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Reconstruction of a medieval conception of the universe, 19th century?. Artist: Anon
 
Copernican sun-centred (heliocentric) system of the universe, 1708
 
Divine harmony, 1617-1619. Artist: Anon
 
Geocentric universe, 1493
 
Observing a solar eclipse, 1673
 
Part of the lunar surface, 1857. Artist: Anon
 
God creating Eve from Adam's rib, 1508
 
Johann Franz Encke, 19th century German astronomer
 
Telling time at night using a nocturnal, 1539
 
Observation of a spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici drawn by Lord Rosse, 1850. Artist: William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
 
Christopher Scheiner's illustration of his idea of the surface of the sun, 1635
 
Measuring the altitude of the Sun, 1539
 
Music of the Spheres, 1619
 
Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician
 
Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician, c1720 (1794). Artist: A Birrell
 
John Flamsteed, English astronomer and clergyman, 1794. Artist: A Birrell
 
John Flamsteed, English astronomer and clergyman,1712 (1725). Artist: George Vertue
 
James Gregory, 17th century Scottish mathematician and astronomer
 
Paris Observatory, France, 1740
 
John Wilkins, 17th century English cleric and astronomer
 
Jean-Dominique Cassini, Italian-born French astronomer, 1777
 
Astrolabe, Arabian navigational instrument, 11th century
 
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-1868), French physicist, 19th century
 
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944), British astronomer, physicist and mathematician, c1930-c1944
 
Arthur Stanley Eddington (1882-1944), British astronomer and physicist, c1934
 
Geocentric or Earth-centred system of the universe, 1528
 
Artist's impression of the lunar landscape at sunset, 1884
 
Total solar eclipse of 1860 observed from Tarragona, Spain, 1884
 
Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights, curtain form 1839. [1872]. Artist: Rapine
 
Aurora Borealis or Northern Lights observed from northern Norway, 10 October 1868, (1906)
 
Lord Rosse's 72 in/1.8m reflecting telescope, 1849
 
Galileo demonstrating his telescope, Venice, 1609 (1870)
 
Richard Anthony Proctor, English astronomer, mathematician and popular science writer, 1883. Artist: Spy
 
Long focal length refracting telescope, 1728
 
Series of observations of the planet Saturn, 1656
 
Donati's comet of 1858 viewed over St Paul's Cathedral, London, 1884
 
Shower of meteors (Leonids) observed over Greenwich, London, 1866 (1884)
 
Paris Observatory in the time of Louis XIV, 17th century (1870)
 
Title page of A Discourse Concerning a New World & Another Planet by John Wilkins, 1683
 
Flamsteed House in Greenwich Park, London, late 17th century
 
Comet of December 1680 (Kirch), 1681
 
Descartes model of the Universe, 1668
 
Kepler's concept of an attractive force from the Sun - a virtue early 16th century
 
Kepler's illustration to explain his discovery of the elliptical orbit of Mars, 1609
 
Great comet of 1680 (Kirch) as it appeared as it approached the Sun
 
An Allarm to Europe By a Late Prodigious Comet 1680
 
Johannes Hevelius, German astronomer, 1647
 
Urania, the Muse of Astronomy, weighing and comparing systems of the universe, 1651
 
Lucas Gaurico, Italian astronomer, astrologer and mathematician, 16th century. Artist: Theodor de Bry
 
Thomas Wright, English astronomer, scientific instrument maker and teacher, 1793
 
Universal joint invented by Robert Hooke, 1676
 
Johannes Hevelius, German astronomer, 1673
 
Kepler's explanation of the structure of the planetary system, 1619
 
John Frederick William Herschel, English scientist and astronomer, c1870
 
Galileo's drawing of lunar craters, 1611, (c1655)
 
Nevil Maskelyne, English astronomer, 1804
 
Heinrich Wilhelm Mathias Olbers, German astronomer and physician, 1864
 
Andreas Osiander, 16th century German Lutheran theologian, 17th century
 
Geocentric or Earth-centred Universe, c1617
 
The divine harmony of the universe, c1617