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Oswald Theodore Avery, Canadian-born American bacteriologist and molecular biologist
 
Atahualpa (d1553), last Inca emperor of Peru, 1686
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, c1930s
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, c1896
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, 1905
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, 1905
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, 1920. Artist: Hermann Struck
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, c1920
 
Francisco Pizarro (c1478-1541), Spanish conquistador
 
Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) English traveller and naturalist
 
Hernando Cortes (Cortez) (1485-1547), Spanish conquistador, attacking natives in Mexico
 
John Couch Adams (1819-92), English astronomer and mathematician, c1846
 
John Couch Adams (1819-92), English astronomer and mathematician, 1881
 
Bernard Abattia, 16th century French astrologer, 1572
 
Temple of Ten Thousand Idols, Japan, 1880
 
Foucault's pendulum in the Pantheon, Paris, 1851 (1887)
 
Foucault's pendulum which demonstrated the Earth's rotation and the concept of inertia, c1895
 
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-1860), French physicist
 
Repeat of Foucault's demonstration of the Earth's rotation, May 1851 (c1890)
 
Demonstrating the Earth's rotation using Foucault's pendulum in a church, 1881
 
A cat in affectionate frame of mind, from The Expression and Emotions in Man and Animals, 1872
 
Pierre-Paul-Francois-Camille Savorgnan de Brazza, French explorer and founder of Brazzaville, 1905
 
View of Earth from Apollo 10 orbiting the Moon, 1969
 
Map of Brazil by Portuguese navigators Pedro Reinel and Lopo Homen, c1525. Artist: Pedro Reinel
 
Part of South America, 1582
 
Marco Polo, Venetian merchant and explorer, 14th century
 
Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen, German physicist, 1901
 
Pierre Belon (1517-1564) French naturalist, 1553
 
George von Bekesy (1899-1972), Hungarian-born American physiologist
 
(Antoine) Henri Becquerel (1852-1908), French physicist
 
(Antoine) Henri Becquerel (1852-1908), French physicist
 
Galileo's observation of the star cluster in Orion and of the Praesepe cluster, 1610
 
Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), Swedish physicist and chemist in his laboratory, 1909
 
Svante Arrhenius (1859-1927), Swedish physicist and chemist, 1903
 
The death of Archimedes at the capture of Syracuse by the Romans, 212 BC (late 19th century)
 
Dispute over who was the first to reach the North Pole, 1909
 
Departure of the Andree balloon expedition to the North Pole, Spitzbergen, 1897
 
Robert Edwin Peary, American naval officer and explorer, 1909
 
Wax models of Peary and Cook, polar explorers, at Madame Tussaud's, London, 1909
 
JJ Thomson, British physicist, at work in the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge
 
JJ Thomson, British physicist, c1896-c1915
 
JJ Thomson, British physicist, c1922
 
Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, c1922
 
Dalton's table of atomic symbols, 1835
 
Charles Kingsley fighting a fire, British writer and cleric
 
Charles Kingsley, British writer and cleric, c1880
 
Diagram showing man's position in the universe, 1617-19. Artist: Robert Fludd
 
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philospher and writer
 
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, German philospher and writer
 
Diagram showing Geocentric system of universe, 1539. Artist: Petrus Apianus
 
Hugo Grotius, Dutch theologian, 1762
 
Hugo Grotius, Dutch theologian
 
Pilgrim Fathers boarding the Mayflower
 
Jacob van Heemskerk, Dutch naval officer and explorer, c1595
 
Asa Gray, American botanist, 1888
 
Asa Gray, American botanist, 1888
 
Samuel de Champlain, French explorer
 
George Frederick Wright, American geologist and cleric, 1892
 
Haeckel's comparision of embryos of Pig, Cow, Rabbit and Man. Artist: Ernst Haeckel
 
Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892), English naturalist and traveller, 1892