Magdeburg vacuum experiment, 1650s
Otto von Guericke, German engineer
Denis Papin, French physicist
Air pressure experiment, 1648
Papin's steam engine demonstration, 1688
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
Title page of Isaac Newton's 'Principia'
Title page of Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, 1632
De Caus on engineering, 1620s
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Kircher's disc viewer, 17th century
17th Century chemist, artwork
Nicolas Lemery, French pharmacist
Nuclear fusion research, NIF chamber
CDC 7600 supercomputer, 1970s
Alchemist at work, 19th century
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Kircher's book on optics, 1671 edition
Title page of Kircher's Ars magna, 1646
Title page of Leeuwenhoek's Arcana naturae detecta
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
William Whewell, English polymath
William Whewell, British polymath
Cray-1 supercomputer, 1983
Michael Faraday, British physicist
17th Century vacuum experiment, artwork
Antineutron discovery team, 1956
Edmond Halley, British astronomer and mathematician
Abel Niepce, French physicist
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
John Locke, English philosopher
Tesla demonstrating artificial daylight, 1890s
Contents page of Philosophical Transactions, 1666
Giambattista della Porta Italian polymath
William Harvey, English physician
Charles de l'Ecluse, Flemish botanist
Illustration of a camera obscura
Magic lantern display, 17th century
Harriot's 1631 book on algebra
17th Century alchemist, artwork
Jesuit missions to China, 17th century
Joseph Swan, British inventor
1650's Portrait Pierre Belon Naturalist
Tycho Brahe's Astronomical Instruments title page
Kenelm Digby, British alchemist
Gabriel Lippmann, French physicist
Destruction of Papin's steamboat, 1707
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Papin's pressure cooker, 17th century
Edouard Branly, French physicist
Joseph Henry, American scientist
Salomon de Caus, French engineer
Siren
James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist
Newton's catadioptric telescope, 1672
Edward Charles Pickering.
Abbe Nollet at the College of Navarre
Dalton's symbols of compound elements
Dalton's list of atomic and molecular symbols
AIRIX nuclear weapons testing
E-Cat cold fusion research
17th Century doctor, artwork
Antiproton discovery team
William Coblentz, US physicist
David Hughes, US inventor
Oliver Heaviside, British physicist
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Carey Foster, British physicist
Henry Augustus Rowland.
Henry Cavendish, British physical chemist
William Grove, Welsh physicist and jurist
Historical engraving of a lemming
Slaby's electrotechnical laboratory, 1900
Lord Kelvin, British physicist
Foucault's pendulum, Paris, 1851
John Fleming, British engineer
Joseph Henry, American physicist
Clarence Whitney Kanolt, American physicist
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Captive giraffe, 17th century
17th Century philosopher, artwork
Microcosm and macrocosm, 17th century
Potosi, Bolivia, 17th Century artwork
Chinese-US physicist Chien-Shiung Wu and colleagues, 1963
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft.
Transmission electron microscopy, 1950s
Contents page from Philosophical Transactions, 1666
Tycho Brahe' s De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis
1665 Johan Nieuhoff Explorer Portrait
Mary the Jewess, first true alchemist
Henri Victor Regnault
George Gabriel Stokes, British physicist
Gustav Kirchhoff, Robert Bunsen, and Henry Roscoe.
Jean Baptiste Biot, French physicist
Johannes Kepler's birthplace
Michael Faraday, English physicist
Laser Megajoule construction
Weill and Nielsen, French physicist and US engineer
Radiation dose monitoring
Professor Sir Roger Penrose
Graphene research
Morienus the Greek and Khalid ibn Yazid
Thomas Young, English physicist
Native American dance, 16th century
Nikola Tesla, Serb-US physicist
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
Laser Megajoule monocrystal
Optical resonator
Benjamin Thompson Rumford.
Arthur Webster, US physicist
Matthew Sands
Richard C Tolman, US physicist
Samuel Milner, British physicist
Ugo Fano, Italian theoretical physicist
Early phosphorescent light photograph
Robert Bunsen, Gustav Kirchoff and Henry Roscoe
Suetonius writing The Twelve Caesars
Gerard Blasius, Dutch anatomist
Black hole event, ATLAS detector montage
Magnet used by Faraday
The Anatomy of an Horse (1683)
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
Construction of Vivitron accelerator
Magnetic field strength meter
Magnetic field analyser
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
Hyperion supercomputer
Jupiter from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Saturn from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Title page of Huygens's 'Astroscopia Compendiaria' (1684)
Title page of Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Orion Nebula from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist
Surface analysis research
1620 Henry Saville founder Savilian Chair
Everardus Vorstius, Dutch physician
Thomas Sydenham, English physician
Map of Alsace, 17th century
Map of Ancient Germany, 17th century
Map of Marquisate and Third District of Brabant
Petrus Bertius, Flemish cartographer
Transmission electron microscopy, 1960s
James Joule, British physicist
Benjamin Montesinos, astrophysicist
Avicenna, Persian philosopher
Mylius' Philosophia reformata
Emblems from Mylius' Philosophia reformat
Emblems from Philosophia reformata
Alexander Dallas Bache, US physicist
C H Johnson, US physicist
Alchemist at work, 18th century
Konrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist
Frontispiece of Hypotyposis cometae
Matricaria plant, 17th century
Microscopic flea anatomy, 17th century
Persecution of Catholics, 17th century
William Eccles, British physicist
Simeon Poisson, French physicist
Thomas Dexter Grist Mill, USA
Dodo, 1626 artwork
Abbe Nollet
Aurel Stodola, Slovak engineer and physicist
Dark matter detector