Medieval comic poem, 16th century
Native American chief, 16th century
Kent artillery fort, 16th century
Rhubarb cultivation, 16th century
Native American dance, 16th century
Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1518)
European in the Americas, 16th century
The Dance of Death, 16th century
African herbal tree, 16th century
Native American dead chiefs, 16th century
Bankruptcy punishment, 16th century
Surveying methods, 16th century
Egyptian obelisks, 16th century
Captive giraffe, 16th century
Caribbean millet brew, 16th century
South American cannibals, 16th century
Native American chiefs, 16th century
Native American ceremony, 16th century
Sun and Moon astrology, 16th century
South American tree, 16th century
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Native Americans cooking, 16th century
Arabian horned creature, 16th century
Rhinoceros and elephant, 16th century
Native American village, 16th century
Tobacco cultivation, 16th century
Bear hunting, 16th century
Hunting bison, 16th century
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
Northern hemisphere map, 16th Century
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Melampulach, Arab physician
Ismail I, Shah of Persia
Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Italian lawyer
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
Abyssinian priest, historical artwork
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
Gerardus Mercator, Dutch cartographer
Ethiopian animal, 16th century
Elephant trapping, 16th century
Captive sloth, 16th century
Mythical creature, 16th century
Tower of Babel, 17th-century artwork
Muslim circumcision rite, 16th century
South American healing, 16th century
Pineapple, 16th century
Goldweigher, 17th century
Hanging Gardens of Babylon, 1679 artwork
Cassava plant, 16th century
1705 African Manticore of Ctesias
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1516)
Fludd's account of creation
John Milton, English poet
Martyrdom of John Hooper, 1555
Horse's skull, 16th century
Horse's hoof, 16th century
William I, Prince of Orange
Joachim Camerarius, German scholar
Father of Albrecht Durer.
Dioscorides, Ancient Greek physician
Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist
Sebastian Cabot, Italian explorer
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
The seven works of mercy, 16th century painting
Brahe observing the supernova of 1572
Raffaellino del Garbo, Italian painter
Martin Luther, German theologian
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
Scene from Persian epic poem Shahnameh, 16th century
Alchemist at work, 18th century
Alchemist at work, 19th century
Guillaume Philandrier, French humanist
Cornelius Valerius, Dutch humanist
John Colet, English humanist
Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian printer
Title page of Politiae literariae, 1540
John Knox, Scottish theologian
King Henry VIII of England
Cicero's collected works, 17th century
Microcosm and macrocosm, 17th century
Jesuit missions to China, 17th century
Mythical hybrid creature, 16th century
Mythical water creature, 16th century
Re-thatching a cottage roof
Death of Inca ruler Atahualpa, 1533
Global maritime map, 16th century
Tycho Brahe's Astronomical Instruments title page
William Shakespeare, English playwright
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
Project Excelsior, historical image
Apothecary in Romeo and Juliet, 1805
Geber, Islamic Spanish alchemist
Mary the Jewess, first true alchemist
17th Century philosopher, artwork
Muhammad, Prophet of Islam
Francis Drake, English explorer
17th Century chemist, artwork
Captive giraffe, 17th century
Death playing a drum, 19th C illustration
Hanging of witches, 17th century
Persecution of Catholics, 17th century
Tobacco farming, Barbados, 17th century
Toucan, 16th century
Christian Wolff, German philosopher
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
Niccolo Tribolo, Italian sculptor and architect
1607 Manticore or Mantichore monster
John Colet, English humanist theologian
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
Andreas Vesalius, Dutch anatomist
De Caus on engineering, 1620s
Map of the Arctic, 16th century
Leonardo da Vinci
1650's Portrait Pierre Belon Naturalist
Jacopo Sansovino, Italian sculptor and architect
Sebastian Munster, German cartographer
John Locke, English philosopher
Michael Maier, German physician
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
16th-century stone dovecot
Early form of magic lantern, 17th century
Guy Fawkes' lantern, 17th century
Papin's pressure cooker, 17th century
1565 John Knox Scottish Presbyterian
African artefact, 17th century
Queen Elizabeth I, English monarch
1532 A medieval dive helmet aqualung
1532 A medieval diving suit Vegetalius
The Woman Taking Coffee, 18th century
Kircher's Tower of Babel, 17th century
Italian poetry frontispiece, 18th century
Boccaccio
Solon of Athens, Greek statesman and lawmaker
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
Johannes Stabius, Austrian cartographer
Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
Janos Zsamboky, Hungarian humanist
Christophe Plantin, French printer
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
The Smokers, 17th century
Nostradamus statue, France
Albrecht Durer's Nemesis.
Albrecht Durer's Sea Monster engraving
Durer's 'Whore of Babylon' engraving.
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
Henry VIII, King of England
Mary I, Queen of England and Ireland
Morienus the Greek and Khalid ibn Yazid
Canadian hunters, 16th century
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch humanist
1588 De Bry ancient Pict Celtic Woman
Euphrasia officinalis plant, illustration
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Kittinger's descent, Project Excelsior
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Salomon de Caus, French engineer
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
Otto von Guericke, German engineer
Denis Papin, French physicist