieval comic poem, 16th century
1620 Ludovic Stewart Duke Richmond Maine
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Illustration of a camera obscura
Tycho Brahe' s De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis
Mother checking a child's hair for lice, illustraiton
Wallis's Operum Mathematicorum, 1657
Operum Mathematicorum, 1656
Alchemical tree, Philosophia reformata
Frontispiece of Hypotyposis cometae
Fludd's system of health
Matricaria plant, 17th century
Title page of Kircher's Ars magna, 1646
Sciathericon for determining time
Kircher's book on optics, 1671 edition
European in the Americas, 16th century
The Dance of Death, 16th century
Title page of first edition of Acta eruditorum, 1682
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)
17th-century rock inscription, New Mexico
1620 Henry Saville founder Savilian Chair
Philip IV of Spain, circa 1628
Title page of Isaac Newton's 'Principia'
Solon of Athens, Greek statesman and lawmaker
Thomas Cromwell, English statesman
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
1607 Manticore or Mantichore monster
The Anatomy of an Horse (1683)
Map of the world, 17th century
Vermeer's 'The Little Street'
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1st volume
Vermeer's Woman with Balance
Figures from Philosophical Transactions, 1667
Thomas Dexter Grist Mill, USA
Divinity School, University of Oxford
Illustrations of Indian diamonds
Christian Wolff, German philosopher
1603 Ortelius Iceland Monster Map
Hans Sloane's nautilus shell
Dodo model
Dodo, 1626 artwork
Martyrdom of John Hooper, 1555
Caribbean millet brew, 16th century