Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
Martyrdom of John Hooper, 1555
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer
Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan
Christophe Plantin, French printer
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
Pietro Giannone, Italian historian
Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Italian lawyer
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
Pico della Mirandola, Italian philosopher
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1518)
Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian printer
Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
King Henry VIII of England
Ismail I, Shah of Persia
Abyssinian priest, historical artwork
John Knox, Scottish theologian
Johannes Stabius, Austrian cartographer
Sebastian Cabot, Italian explorer
Guillaume Philandrier, French humanist
Cornelius Valerius, Dutch humanist
Melampulach, Arab physician
Rhubarb cultivation, 16th century
European in the Americas, 16th century
The Dance of Death, 16th century
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1516)
Dante Alighieri, Italian poet
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
1565 John Knox Scottish Presbyterian
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
Title page of Politiae literariae, 1540
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch theologian
Death playing a drum, 19th C illustration
Caribbean millet brew, 16th century
South American cannibals, 16th century
African herbal tree, 16th century
Dioscorides, Ancient Greek physician
John Colet, English humanist
Raffaellino del Garbo, Italian painter
Creation of Adam from clay, 15th century
Henry VIII, King of England
Mary I, Queen of England and Ireland
Medieval comic poem, 16th century
Janos Zsamboky, Hungarian humanist
Captive giraffe, 16th century
Surveying methods, 16th century
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch scholar
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist
Theodorus Gaza, Greek humanist
1532 A war machine in the form of a horse
Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist and author
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Boccaccio
Johann Faust, German printer
Arabian horned creature, 16th century
Rhinoceros and elephant, 16th century
Egyptian obelisks, 16th century
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher
Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer
Thomas Cromwell, English statesman
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
African artefact, 17th century
Persecution of Catholics, 17th century
Bernard Abattia, French astrologer
Mythical hybrid creature, 16th century
Pineapple, 16th century
South American tree, 16th century
Cassava plant, 16th century
Mythical water creature, 16th century
Horse's skull, 16th century
Horse's hoof, 16th century
Historical illustration of distillation
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
1532 A medieval dive helmet aqualung
1532 A medieval diving suit Vegetalius
Muslim circumcision rite, 16th century
Albrecht Durer's Nemesis.
Albrecht Durer's Sea Monster engraving
Durer's 'Whore of Babylon' engraving.
Martin Luther, German theologian
Ethiopian animal, 16th century
Captive sloth, 16th century
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
Illustration of a camera obscura
Bear hunting, 16th century
Tobacco cultivation, 16th century
Hunting bison, 16th century
Gerardus Mercator, Dutch cartographer
Native American chief, 16th century
Rodolphus Agricola, Dutch humanist
Francesco Petrarch, Italian poet
William Shakespeare, English playwright
Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury
The seven works of mercy, 16th century painting
Joachim Camerarius, German scholar
The Unicorn in Captivity, circa 1500
Father of Albrecht Durer.
Durer's, St Jerome in his study.
Charles Dickens, British author
Letter written by Vasco da Gama, 1500s
Native American dance, 16th century
Elephant trapping, 16th century
South American healing, 16th century
Mythical creature, 16th century
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
1566 Guillame Rondelet Portrait naturalis
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Alfonso the Magnanimous, King of Aragon
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
Italian poetry frontispiece, 18th century
Tlaltecuhtli, Aztec deity
Johannes Trithemius, German polymath
Goldweigher, 17th century
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, British Poet
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
John Milton, English poet
Toucan, 16th century
SHAKESPEARE: RICHARD III.
1705 African Manticore of Ctesias
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Distillation glassware historical artwork
Leonardo da Vinci
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
Christian Wolff, German philosopher
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Poland
Birthplace of Copernicus, Poland
Nicolaus Copernicus
Cicero's collected works, 17th century
Suetonius writing The Twelve Caesars
Native American chiefs, 16th century
Native American dead chiefs, 16th century
Chalchiuhtlicue, Aztec goddess
Leon Battista Alberti, Italian polymath
ALBRECHT D RER (1471-1528).
Sir William Temple, English statesman
Frederick I Barbarossa Holy Roman Emperor
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Saint Albertus Magnus, German philosopher
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Joseph Addison, English essayist
John Colet, English humanist theologian
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
Robert Estienne, French printer
1607 Manticore or Mantichore monster
Francois de Chateaubriand, French writer
Edgar Allan Poe, US author and poet
Herbert George Wells, British author
Alchemist at work, 18th century
Kent artillery fort, 16th century
Albertus Magnus, Italian Dominican friar
Queen Elizabeth I, English monarch
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer
WITTENBERG, GERMANY, 1509.
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
Niccolo Tribolo, Italian sculptor and architect
Giorgione da Castelfranco, Italian Renaissance painter
John Locke, English philosopher
Michael Maier, German physician
William I, Prince of Orange
Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish satirist
Rudyard Kipling, British poet and author
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, 1679 artwork
Geber, Islamic Spanish alchemist
Alba Bible introduction, 15th century
Adam and Eve, 1430 artwork
Abraham's circumcision, 1430 artwork
Moses at the burning bush, 1430 artwork
The Zeal of Phineas, 1430 artwork
Circumcising the Israelites, 1430 artwork
The Ark of the Covenant, 1430 artwork
King Solomon's throne, 1430 artwork
Solomon's Temple, 1430 artwork
Capture of King Zedekiah, 1430 artwork