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Captain Cook's third Pacific voyage, 1779 (1832)
 
James Cook, English navigator, witnessing human sacrifice in Taihiti (Otaheite) c1773 (1815)
 
David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and African explorer, 1849 (c1878)
 
Dr Livingstone, I presume?, 10 November 1871 (c1878)
 
David Livingstone discovering Lake Ngami, Botswana, 1 August 1849 (1857)
 
David Livingstone, saved from a lion by Mebalwe, a native schoolmaster, 1857
 
David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and African explorer, being charged by a lion, c1860
 
Death of David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer, 1 May 1873 (1877)
 
David Livingstone, 19th century Scottish missionary and African explorer, c1915
 
Java Man (Pithecanthropus erectus)
 
Reconstruction of a clepsydra (water clock), invented by Ctesibius of Alexandria, c270 BC (1857)
 
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist, 1778
 
Benjamin Franklin, American statesman, printer and scientist, 19th century. Artist: Currier and Ives
 
Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, c1890-1915
 
Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, c early 20th century
 
Jean-Henri Fabre, French entomologist, c early 20th century
 
A corner of Pierre and Marie Curie's laboratory, Paris, 1904. Artist: Anon
 
Victoria Falls, Africa, viewed from the east, 1866
 
Wilhelm Roentgen's X-ray photograph of his wife's hand, 1896. Artist: Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
 
Earthrise seen from surface of the Moon, Apollo Mission, 1969
 
The Hubble Space Telescope orbiting the Earth, c1990s
 
Spanish conquistadors torturing American indians, 1539-1542
 
Vasco da Gama's fleet at sea, 1497
 
Venezuelans attacking Spanish conquistadors, c16th century. Artist: Hieronyouse Koler
 
Native American Algonquin Indian village, 1585
 
Map of Magellan's round the world voyage, 1519-1521
 
French Map of Central and South America, French, 1550
 
Henry the Navigator, Portuguese prince, founder of school of navigation, 15th century
 
Giraffes browsing, c1885
 
Plate from Opticks, by Isaac Newton, showing the splitting of light through prisms, 1704
 
Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, (1666) 1874
 
HMS Beagle laid ashore, Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia, South America, 1834 (1839)
 
Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1874
 
George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, 18th century French naturalist, c1890
 
Map by Bastian Lopez showing Europe, the British Isles and part of Africa, Portuguese, 1558. Artist: Bastiaim Lopez
 
Hipparchus, Ancient Greek astronomer, 2nd century BC (c1880)
 
Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist, 1820 (c1880)
 
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician, 1609 (1747). Artist: Jacques Philippe Le Bas
 
Cortez 19th century. Artist: William Holl
 
Folding of rock strata, 1671
 
Excavating a low-relief carving of the Fish god Dagon, Nineveh, 1853. Artist: N Chevalier
 
William Buckland, geologist, paleontologist and clergyman, equipped to explore a glacier, 1875
 
Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer and antiquity seeker, c1860
 
Howard Carter at the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb, Luxor, Egypt, 1922-1923
 
Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist, politician and diplomat, c1880
 
Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist, 1877
 
Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, 17th century (c1880)
 
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician recanting, 1633 (1880)
 
Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician, early 17th century. Artist: Francesco Villamena
 
Frontispiece of Galileo's Dialogo dei Massimi Sistemi, 1632. Artist: Stefano della Bella
 
La Perouse 19th century. Artist: Thomas Woolnoth
 
Captain Cook 19th century. Artist: E Scriven
 
Skull of Piltdown Man (Eanothropus daswoni), 1912
 
Model of the skull of Piltdown Man (Eanothropus dawsoni), 1914. Artist: Dr Smith Woodward
 
The Last Mile c1880. Artist: Anon
 
Captain James Cook taking possession of New South Wales in the name of the British Crown, 1770
 
Work of Marie and Pierre Curie, 1904. Artist: Anon
 
Electroscope fitted with microscope, 1904. Artist: Anon
 
Victoria Falls, Africa, 1857
 
Part of Pierre and Marie Curie's laboratory, Paris, 1904. Artist: Anon