William Gifford, British poet and editor
John Nichols, British antiquarian
Walter Scott, Scottish novelist and poet
Zacharey Grey, English priest and author
Joseph Ritson, British antiquarian
Sneyd Davies, English poet
Marguerite Gardiner, Irish writer
Thomas Craig, Scottish legal scholar
The old man at death's gate, illustration
Count Vittorio Alfieri, Italian dramatist and poet
Virgil, Roman poet
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher
Persius, Roman poet
John Thomas Smith, British antiquarian
The chimney sweep
James Boswell, Scottish author
Thomas Rodd, British antiquarian
Thomas Warton, British poet
Daines Barrington, British judge
Homer, Ancient Greek poet
Thomas Sonnet de Courval, French poet
Samuel Pepys, English diarist
Thomas Carlyle, Scottish writer
Matt Ridley, caricature
Cleobulus of Lindos, Greek poet
Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist, illustration
Voltaire, French author
James Neild, British prison reformer
William Pryce, British antiquary
Jules Verne, French novelist
Seneca the Elder, Roman orator
Govert Bidloo, Dutch anatomist
Satire on gluttony, 17th century
Denis Diderot, French encyclopedist
Alfred Tennyson, poet, illustration
Alexander Pope, English poet
Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, German botanist
Scene from Voltaire's 'The History of Jenni' (1774)
Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss theologist
Daniel Defoe in a pillory, artwork
Ernest Daudet
John Evelyn, English author
James Bindley, British antiquarian
Thomas Whitaker, British antiquarian
Humphrey Davy, British chemist
James Edward Smith, British botanist
Captain James Cook, British explorer
Francois Quesnay, French economist
Robert Mylne, Scottish architect
Lord Byron, English poet
Emil Rossmassler, German biologist
John Ives, British antiquarian
John Lettsome, British entomologist
Scene from Voltaire's play 'Irene' (1778)
The flower girl and the undertaker, 19th C illustration
Alfred Brehm, German zoologist
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher
Cicero, Roman philosopher
Sallust, Roman historian
Nicholas Hardinge, English civil servant
Aphra Behn
Xavier Bichat, French pathologist
Franz Joseph Gall, German physiologist
Bernard de Jussieu, French botanist
Johann Zimmermann, Swiss naturalist
Franz Gall, German physiologist
Benjamin Waterhouse, US physician
Johann Blumenbach, German anthropologist
Andre-Marie Ampere, French physicist
Claude Chappe, French engineer
William Wollaston, English theologian
William Stukeley, English antiquarian
William Cullen, Scottish physician
William Gilbert, English physician
George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright
Charles Lyttelton, British antiquarian
Andrew Ducarel, British antiquarian
Charles Townley, British antiquarian
Theophilus Buckeridge, British antiquary
Benjamin Stillingfleet, British botanist
Charles Dickens, English author
Cervantes, Spanish author
Joseph Lister, British surgeon
Jeremy Bentham, British philosopher
Henry Cavendish, British chemist
Daniel Wray, English antiquarian
John Cunningham Saunders, English surgeon
Pierre-Joseph Desault, French anatomist
Adam Smith, philosopher and economist
Johann Jacob Hartlieb, German surgeon
John Hunter, Scottish surgeon
Pierre Andre Latreille, French zoologist
John Arbuthnot, Scottish physician
Technical support, satirical illustration
William Cuming, Scottish physician
Bias of Priene, Greek philosopher
Richard Pulteney, British botanist
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Pittacus of Mytilene, Greek general
Louis Figuier, French science writer
Count Rumford, US-British physicist
Joseph Duchesne, French physician
Philippe Pinel, psychiatrist
Maori man, profile, 18th century
William Blackstone, British judge
Richard Dawkins, British science writer
William Beaumont, US surgeon
Giorgio Vasari, Italian artist and author
Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist
Antoine Lavoisier, French chemist
Meriwether Lewis, US explorer
Joseph Banks, English naturalist
William Penn, English coloniser
William Tulley, British optics maker
Sir John Franklin, British explorer
Etienne Arago, French writer
William Shakespeare, English playwright
William Hunter, Scottish anatomist
Mary Wollstonecraft, English teacher, writer and feminist
Francois Rabelais, French satirist
Roman library, Late Roman Empire
Richard Richardson, English botanist
John Burton, English theologian
Thomas Tanner, English antiquarian
Thomas Birch, English historian
Samuel Pegge, English antiquarian
Pierre Fauchard, French dentist
Thomas Bewick, English ornithologist
Francois de Chateaubriand, French writer
Celsus, Roman encyclopaedist
Hernan Cortes, Spanish conquistador
William Wilberforce, British politician
Charles Coulomb, French physicist
Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist
Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist
1897 Francis Galton British Eugenics
Prince Albert, British Prince Consort
1838 William Smith father of UK Geology
George Boole, British mathematician
James Paget, British pathologist
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Sappho, Ancient Greek poet
1788 John Hunter Portrait Surgeon
James Hutton, British geologist
William Shakespeare, Fine Art Portrait,
John Fothergill, English physician
Joseph Jackson, English typefounder
Emperor Nero at his mother's dissection
Johann von Schiller, German poet, illustration
William Bligh, British naval officer
Joseph Banks, British naturalist
Archilochus of Paros, Ancient Greek poet
Thomas Browne, English physician
Lovely heart
Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian playwright
18th Century electricity experiment
18th century hairdressing, 19th century caricature
Samuel Hahnemann, German physician
William Smith, British geologist
Ernst von Bergmann, German surgeon
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, French lawyer and politician
Constantin Chasseoeuf, French philosopher
Harriet Martineau, British author and sociologist
Albrecht von Haller, Swiss anatomist
Luigi Galvani, Italian anatomist
Shakespeare and friends drinking, 19th century illustration
Aristophanes, ancient Greek playwright
Daniel Hanbury, British pharmacologist
Edward Sabine, British astronomer
Lionel Adams, British zoologist
George Airy, British astronomer
Thomas Huxley, British naturalist
Charles Darwin, British naturalist
Sir James Clark Ross, British explorer
Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer
Carl Vogt, German naturalist
J. Wickersheimer, German chemist
Jean-Baptiste Bourgery, French anatomist
Leonhart Fuchs, German botanist
Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist
Pedanius Dioscorides, Greek physician
Paul Zacchias, Italian physician
Wilhelm Fabry, German surgeon
Jean Fernel, French physician
Alfred Nobel, Swedish chemist