1566 Guillame Rondelet Portrait naturalis
1650's Portrait Pierre Belon Naturalist
Andreas Vesalius, Dutch anatomist
Konrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist
Thomas Say, American naturalist
Martin Luther, German theologian
Pietro Pomponazzi, Italian philosopher
Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician
Alessandro Piccolomini, Italian humanist
1532 A war machine in the form of a horse
Guillaume Philandrier, French humanist
Cornelius Valerius, Dutch humanist
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
William Carpenter, British naturalist
Thomas Bell, British zoologist
Richard Lydekker, British naturalist
Joseph Fayrer, British physician
David Starr Jordan, US ichthyologist
1846 Richard Owen and Moa leg fossil
1878 Sir Richard Owen photograph portrait
John Colet, English humanist
Rhubarb cultivation, 16th century
Girolamo Savonarola, Italian priest
European in the Americas, 16th century
Gerard Blasius, Dutch anatomist
Study of a head and horsemen
Johannes Stabius, Austrian cartographer
Janos Zsamboky, Hungarian humanist
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
John Knox, Scottish theologian
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Marcantonio Raimondi, Italian printer
Title page of Politiae literariae, 1540
Joshua Brookes, English anatomist
Richard Edmond Grant, Scottish physician
NHM Zoology Department staff, 1895
James Chester Bradley, US entomologist
Mythical hybrid creature, 16th century
Caribbean millet brew, 16th century
Pineapple, 16th century
South American tree, 16th century
Cassava plant, 16th century
Mythical water creature, 16th century
African herbal tree, 16th century
Father of Albrecht Durer.
Isaac Lea, US conchologist
Leclerc de Buffon, French naturalist
John Knox, Scottish reformation clergyman
Durer's, St Jerome in his study.
Alexander Wilson, ornithologist
Thomas Huxley, British naturalist
William I, Prince of Orange
Joachim Camerarius, German scholar
Albert von Kolliker, Swiss zoologist
Sir Richard Owen, British palaeontologist
Bernard Abattia, French astrologer
Historical illustration of distillation
Aldus Manutius, Italian printer
Christophe Plantin, French printer
1766 Moses Harris Aurelian gold chrysalis
1775 Moses Harris Aurelian Eyed Hawk Moth
1766 Elephant Hawk Moth Harris Aurelian
Thomas Nuttall, English botanist
Nicolas Fabri de Peiresc, astronomer
Melampulach, Arab physician
Bartolus of Sassoferrato, Italian lawyer
The Dance of Death, 16th century
1840 William Swainson naturalist portrait
Kircher's museum in Rome, 17th century
Gerardus Mercator, Dutch cartographer
E. Trewavas, British ichthyologist
Joseph Leidy, American paleontologist
Toucan, 16th century
Sir Richard Owen, museum statue
John Colet, English humanist theologian
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli, Italian humanist
Simon Grynaeus, German theologian
Ignatius of Loyola, founder of Jesuits
Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist
Petrus Bertius, Flemish cartographer
Ambergris origin theory, 16th century
Paul Broca, French anatomist
George Simpson, US palaeontologist
Charles Darwin, British naturalist
Thomas Nuttall, British naturalist
Adam Sedgwick, British zoologist
Engraving of Lorenz Oken, German biologist
Egyptian obelisks, 16th century
Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist
Henry Walter Bates, British naturalist
Louis Agassiz, Swiss-US geologist
King Henry VIII of England
Ismail I, Shah of Persia
Pietro Bembo, Italian scholar
Abyssinian priest, historical artwork
Martyrdom of John Hooper, 1555
South American cannibals, 16th century
Horse's skull, 16th century
Horse's hoof, 16th century
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1516)
Thomas More's 'Utopia' (1518)
Albrecht Durer's Nemesis.
Albrecht Durer's Sea Monster engraving
Durer's 'Whore of Babylon' engraving.
John Hunter, surgeon and anatomist
Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist
Dioscorides, Ancient Greek physician
1598 Spanish Cruelties in the new world
Distillation vessel, historical artwork
Araticum ape, annona montana, artwork
Illustration of a camera obscura
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Leclerc Buffon, French naturalist
Pathology lecture by Virchow
Sir Astley Paston Cooper, English surgeon
Naturalist Georges Cuvier
Arabian horned creature, 16th century
Captive giraffe, 16th century
Rhinoceros and elephant, 16th century
Mythical creature, 16th century
Charles Bell, Scottish surgeon
Sir Thomas More, English statesman
Raphael Blanchard, French parasitologist
Ethiopian animal, 16th century
Georges Cuvier, after an engraving of 1830
Charles D. Walcott, US palaeontologist, and family
William Sollas, British zoologist
Charles D. Walcott with son and daughter at Burgess Shale
Albrecht von Haller
Benjamin Hawkins, British sculptor
Arthur Dendy, British zoologist
Stuart Ridley, British zoologist
Arthur Waters, British zoologist
Alfred Alcock, British naturalist
Richard Owen, British zoologist and palaeontologist
1565 John Knox Scottish Presbyterian
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Richard Bentley, English scholar
Ulrik Huber, Dutch jurist
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
Pietro Giannone, Italian historian
Francois Le Vaillant, French explorer
Carl von Linne
Francis Drake, English explorer
Henry VIII, King of England
Mary I, Queen of England and Ireland
1532 A medieval dive helmet aqualung
1532 A medieval diving suit Vegetalius
Johann von Goethe, German author
Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist
Surveying methods, 16th century
Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer
1871 John Thomas Gulick Portrait biology
Ulisse Aldrovandi, Italian botanist
Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch theologian
Leonhard Thurneisser, German physician
Oronce Fine, French cartographer
Native American chief, 16th century
Miriam Rothschild, British naturalist
Leonardo da Vinci
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
1693 Flying fish Johan Nieuhof
African artefact, 17th century
Erasmus Darwin, English naturalist
Henri Bouley, French veterinarian
The seven works of mercy, 16th century painting
Francis Willoughby, English naturalist
William Harvey, English physician
Captive sloth, 16th century
Niccolo Machiavelli, Italian writer
Distillation glassware historical artwork
Anatomy lesson by Velpeau, 1864
Native American chiefs, 16th century
Leonardo da Vinci on his death bed
Joel Asaph Allen, US ornithologist