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Radium experiment, 1904. Artist: Poyet
 
Postcard commemorating Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, c1912
 
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician, 1781. Artist: Johann Elias Haid
 
Roald Engelbrecht Gravning Amundsen, Norwegian explorer
 
Flamsteed's equatorially mounted sextant fitted with telescope, 1725
 
Flamsteed's equatorially mounted sextant fitted with telescope, 1725
 
Plate showing diagram of the optics of a reflecting telescope (Fig 29), 1704
 
Isaac Newton's prism experiment showing how sunlight is split into its separate colours, 1747
 
Experiment showing that prismatic colours cannot be split further, 1747
 
Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist, plant geographer and collector
 
Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh journalist and explorer, meeting Emin Pasha at Kavalli, 29 April 1888
 
Earth from space, photographed by spacecraft Apollo 16, April 16 1972
 
Whole Earth from space, viewed from Apollo 17, December 1972
 
Part of Pierre and Marie Curie's laboratory, Paris, 1904. Artist: Anon
 
Victoria Falls, Africa, 1857
 
Electroscope fitted with microscope, 1904. Artist: Anon
 
Work of Marie and Pierre Curie, 1904. Artist: Anon
 
Captain James Cook taking possession of New South Wales in the name of the British Crown, 1770
 
The Last Mile c1880. Artist: Anon
 
Model of the skull of Piltdown Man (Eanothropus dawsoni), 1914. Artist: Dr Smith Woodward
 
Skull of Piltdown Man (Eanothropus daswoni), 1912
 
Captain Cook 19th century. Artist: E Scriven
 
La Perouse 19th century. Artist: Thomas Woolnoth
 
Frontispiece of Galileo's Dialogo dei Massimi Sistemi, 1632. Artist: Stefano della Bella
 
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician, early 17th century. Artist: Francesco Villamena
 
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician recanting, 1633 (1880)
 
Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, 17th century (c1880)
 
Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist, 1877
 
Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist, politician and diplomat, c1880
 
Howard Carter at the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb, Luxor, Egypt, 1922-1923
 
Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer and antiquity seeker, c1860
 
William Buckland, geologist, paleontologist and clergyman, equipped to explore a glacier, 1875
 
Excavating a low-relief carving of the Fish god Dagon, Nineveh, 1853. Artist: N Chevalier
 
Folding of rock strata, 1671
 
Cortez 19th century. Artist: William Holl
 
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician, 1609 (1747). Artist: Jacques Philippe Le Bas
 
Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist, 1820 (c1880)
 
Hipparchus, Ancient Greek astronomer, 2nd century BC (c1880)
 
Map by Bastian Lopez showing Europe, the British Isles and part of Africa, Portuguese, 1558. Artist: Bastiaim Lopez
 
George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, 18th century French naturalist, c1890
 
Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1874
 
HMS Beagle laid ashore, Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia, South America, 1834 (1839)
 
Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, (1666) 1874
 
Plate from Opticks, by Isaac Newton, showing the splitting of light through prisms, 1704
 
Giraffes browsing, c1885
 
Henry the Navigator, Portuguese prince, founder of school of navigation, 15th century
 
French Map of Central and South America, French, 1550
 
Map of Magellan's round the world voyage, 1519-1521
 
Native American Algonquin Indian village, 1585
 
Venezuelans attacking Spanish conquistadors, c16th century. Artist: Hieronyouse Koler
 
Vasco da Gama's fleet at sea, 1497
 
Spanish conquistadors torturing American indians, 1539-1542
 
The Hubble Space Telescope orbiting the Earth, c1990s
 
Earthrise seen from surface of the Moon, Apollo Mission, 1969
 
Wilhelm Roentgen's X-ray photograph of his wife's hand, 1896. Artist: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
 
Victoria Falls, Africa, viewed from the east, 1866
 
A corner of Pierre and Marie Curie's laboratory, Paris, 1904. Artist: Anon
 
Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, c early 20th century
 
Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, c early 20th century
 
Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, c1890-1915