Samuel Pepys, English diarist
John Evelyn, English author
Thomas Sonnet de Courval, French poet
Thomas Browne, English physician
Richard Wiseman, English surgeon
John Selden, English legal scholar
John Arbuthnot, Scottish physician
Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist
Paul Zacchias, Italian physician
Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon
Charles Leigh, English physician
John Wallis, English mathematician
William Wollaston, English theologian
Richard Richardson, English botanist
Thomas Tanner, English antiquarian
Thomas Sydenham, English physician
William Gilbert, English physician
William Shakespeare, English playwright
Emil Rossmassler, German biologist
Henry Wriothesly, English nobleman
Sallust, Roman historian
William Leybourn, English land surveyor
Bias of Priene, Greek philosopher
Nicolaus Steno, Danish anatomist
Oliver Cromwell, English politician
Hernan Cortes, Spanish conquistador
Francois Rabelais, French satirist
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer
William Gifford, British poet and editor
Wynkyn de Worde, English printer
Sneyd Davies, English poet
Moliere, French playwright
Martin Frobisher, English explorer
Hieronymus Fabricius, Italian anatomist
Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist and author
Seneca the Elder, Roman orator
Theodore de Mayerne, Swiss physician
Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist
Jean Fernel, French physician
Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador
Edward Kelley, English astrologer
Govert Bidloo, Dutch anatomist
Satire on gluttony, 17th century
Heinrich Pantaleon, Swiss physician
Athanasius Kircher, German scholar
Matthias Untzer, German physician
Public reading room, 17th century
Cervantes, Spanish author
Moyse Charas, French apothecary
George Berkeley, Irish philosopher
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Geoffrey Chaucer, English author and poet
James Boswell, Scottish author
Persius, Roman poet
Jules Verne, French novelist
Richard Pynson, English printer
Simon Marius, German astronomer
Virgil, Roman poet
John Wilkins, English natural philosopher
Jonathan Swift by Charles Jervas, 1739
Carl Vogt, German naturalist
Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher
Nicholas Culpeper, English physician
Sebastian Brant, German satirist
Weight of gold, 19th Century engraving
King James I of England
'Jerusalem Delivered', 19th-century illustration
William Camden, English antiquarian
Cleobulus of Lindos, Greek poet
Homer, Ancient Greek poet
Moctezuma II, Aztec emperor
Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, German botanist
Voltaire, French author
John Nichols, British antiquarian
The Will Explained By Aesop, allegorical illustration
Christopher Wren, English architect
Plague doctor, 17th century artwork
Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino, Italian cardinal and diplomat
Guido Bentivoglio, Italian statesman
Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher
Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer
Pan and Apollo, 19th Century illustration
Alcibiades, Ancient Greek statesman
Samuel Pepys by Melicent S Grose, 1914
Francis Xavier, Spanish missionary
Jan Becan, Dutch physician and linguist
Alfred Brehm, German zoologist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher
Cacao fruits (Theobroma cacao), woodcut
Henry Unton, English diplomat
The Gardener and His Lord, allegorical illustration
Plan of the island of Utopia, 16th century illustration
Gilbert's magnetic dip circle
Device for determining latitude
Declinometer, 17th century
Martin Luther, German theologian
John Evans, Welsh astrologer
17th Century astronomers, artwork
The quack, 17th century oil painting
Marie de' Medici, illustration
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Titian, Italian painter
1684 Thomas Burnet Continental Drift
The Farmer, The Dog and The Fox, allegorical illustration
Mutant plants, 1696 artwork
Thomas Newcomen, English engineer
1618 Sir Francis Bacon Scientist Portrait
Thomas Craig, Scottish legal scholar
Tinsmiths, artwork
Zacharey Grey, English priest and author
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist, engineer and scientist
Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian naturalist
Joseph Duchesne, French physician
Victor Hugo, French Author, illustration
Apothecary, satirical artwork
Surgeon, satirical artwork
Thomas Bartholin, Danish physician
Portrait of a midwife, 17th century illustration
Virginia Galileo, Galileo's daughter
Adam Jerzy Czartoryski, Polish statesman and writer
Catherine of Braganza, Queen of Great Britain
17th Century experimental science diagram
Captain James Cook, British explorer
Daines Barrington, British judge
Cicero, Roman philosopher
1683 Maria Sybella Merian Metamorphosis
Johannes Kepler, German astronomer
Francois Rabelais, French writer
Christopher Columbus, Italian explorer
Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician
Robert Hooke, English natural philosopher
Simon Forman, English astrologer
William Lamb, English philanthropist
The Charlatan, allegorical illustration
The Scythian Philosopher, allegorical illustration
The Old Man and His Sons, allegorical illustration
Miser Who Had Lost His Treasure, allegorical illustration
The Satyr and The Traveller, allegorical illustration
Discord, allegorical illustration
The Cobbler and The Financier, allegorical illustration
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French statesman
Aristotelian natural place
Giuseppe Montanelli, Italian statesman and author
John Thomas Smith, British antiquarian
Samuel Pegge, English antiquarian
Pittacus of Mytilene, Greek general
Leviathan (1651)
Scene from Voltaire's 'The History of Jenni' (1774)
A. van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist
Aristotelian cosmology, 17th century
Magnetic declination, 17th Century
Four coultered plough, 17th century illustration
Rene Moreau, 17th century illustration
Faust by Rembrandt, 17th Century artwork
Nicholas Hardinge, English civil servant
George Romanes, English naturalist
Christiaan Huygens, Dutch physicist
The Thieves and the Ass, allegorical illustration
The Lark and the Landlord, allegorical illustration
Map of Hungary, 17th century
Map of Archduchy of Austria, 17th century
Christopher Columbus and the Pope, illustration
Map of the Crimean peninsula, 17th century
Pierre Corneille, French poet and dramatist
Aztec surrender, Lienzo de Tlaxcala
Hermann von Wissmann, German explorer
Herve Mangon, French engineer and politician
17th Century palmistry diagram
Anton Van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist
Francois Quesnay, French economist
Land surveying tools, 1722 diagrams
Pierre de Fermat, French mathematician
Thomas Rodd, British antiquarian
Charles Dickens, English author
Margaret Cavendish, British philosopher
Joseph Ritson, British antiquarian
Thomas Warton, British poet
Statue by Praxiteles, 17th century
'Lucrezia Borgia' by Hugo, 19th-century illustration
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Heart anatomists, 17th century
Guy Patin, French physician
Monstrous human figure, 17th century
Guaiacum syphilis treatment, 16th century
Execution of the Duke of Monmouth, 19th century illustration
Roman library, Late Roman Empire
Daniel Wray, English antiquarian
Andrea Doria, Genoese admiral