Title page of Leeuwenhoek's Arcana naturae detecta
Title page of Isaac Newton's 'Principia'
Tycho Brahe's Astronomical Instruments title page
Harriot's 1631 book on algebra
Title page of Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems, 1632
Tycho Brahe' s De mundi aetherei recentioribus phaenomenis
The Anatomy of an Horse (1683)
William Harvey, English physician
17th Century chemist, artwork
Title page of Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Alchemist at work, 19th century
Title page of first edition of Acta eruditorum, 1682
Page from Kepler's 'Somnium' novel, 1634
Title page of Galileo's 'Sidereus Nuncius', 1610
Discovery of a World in the Moone (1638)
Francis Bacon, English philosopher
Robert Boyle, Irish chemist
Contents page of Philosophical Transactions, 1666
Kircher's disc viewer, 17th century
Gerard Blasius, Dutch anatomist
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1st volume
Nicolas Flamel, French alchemist
Tree wood anatomy by van Leeuwenhoek, 1680
Van Leeuwenhoek's 'Dissections and Discoveries', 1696
Roger Bacon, English natural philosopher
Bacteriology laboratory
Wallis's Operum Mathematicorum, 1657
Charles de l'Ecluse, Flemish botanist
Kircher's book on optics, 1671 edition
Konrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist
Map of Ancient Germany, 17th century
Map of Marquisate and Third District of Brabant
Magdeburg vacuum experiment, 1650s
Title page of Kircher's Ars magna, 1646
17th Century alchemist, artwork
17th-century rock inscription, New Mexico
Ulrik Huber, Dutch jurist
Jesuit missions to China, 17th century
Robert Boyle, Anglo-Irish chemist
Rene Descartes, French mathematician
Operum Mathematicorum, 1656
Map of the Arctic, 16th century
17th Century philosopher, artwork
Historical engraving of a lemming
Map of Alsace, 17th century
Giambattista della Porta Italian polymath
Nicolas Lemery, French pharmacist
Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit scholar
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer
Evangelista Torricelli, Italian physicist
Blaise Pascal, French mathematician
Otto von Guericke, German engineer
Denis Papin, French physicist
Andreas Vesalius, Dutch anatomist
Gaspard Bauhin, Swiss botanist
Nicholas Kratzer, German astronomer
Heinrich Agrippa, German alchemist
17th Century doctor, artwork
John Napier, Scottish mathematician
Figures from Philosophical Transactions, 1667
Portuguese navigational map of the North Pacific, 1630
Portuguese navigational map of the South Pacific, 1630
Stralsund during the Thirty Years' War
Air pressure experiment, 1648
Newton's catadioptric telescope, 1672
Renato Dulbecco, Italian virologist
Potosi, Bolivia, 17th Century artwork
Alchemist at work, 18th century
Microcosm and macrocosm, 17th century
Edmond Halley, English astronomer
Kircher's book on geology, 1678 edition
Papin's steam engine demonstration, 1688
Dental bacteria observed by van Leeuwenhoek, 1683
Avicenna, Persian philosopher
Mylius' Philosophia reformata
Emblems from Mylius' Philosophia reformat
Emblems from Philosophia reformata
Samuel Pufendorf, German jurist
Sperm theories discussed by van Leeuwenhoek, 1699
Mother checking a child's hair for lice, illustraiton
Contents page from Philosophical Transactions, 1666
James Ussher, Irish theologian and cleric
Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist
Sir Walter Raleigh, English explorer
John Locke, English philosopher
Rudolph Snellius, Dutch mathematician
Hugo Grotius, Dutch jurist
Orion Nebula from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Van Leeuwenhoek's microscopy equipment, 1689
Richard Pfeiffer, German bacteriologist
Letter written by Vasco da Gama, 1500s
Everardus Vorstius, Dutch physician
Title page of Huygens's 'Astroscopia Compendiaria' (1684)
Agostino Ramelli, Italian engineer
Hevelius's book on comets, 1668
Crystals and vinegar eels by van Leeuwenhoek, 1685
Spermatozoa of a dog by van Leeuwenhoek, 1685
Spermatozoa of a rabbit by van Leeuwenhoek, 1685
Matricaria plant, 17th century
Microscopic flea anatomy, 17th century
Herman Boerhaave, Dutch physician
Suetonius writing The Twelve Caesars
Map of Breda, 17th century
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist
Selman Waksman, microbiologist
Almroth Wright, British bacteriologist
Scientists in academic dress at Cambridge University, 1898
Map of the world, 17th century
Johannes Kepler's birthplace
Louis Agassiz (1807-73), Swiss-American Biologist and Geologist, Three-Quarter Length Portrait, Engraving
Rudolf Virchow, German pathologist
Adolph Fick, German physician
George Thane, British anatomist
Contents page from Philosophical Transactions, 1667
Kircher's Tower of Babel, 17th century
Seymour Benzer
Stephen Hales, English botanist and physiologist
Solon of Athens, Greek statesman and lawmaker
Title page of Isaac Newton's 'Opticks'
1566 Guillame Rondelet Portrait naturalis
John Mayow FRS.
Eileen Reed, Australian plant pathologist
George Nuttall, US-British bacteriologist
Ruth Tunnicliff, US bacteriologist
Isaac Newton, English physicist
Kenelm Digby, British alchemist
Tross map gores, 16th century
Humanist scholars in debate, 16th century
Jupiter from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Saturn from Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Anderson's rocket treatise, 17th century
The quack, 17th century oil painting
Hans Sloane's nautilus shell
1650's Portrait Pierre Belon Naturalist
Charles Shepard, American microbiologist
Edwin Klebs, German-Swiss pathologist
Captive giraffe, 17th century
Title page of Huygens's 'Systema Saturnium' (1655)
Alexis Carrel, French surgeon
William Welch, US pathologist
Pierre Roux, French bacteriologist
William Taliaferro, US parasitologist
Hideyo Noguchi, Japanese bacteriologist
1620 Henry Saville founder Savilian Chair
Thomas Sydenham, English physician
Robert Koch, German microbiologist and physician
Alchemical tree, Philosophia reformata
Robert Wiedersheim, German anatomist
Charlotte Gower Chapman, American anthropologist
Helen Redfield, American geneticist
Estrella Eleanor Carothers, American zoologist
Global maritime map, 16th century
Frontispiece of Hypotyposis cometae
Illustration of a camera obscura
Magic lantern display, 17th century
Tobacco plant, 17th century artwork
Thomas Dexter Grist Mill, USA
Louis Agassiz (1807-73), Swiss-American Biologist and Geologist, Head and Shoulders Portrait
Pasteur's tomb in crypt of Pasteur Museum, Paris
1683 Copernicus Universe early print
John Flamsteed
Leibniz's work on calculus
Martin Luther, German theologian
Philipp Melanchthon, German theologian
Mary Mandels receiving Research Directors Award, 1962
Henry Isenberg, American microbiologist
Dorothy Osborne, English letter writer
Philip IV of Spain, circa 1628
The sick woman, 17th century painting
Jessie Stickel, US bacteriologist
Philosophical Transactions, volume 1 (1665-6)
British Isles, 17th century