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Isaac Newton, English mathematician, physicist and astronomer. Artist: Unknown
 
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James Cook, English explorer, navigator and hydrographer, 1775-1776. Artist: Nathaniel Dance-Holland
 
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Archimedes in his bath, 1547. Artist: Unknown
 
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Christopher Columbus, Genoese navigator and explorer. Artist: Unknown
 
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Miller Atlas, c1519. Artist: Unknown
 
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Richard Francis Burton, English explorer and orientalist, 1880. Artist: Lock & Whitfield
 
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Richard Francis Burton, English explorer and orientalist, 1882. Artist: Edward Linley Sambourne
 
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Marco Polo, Venetian traveller and merchant meeting Kublai Khan, 13th century. Artist: Unknown
 
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Ernest Rutherford, New Zealand-born physicist and the founder of nuclear physics. Artist: Unknown
 
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James Alfred Van Allen, American physicist, c1960s. Artist: Unknown
 
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David Livingstone navigating the Zambezi, Africa, 1852-1864 (c1878). Artist: Unknown
 
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Radium experiment, 1904. Artist: Poyet
 
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Postcard commemorating Captain Scott's ill-fated expedition to the South Pole, c1912 Artist: Unknown
 
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician, 1781. Artist: Johann Elias Haid
 
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Roald Engelbrecht Gravning Amundsen, Norwegian explorer. Artist: Unknown
 
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Flamsteed's equatorially mounted sextant fitted with telescope, 1725. Artist: Unknown
 
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Flamsteed's equatorially mounted sextant fitted with telescope, 1725. Artist: Unknown
 
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Plate showing diagram of the optics of a reflecting telescope (Fig 29), 1704. Artist: Unknown
 
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Isaac Newton's prism experiment showing how sunlight is split into its separate colours, 1747. Artist: Unknown
 
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Experiment showing that prismatic colours cannot be split further, 1747. Artist: Unknown
 
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Joseph Dalton Hooker, English botanist, plant geographer and collector. Artist: Unknown
 
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Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh journalist and explorer, meeting Emin Pasha at Kavalli, 29 April 1888 Artist: Unknown
 
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Earth from space, photographed by spacecraft Apollo 16, April 16 1972. Artist: Unknown
 
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Whole Earth from space, viewed from Apollo 17, December 1972. Artist: Unknown
 
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Part of Pierre and Marie Curie's laboratory, Paris, 1904. Artist: Anon
 
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Victoria Falls, Africa, 1857. Artist: Unknown
 
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Electroscope fitted with microscope, 1904. Artist: Anon
 
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Work of Marie and Pierre Curie, 1904. Artist: Anon
 
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Captain James Cook taking possession of New South Wales in the name of the British Crown, 1770. Artist: Unknown
 
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'The Last Mile', c1880. Artist: Anon
 
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Model of the skull of Piltdown Man (Eanothropus dawsoni), 1914. Artist: Dr Smith Woodward
 
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Skull of Piltdown Man (Eanothropus daswoni), 1912. Artist: Unknown
 
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'Captain Cook', 19th century. Artist: E Scriven
 
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'La Perouse', 19th century. Artist: Thomas Woolnoth
 
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Frontispiece of Galileo's Dialogo dei Massimi Sistemi, 1632. Artist: Stefano della Bella
 
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Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician, early 17th century. Artist: Francesco Villamena
 
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Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician recanting, 1633 (1880). Artist: Unknown
 
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Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, 17th century (c1880). Artist: Unknown
 
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Heinrich Schliemann, German archaeologist, 1877. Artist: Unknown
 
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Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist, politician and diplomat, c1880. Artist: Unknown
 
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Howard Carter at the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb, Luxor, Egypt, 1922-1923. Artist: Unknown
 
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Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer and antiquity seeker, c1860. Artist: Unknown
 
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William Buckland, geologist, paleontologist and clergyman, equipped to explore a glacier, 1875. Artist: Unknown
 
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Excavating a low-relief carving of the Fish god Dagon, Nineveh, 1853. Artist: N Chevalier
 
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Folding of rock strata, 1671. Artist: Unknown
 
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'Cortez', 19th century. Artist: William Holl
 
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Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and mathematician, 1609 (1747). Artist: Jacques Philippe Le Bas
 
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Hans Christian Oersted, Danish physicist, 1820 (c1880). Artist: Unknown
 
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Hipparchus, Ancient Greek astronomer, 2nd century BC (c1880). Artist: Unknown
 
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Map by Bastian Lopez showing Europe, the British Isles and part of Africa, Portuguese, 1558. Artist: Bastiaim Lopez
 
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George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, 18th century French naturalist, c1890. Artist: Unknown
 
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Charles Darwin, English naturalist, 1874. Artist: Unknown
 
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HMS 'Beagle' laid ashore, Rio Santa Cruz, Patagonia, South America, 1834 (1839). Artist: Unknown
 
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Isaac Newton, English scientist and mathematician, (1666) 1874. Artist: Unknown
 
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Plate from Opticks, by Isaac Newton, showing the splitting of light through prisms, 1704. Artist: Unknown
 
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Giraffes browsing, c1885. Artist: Unknown
 
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Henry the Navigator, Portuguese prince, founder of school of navigation, 15th century. Artist: Unknown.
 
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French Map of Central and South America, French, 1550. Artist: Unknown
 
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Map of Magellan's round the world voyage, 1519-1521. Artist: Unknown
 
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Native American Algonquin Indian village, 1585. Artist: Unknown
 
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