Samuel Pegge, English antiquarian
Thomas Tanner, English antiquarian
Thomas Birch, English historian
Thomas Warton, British poet
Theophilus Buckeridge, British antiquary
Charles Lyttelton, British antiquarian
Thomas Whitaker, British antiquarian
Andrew Ducarel, British antiquarian
William Wollaston, English theologian
Sneyd Davies, English poet
Zacharey Grey, English priest and author
Daniel Wray, English antiquarian
John Ives, British antiquarian
Joseph Ames, English antiquarian
John Nichols, British antiquarian
Charles Townley, British antiquarian
James Bindley, British antiquarian
John Burton, English theologian
William Stukeley, English antiquarian
Joseph Ritson, British antiquarian
Daines Barrington, British judge
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer
Joseph Banks, English naturalist
Thomas Rodd, British antiquarian
Edward Gibbon, English historian
Richard Richardson, English botanist
William Gilbert, English physician
Sallust, Roman historian
Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist
Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist
John Thomas Smith, British antiquarian
John Fothergill, English physician
Heinrich Pantaleon, Swiss physician
Jean-Antoine Nollet, French physicist
John Cunningham Saunders, English surgeon
Xavier Bichat, French pathologist
Franz Joseph Gall, German physiologist
Bernard de Jussieu, French botanist
Johann Zimmermann, Swiss naturalist
Benjamin Stillingfleet, British botanist
James Edward Smith, British botanist
Franz Gall, German physiologist
William Cullen, Scottish physician
Johann Blumenbach, German anthropologist
Francois Quesnay, French economist
Thomas Bewick, English ornithologist
Richard Pulteney, British botanist
William Cuming, Scottish physician
William Pryce, British antiquary
Samuel Pepys, English diarist
Humphrey Davy, British chemist
Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist
Nicholas Hardinge, English civil servant
Hippolyte Taine, French historian
Charles Leigh, English physician
John Wallis, English mathematician
John Evelyn, English author
George Romanes, English naturalist
Thomas Sydenham, English physician
Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch mathematician
Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist
Robert Mylne, Scottish architect
Adam Smith, philosopher and economist
James Neild, British prison reformer
Johann Jacob Hartlieb, German surgeon
James Boswell, Scottish author
William Gifford, British poet and editor
Claude Chappe, French engineer
Bishop Samuel Wilberforce of Oxford
John Hunter, Scottish surgeon
John Lettsome, British entomologist
Meriwether Lewis, US explorer
Joseph Jackson, English typefounder
Alexander Pope, English poet
Lionel Adams, British zoologist
Louis Agassiz, Swiss-US naturalist
Thomas Huxley, British naturalist
Charles Darwin, British naturalist
Martin Luther, German theologian
Claude Nativelle, French pharmacist
Daniel Hanbury, British pharmacologist
Athanasius Kircher, German scholar
Edward Sabine, British astronomer
BAAS meeting, Southampton, 1846
Maori man, profile, 18th century
Philippe Pinel, psychiatrist
George Berkeley, Irish philosopher
Henry Cavendish, British chemist
Charles Coulomb, French physicist
Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist
Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist
Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist and author
Provision of payment for clergy
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Pope selling indulgences, 16th century illustration
Plague Victims of Rome, 19th century illustration
Henry Adams, British zoologist
Moyse Charas, French apothecary
Cartoon on English clergyman Henry Sacheverell
18th Century electricity experiment
Count Rumford, US-British physicist
Charles Marie de La Condamine, French geographer
Scene from Voltaire's 'The History of Jenni' (1774)
William Leybourn, English land surveyor
Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician
Captain James Cook, British explorer
Pierre Fauchard, French dentist
Benjamin Waterhouse, US physician
Jean-Baptiste Bourgery, French anatomist
Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist
Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist
Jean Fernel, French physician
Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist
Alessandro Achillini, Italian philosopher
Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistador
Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer
Voltaire, French author
Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer
Carl Vogt, German naturalist
Emil Rossmassler, German biologist
William Beaumont, US surgeon
Robert Kane, Irish chemist
Alfred Velpeau, French surgical anatomist
Xenocrates, Ancient Greek philosopher
Nicolaus Steno, Danish anatomist
William Tulley, British optics maker
William Camden, English antiquarian
William Oughtred, English mathematician
1788 John Hunter Portrait Surgeon
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
Richard Wiseman, English surgeon
The Desert of Religion
1897 Francis Galton British Eugenics
Wynkyn de Worde, English printer
Samuel Hahnemann, German physician
Constantin Chasseoeuf, French philosopher
David Hume, Scottish philosopher
Eli Whitney, American inventor
Christopher Wren, English architect
Aristotle, Ancient Greek philosopher
Alfred Brehm, German zoologist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher
Carl Merck, German naturalist
Adolf Bastian, German ethnologist
Heinrich Barth, German explorer
Christian Ehrenberg, German naturalist
Carl Ritter, German geographer
Bernhard von Gudden, German anatomist
Ernst von Dechen, German geologist
Friedrich von Frerichs, German optician
Hermann Kolbe, German chemist
Wilhelm Foerster, German astronomer
Henri Becquerel, French physicist
George Boole, British mathematician
Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher
James Paget, British pathologist
Henry VIII, King of England
1735 Two toed sloth from Albertus Seba
Robert Brown, Scottish botanist
Matilda of Flanders, Queen of England
Transit of Venus, 1761
Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist
King Henry VIII, 1736
Sydney Parkinson, Scottish artist
Joseph Banks, British naturalist
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher
John Newman, English theologian
J. Wickersheimer, German chemist
Gaston Plante, French physicist
Henri de Ruolz, French industrial chemist
Martin Frobisher, English explorer
Richard Pynson, English printer
Thomas Browne, English physician
Jacques de Romas, French physicist
18th century hairdressing, 19th century caricature
Thomas Craig, Scottish legal scholar
William Blackstone, British judge
Martin Lichtenstein, German physician
Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-American explorer
Virginia Galileo, Galileo's daughter
Marie Leczinska, Queen of France
Simon Marius, German astronomer
1490 Leonardo Da Vinci colour portrait
1636 Galileo Galilei portrait astronomer