Orion Nebula from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Jupiter from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Saturn from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Title page of Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Title page of Huygens's 'Astroscopia Compendiaria' (1684)
Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)
Contents page from Philosophical Transactions, 1667
Page from Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Harriot's 1631 book on algebra
Title page of Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Tycho Brahe' s De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis
Map of the Arctic, 16th century
Title page of Isaac Newton's 'Principia'
Solar surface observed by Janssen, 1890
Contents page from Philosophical Transactions, 1665
Contents page of Philosophical Transactions, 1666
Contents page from Philosophical Transactions, 1666
The Globe of Venus (1728), frontispiece
Tartaglia on ballistics, 16th century
The Anatomy of an Horse (1683)
Anderson's rocket treatise, 17th century
Sunspots observed by Janssen, 1893
The Anatomy of Melancholy (1624)
Comets, 15th century
Wright's theory of the universe, 1750
Tycho Brahe's Astronomical Instruments title page
Early solar eclipse photography, 1851
Central part of the Orion Nebula, 1874
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Galileo's Moon observations, 1610
Astronomical table, 14th century
Title page of Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, 1632
Agostino Ramelli, Italian engineer
Atlas of lunar photographs, 1898
Craters on the lunar surface, 1899
Malleus Maleficarum, 1520 edition
Le Diverse et Artificiose Machine (1588)
Newton's catadioptric telescope, 1672
Map of Breda, 17th century
Pleiades open star cluster, 1888
Sun and sunspots in 1910s, stereoscopic card
Ring Nebula, 1880s
Kircher's book on optics, 1671 edition
Kircher's disc viewer, 17th century
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Tross map gores, 16th century
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1st volume
Title page of Leeuwenhoek's Arcana naturae detecta
Wallis's Operum Mathematicorum, 1657
Operum Mathematicorum, 1656
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
Title page of Galileo's 'Sidereus Nuncius', 1610
Figures from Philosophical Transactions, 1667
Van Leeuwenhoek's 'Dissections and Discoveries', 1696
Africa, 1595 Mercator atlas
Ray system of Tycho lunar crater, 1900
Mona Hagyard with Solar Vector Magnetograph, 1990
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
Starburst galaxy NGC 1313
Vesto Melvin Slipher, American astronomer
Philosophical Transactions, volume 1 (1665-6)
British Isles, 17th century
Fort Swartesluys, 17th century
Map of Taiwan, 17th century
Map of the Maluku Islands, 17th century
Map of Guangdong and Hainan in China, 17th century
Professor Sir Roger Penrose
Trifid Nebula, 1874
Double Cluster, 1893
Full Moon in 1870s, stereoscopic card
Full Moon circa 1899, stereoscopic card
Hevelius's book on comets, 1668
Title page of first edition of Acta eruditorum, 1682
Microcosm and macrocosm, 17th century
Henry Blunt's model of craters on the Moon, 1849
Polishing radio telescope bearing
Telescope, artwork
Early Dutch radio astronomy after Second World War
Sunspots on the Sun, 1881 and 1887
Comet Swift-Tuttle, April 1892
Scutum Star Cloud, 1892
Comet Holmes and Andromeda Galaxy, 1892
Andromeda Galaxy, 1888
Total solar eclipse, 7 August 1869, stereoscopic card
Uranus in 1910s, stereoscopic card
Photoheliograph, 1888
Time Service at US Naval Observatory, 1915
Dark-field micrometer, 19th century
Burnham's micrometer, 19th century
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, British-US astronomer
Alhazen's Book of Optics, title page
Carnot's 1824 treatise on thermodynamics
Orion Nebula, 19th century
Potsdam observatory, Germany
Faraday's notes on Tatum's lectures, 1810
Sperm theories discussed by van Leeuwenhoek, 1699
Dental bacteria observed by van Leeuwenhoek, 1683
Crystals and vinegar eels by van Leeuwenhoek, 1685
Spermatozoa of a dog by van Leeuwenhoek, 1685
Spermatozoa of a rabbit by van Leeuwenhoek, 1685
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Orion Nebula
Orion nebula
Alchemist at work, 19th century
Pillars of Creation in Eagle Nebula, 1995 HST image
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
Otto von Guericke, German engineer
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Denis Papin, French physicist
Magdeburg vacuum experiment, 1650s
Jesuit missions to China, 17th century
Kircher's Tower of Babel, 17th century
Cocoon Nebula, optical image
Biblical astronomer Jonicus, 15th-century manuscript
NGC 6357 nebula, telescope image
Frontispiece of Hypotyposis cometae
Secchi's sunspot observation, 1873
Potosi, Bolivia, 17th Century artwork
17th Century chemist, artwork
17th Century philosopher, artwork
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Ceramic dish by Bernard Palissy
Fort Rammekens, 17th century
Coevorden fortifications, 17th century
Map of Ancient Germany, 17th century
Map of Marquisate and Third District of Brabant
Map of Ukraine, 1600s
Navigational map of the South Atlantic, 1630
Portuguese navigational map of the North Pacific, 1630
Portuguese navigational map of the South Pacific, 1630
Comet Arend-Roland, Belgian stamp commemoration
Joseph Pawsey, Australian radio astronomer
Tatel Telescope under construction, 1958
300-foot Green Bank radio telescope construction, 1961
300-foot Green Bank radio telescope, 1962
Collapsed 300-foot Green Bank radio telescope, 1988
Jansky radio antenna replica
Sunspots on the Sun, 1892
Transit circle observations, 1924
Comet Hale-Bopp
Transit of Mercury
Eclipse camera, 1871
Armagh 10-inch refractor telescope, 1885
Transit circle, Edinburgh Observatory
Hough's printing chronograph, 1870s
Draper's 28-inch telescope, 19th century
A Goldsmith in his Shop, 15th century
Orion Nebula, composite image
Orion Nebula, infrared image
Orion nebula, infrared image
Orion nebula (M42)
Orion Nebula, optical image
Orion Nebula, radio image
A Curious Herbal (1737)
Summa de arithmetica (1494)
Karl Jansky, US radio engineer
First NRAO radio telescopes, 1950s
Photograph of the 18 July 1860 total solar eclipse
Sebastian von Hoerner, German radio astronomer
100-metre Green Bank Telescope
Grote Reber's first radio telescope, 1930s