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Excavating a low-relief carving of the Fish god Dagon, Nineveh, 1853. Artist: N Chevalier
 
Folding of rock strata, 1671. Artist: Unknown
 
'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). Artist: Unknown
 
Hipparchus, Ancient Greek astronomer, 2nd century BC (c1880). Artist: Unknown
 
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. Artist: Unknown
 
Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1874. Artist: Unknown
 
HMS 'Beagle' laid ashore, Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia, South America, 1834 (1839). Artist: Unknown
 
Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, (1666) 1874. Artist: Unknown
 
Plate from Opticks, by Isaac Newton, showing the splitting of light through prisms, 1704. Artist: Unknown
 
Giraffes browsing, c1885. Artist: Unknown
 
Henry the Navigator, Portuguese prince, founder of school of navigation, 15th century. Artist: Unknown.
 
French Map of Central and South America, French, 1550. Artist: Unknown
 
Map of Magellan's round the world voyage, 1519-1521. Artist: Unknown
 
Native American Algonquin Indian village, 1585. Artist: Unknown
 
Venezuelans attacking Spanish conquistadors, c16th century. Artist: Hieronyouse Koler
 
Vasco da Gama's fleet at sea, 1497. Artist: Unknown
 
Spanish conquistadors torturing American indians, 1539-1542. Artist: Unknown
 
The Hubble Space Telescope orbiting the Earth, c1990s. Artist: Unknown
 
Earthrise seen from surface of the Moon, Apollo Mission, 1969. Artist: Unknown
 
Wilhelm Roentgen's X-ray photograph of his wife's hand, 1896. Artist: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
 
Victoria Falls, Africa, viewed from the east, 1866. Artist: Unknown
 
A corner of Pierre and Marie Curie's laboratory, Paris, 1904. Artist: Anon
 
Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, c early 20th century. Artist: Unknown
 
Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, c early 20th century. Artist: Unknown
 
Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, c1890-1915. Artist: Unknown
 
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist, 19th century. Artist: Currier and Ives
 
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist, 1778. Artist: Unknown
 
Reconstruction of a clepsydra (water clock), invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria, c270 BC (1857). Artist: Unknown
 
'Java Man' (Pithecanthropus erectus). Artist: Unknown
 
David Livingstone, 19th century Scottish missionary and African explorer, c1915. Artist: Unknown
 
Death of David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer, 1 May 1873 (1877). Artist: Unknown
 
David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and African explorer, being charged by a lion, c1860. Artist: Unknown
 
David Livingstone, saved from a lion by Mebalwe, a native schoolmaster, 1857. Artist: Unknown
 
David Livingstone discovering Lake Ngami, Botswana, 1 August 1849 (1857). Artist: Unknown
 
Dr Livingstone, I presume?, 10 November 1871 (c1878). Artist: Unknown
 
David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and African explorer, 1849 (c1878). Artist: Unknown
 
James Cook, English navigator, witnessing human sacrifice in Taihiti (Otaheite) c1773 (1815). Artist: Unknown
 
Captain Cook's third Pacific voyage, 1779 (1832). Artist: Unknown
 
'Breaking-up of an Ice-Field', 1877. Artist: Unknown
 
'Autographs of Eminent Persons', 19th century. Artist: Unknown
 
Sir Walter Raleigh, 1860. Artist: J Posselwhite
 
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist, 20th century. Artist: Unknown
 
Christopher Columbus statue, Colón, Panama, 19th century. Artist: Chapuis
 
Sir Walter Raleigh, writer, poet, courtier and explorer, (19th century).Artist: H Robinson
 
Sir Walter Raleigh, writer, poet, courtier and explorer, (19th century). Artist: R Cooper
 
'Leif Ericson Discovering America', (20th century).Artist: Per Krohg
 
Charles Wilkes, American naval officer and explorer, 1872. Artist: Unknown
 
Death of Christopher Columbus, 1506, (1872). Artist: Unknown
 
Christopher Columbus in chains on board the 'Gorda', 1490s, (c1872). Artist: Unknown
 
Christopher Columbus being received by Ferdinand and Isabella at Barcelona, c1490s, (1872). Artist: Unknown
 
'Sir Isaac Newton', 1774. Artist: William Sharp
 
Albert Einstein, German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, c1930s. Artist: Unknown
 
The 'Terra Nova' in McMurdo Sound, Antartica, 1911. Artist: Herbert Ponting
 
The 'Terra Nova' in McMurdo Sound, Antartica, 1911. Artist: Herbert Ponting
 
Ferdinand Magellan, 16th century Portugese navigator, 1868.  Artist: Anon
 
Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. Artist: Unknown
 
Illustration from De la Terre a la Lune by Jules Verne, 1865. Artist: Unknown