Bamboo paper manufacturing in China, 3rd century BC
Hercules and the Cercopes, 5th century BC sculpture
Socrates, Ancient Greek philosopher
Archimedes' principle of hydrostatics
Lysias, Ancient Greek orator
Thucydides and Herodotus, Ancient Greek historians
Pythagoras, Ancient Greek mathematician
Sappho, Ancient Greek poet
Greek fire being used in a naval battle, illustration
Fuel for Greek fire being mined, illustration
Corrosion of metallic padlock, illustration
Roman engineering methods, 18th-century illustration
Alessandro Farnese, 3rd Duke of Parma
Batteries connected in series
Haematite minerals, 1804
Corundum mineral, 1804
Archilochus of Paros, Ancient Greek poet
Cybele, mother goddess
Odysseus and the cyclops Polyphemus, 19th century
Candle-making, 19th century
Hannibal mounted on a war elephant, 218 BC
Niagara Falls in winter, 19th century
Aristotle, Ancient Greek philosopher
Marie Leczinska, Queen of France
Stomachion puzzle
Irrigation system in Egypt, 19th century
Babylonian astronomers
Car engine and magneto, illustration
Harvesting of flax, 19th century illustration
Plante accumulator battery, 1859
Chaldean astronomers
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, illustration
Diving bells, 19th century
Witchcraft treatise, 15th century
Heaven and hell, 15th century
Seven deadly sins, 15th century
Caesarean section, 15th century
Tesla induction motor, 1888
Frederick Beechey, British geographer
King James I of England
Tonga tribal chief, 19th century
Lloque Yupanqui, Inca emperor
Fossil head reconstruction, 19th century
Manco Capac, Inca emperor
Royal tonsure ceremony in Siam, 19th century
Mina woman from Brazil, 19th century
Erasmus of Rotterdam, Dutch theologian
Infirmary of the Hospital of Charity, 17th century
18th century hairdressing, 19th century caricature
Observations of Mars, 1840s
Observations of Mars and Jupiter, 1840s
Edith of Wessex, Queen of England, 11th century
William the Conqueror, King of England
Matilda of Flanders, Queen of England
'Jerusalem Delivered', 19th-century illustration
Representation of Mercury in the zodiac, 19th century
Representation of Jupiter in the zodiac, 19th century
Surface of Mars, 19th century
Surface of Venus, 19th century
Inhabitants of Venus, 19th century
Herve Mangon, French engineer and politician
Henry II, King of England
Richard I, King of England
Gold mining, 19th century
Lake Baikal, 19th century
Storm on the Qiantang River, 19th century
Tidal bore on the River Seine, 19th century
Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist, engineer and scientist
Pope Benedictus XIV
Charles Marie de La Condamine, French geographer
Scene from 'Madame Favart' operetta (1878)
Scene from Voltaire's 'The History of Jenni' (1774)
Scene from Voltaire's play 'Irene' (1778)
Human skeleton with hourglass, 17th century
William Hunter on the anatomy of human pregnancy, 1774
William Hunter on abortions, 1774
Count Rumford, US-British physicist
Aldus Manutius, Italian publisher
Micmac boy from Cape Breton, 19th century
Tallow production, 19th century
Sale of slaves in the USA, 1860s
Perceptions of beauty, 19th century
Torquato Tasso, Italian poet
Greeting French ladies, 19th-century illustration
Red Sea expedition, 19th-century science fiction
Nubian desert tribe, 19th-century science fiction
Lunar explorers, 19th-century science fiction
Mounted quadrant, 17th century
Experiments on oxygen by Scheele, 18th century
Experiments on oxygen by Priestley, 18th century
Jean-Antoine Nollet, French physicist
Jacques de Romas, French physicist
Prehistoric fishermen, 19thC illustration
Emile Zola, French novelist
Fernando Po island, 19th C illustration
Greenwich Hospital, 19th C illustration
Equinox tide, 19th Century illustration
19th Century Havana, Cuba, illustration
Statue by Praxiteles, 17th century
Theatrum Machinarum Novum, frontispiece
Hanging gardens of Babylon, artwork
Propylaea of the Acropolis, illustration
Centaurs, 19th Century illustration
Hypochlorous acid disinfectant molecule
Sodium hydroxide molecule, illustration
Egyptian sex rituals, 5th century BC
The Abbess and the Dance of Death, 17th century
Doctor and Death, 17th century
Aristophanes, ancient Greek playwright
Xenocrates, Ancient Greek philosopher
Monkey skeleton, 18th century
Robert I of Normandy and his mistress, 11th century
Doll factory, 19th century
Flying horse tale from The Arabian Nights, 18th century
Guardian angel, 19th century
South American freshwater fish, 19th century
Swimming with sharks, 19th century
Sun and clouds, historical artwork
Sphinx and Pyramid of Giza, Egypt, 19th Century illustration
Jaffa, Palestine, 19th Century illustration
Acetylene production, 19th century
Balloon engine and magneto, illustration
Surgical tools, 19th-century Japan
Drawing profiles, 19th century
Drawing noses, 19th century
Drawing faces, 19th century
Tuberculosis in the USA, 1874
Changing orientation of Saturn's rings, 19th century
Sodium hydroxide production
19th Century hemp farming, illustration
Embossed velvet weaving machine, 19th century
Textile dyeing machine, 19th century
Textile industry, 19th century
Wool carding machine, 19th century
Charles Thomas Jackson testing ether, illustration
Prehistoric flood, 19th Century illustration
Heinz lead-acid battery, 19th century
Harvesting palm trees in Bolivia, 19th century
Pikaia swimming in a Cambrian sea, illustration
Graptolites from the Silurian, illustration
Semionotus fish, illustration
Electromagnetic needle effect, 1820
North Pole in spring, 19th C illustration
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Patagonian dancers, 19th century
Sir Thomas Gresham, British financier
Circassian emir from Syria, 19th century
Street in China, 19th century
Mykonos women, 18th century
Milos women, 18th century
William Oughtred, English mathematician
Representation of Venus in the zodiac, 19th century
Representation of Mars in the zodiac, 19th century
Prebischtor sandstone arch, 19th century
Foetal skeletons diorama, 17th century
Alchemist reading, 19th century
Storming of the Bastille, 19th-century illustration
Surveying in Sudan, 19th-century science fiction
Solar reflectors, 19th-century science fiction
Sudan explorers, 19th-century science fiction
Nubians praying to the Moon, 19th-century science fiction