Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Title page of Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, 1632
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
Title page of Galileo's 'Sidereus Nuncius', 1610
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
Otto von Guericke, German engineer
Denis Papin, French physicist
Magdeburg vacuum experiment, 1650s
Arnold Wolfendale, British astronomer
Giambattista della Porta Italian polymath
Air pressure experiment, 1648
Tycho Brahe's Astronomical Instruments title page
Johannes Kepler's birthplace
Papin's steam engine demonstration, 1688
Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician
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Edward Charles Pickering.
Hevelius's book on comets, 1668
The trajectory of a cannon ball shown as a parabolic path rather than a circular arc.
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Jesuit missions to China, 17th century
Newton's catadioptric telescope, 1672
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus Monument, Poland
Galileo's Moon observations, 1610
Title page of Isaac Newton's 'Principia'
Astronomer
Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer
Janssen at Meudon Observatory, 1893
Paris Observatory telescope
Smyth's parallactic ladder mount
1683 Copernicus Universe early print
John Flamsteed
William Coblentz, US physicist
Mark Bailey, British astronomer
Katherine Blundell, British astronomer
Alexander Boksenberg, British astronomer
John Brown, British astronomer
Margaret Penston, British astronomer
Birthplace of Copernicus, Poland
Francis Graham-Smith, British astronomer
Tycho Brahe' s De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis
Markree Observatory telescope
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Page from Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Benjamin Montesinos, astrophysicist
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
Donald Lynden-Bell, British astronomer
M. Rowan-Robinson, British astronomer
Bernard Carr, British astronomer
Nicolaus Copernicus
Astronomer using a telescope
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Magic lantern display, 17th century
Solar observatory
Gill in Cape Observatory study
John Dee, English astrologer
Seth Chandler, US astronomer
Benjamin Gould, US astronomer
James Nasmyth, Scottish engineer
Fine Guidance Sensor
Milky Way and astronomer
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Oronce Fine, French cartographer
Amateur Astronomer
Leonard Culhane, British astrophysicist
George Efstathiou, British cosmologist
Andrew Fabian, British astrophysicist
John Peacock, British cosmologist
Messier marathon, Iran
Jesse Ramsden, English instrument maker
30-inch telescope, Helwan, Egypt
Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer
Johannes Kepler, astronomer
17th Century chemist, artwork
David Levy
Observatory of Strasbourg
Maria Mitchell, US astronomer
Gerard Gilmore, NZ-British astronomer
Nicolas Lemery, French pharmacist
William Herschel, English astronomer
Contents page of Philosophical Transactions, 1666
Henry Parkhurst, US astronomer
Camille Flammarion, French astronomer
John Herschel, British astronomer
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Peters.
Ancient Chinese astronomer.
Karl Ludwig Hencke, German astronomer
John Couch Adams, British astronomer
View of Jill Tarter, American astronomer, at work
Dominique Francois Jean Arago, astronomer
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Urbain Le Verrier, French astronomer
Frontispiece of Hypotyposis cometae
Malcolm Longair, British astrophysicist
Leon Mestel, British astrophysicist
Simon White, British cosmologist
Alchemist at work, 19th century
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Bengt Stromgren, Danish astrophysicist
Title page of Kircher's Ars magna, 1646
Illustration of a camera obscura
Kircher's book on optics, 1671 edition
Kircher's disc viewer, 17th century
Amateur astronomers
Telescope, Durham University
William Harvey, English physician
Charles de l'Ecluse, Flemish botanist
Title page of Leeuwenhoek's Arcana naturae detecta
Adam Schall, German Jesuit astronomer
Patrick Moore, British astronomer
William Whewell, English polymath
William Whewell, British polymath
17th Century alchemist, artwork
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Lewis Boss, US astronomer
Richard Proctor, British astronomer
Charles Young, US astronomer
Astronomer under a starry sky
Title page of Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Margaret Burbidge, British-US astronomer
Professor Sir Roger Penrose
Konrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist
Leviathan of Birr, Ireland, 19th century
Karl Gauss
Martin Luther, German theologian
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
1620 Henry Saville founder Savilian Chair
Microcosm and macrocosm, 17th century
An astronomer (Ptolemy of Alexandria?)
Kepler's cosmological model
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
Frederick Brodie, British astronomer
25-inch Newall refractor telescope, 1873
Historical engraving of a lemming
Aryabhata mathematician and astronomer
Sun and Moon astrology, 16th century
John Locke, English philosopher
1650's Portrait Pierre Belon Naturalist
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
Native American dance, 16th century
Camille Flammarion, US astronomer
Ken Pounds, British astrophysicist
Title page of Huygens's 'Astroscopia Compendiaria' (1684)
Title page of Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Jupiter from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Orion Nebula from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Saturn from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Sandra Chapman, British astrophysicist
Yvonne Elsworth, British astrophysicist
Carlos Frenk, Mexican-British cosmologist
Russian physicist Dmitri Skobeltzyn
Stargazer viewing Scorpius and Sagittariu
Twilight Stargazing
Astronomical Occultation