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Part of South America, 1582. Artist: Unknown
 
Map of Brazil by Portuguese navigators Pedro Reinel and Lopo Homen, c1525.  Artist: Pedro Reinel
 
View of Earth from Apollo 10 orbiting the Moon, 1969. Artist: Unknown
 
Pierre-Paul-Francois-Camille Savorgnan de Brazza, French explorer and founder of Brazzaville, 1905. Artist: Unknown
 
A cat in affectionate frame of mind, from The Expression and Emotions in Man and Animals, 1872. Artist: Unknown
 
Demonstrating the Earth's rotation using Foucault's pendulum in a church, 1881. Artist: Unknown
 
Repeat of Foucault's demonstration of the Earth's rotation, May 1851 (c1890). Artist: Unknown
 
Jean Bernard Leon Foucault (1819-1860), French physicist. Artist: Unknown
 
Foucault's pendulum which demonstrated the Earth's rotation and the concept of inertia, c1895. Artist: Unknown
 
Foucault's pendulum in the Pantheon, Paris, 1851 (1887). Artist: Unknown
 
Temple of Ten Thousand Idols, Japan, 1880. Artist: Unknown
 
Bernard Abattia, 16th century French astrologer, 1572. Artist: Unknown
 
John Couch Adams (1819-92), English astronomer and mathematician, 1881. Artist: Unknown
 
John Couch Adams (1819-92), English astronomer and mathematician, c1846. Artist: Unknown
 
Hernando Cortes (Cortez) (1485-1547), Spanish conquistador, attacking natives in Mexico. Artist: Unknown
 
Henry Walter Bates (1825-1892) English traveller and naturalist. Artist: Unknown
 
Francisco Pizarro (c1478-1541), Spanish conquistador. Artist: Unknown
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, c1920. Artist: Unknown
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, 1920. Artist: Hermann Struck
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, 1905. Artist: Unknown
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, 1905. Artist: Unknown
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, c1896. Artist: Unknown
 
Albert Einstein (1879-1955), German-Swiss mathematician and theoretical physicist, c1930s. Artist: Unknown
 
Atahualpa (d1553), last Inca emperor of Peru, 1686. Artist: Unknown
 
Oswald Theodore Avery, Canadian-born American bacteriologist and molecular biologist. Artist: Unknown
 
Amundsen's airship, the 'Norge', over the North Pole, 1926. Creator: Unknown.
 
Erasmus Darwin, English physician and naturalist, 18th century. Artist: Holl
 
Title page of Opticks by English scientist and mathematician Isaac Newton, 1794. Artist: Unknown
 
Woolsthorpe Manor near Grantham, Lincolnshire, birthplace of Isaac Newton, 1859. Artist: Unknown
 
Title page of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, 1687. Artist: Unknown
 
George-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist, 18th century. Artist: Holl
 
Jean Lamarck, French naturalist. Artist: Unknown
 
'Newton Investigating Light', c1879. Artist: Unknown
 
Giraffe browsing on a tree, 1836. Artist: Unknown
 
Thomas Young (1773-1829), English physicist and Egyptologist. Artist: GH Adcock
 
Thomas Young (1773-1829), English physicist and Egyptologist. Artist: Unknown
 
Hernan Cortes (1485-1547), Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico. Artist: Unknown
 
Christopher Columbus, Genoese explorer, discovering America, 12 May 1492 (1590). Artist: Theodor de Bry
 
Hernan Cortes (1485-1547), Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico. Artist: Unknown
 
Pierre-Paul-Francois-Camille Savorgnan de Brazza, French explorer and founder of Brazzaville, 1882. Artist: Unknown
 
Hernan Cortes meeting the Aztec Emperor Montezuma, 1519. Artist: Unknown
 
David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer of Africa, c1875. Artist: Unknown
 
Christopher Columbus, faced with mutiny on his voyage to America, 1492 (early 20th century). Artist: Unknown
 
Albert Einstein, German-Swiss-American mathematician and physicist, 20th century. Artist: Unknown
 
Opium den in the Chninese quarter of San Francisco, c1870. Artist: Unknown
 
Pilgrim Fathers on their way to church, 1620. Artist: Unknown
 
Brahma receiving an offering, after 18th century. Artist: Unknown
 
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Artist: Unknown
 
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924). Artist: Unknown
 
Washing for gold, California, c1850. Artist: Unknown
 
John Dee, English Alchemist, Geographer and Mathematician, c1590 (18th century). Artist: Unknown
 
Galileo's diagram of the Copernican system of the universe, (1632). Artist: Galileo Galilei
 
Galileo presenting his telescope to the Muses, 1655-56. Artist: Unknown
 
Frontispiece of Denis Diderot Encyclopedie, Paris, 1751-80. Artist: Unknown
 
Bartholemew Diaz (c1455-1500), Portuguese navigator. Artist: Unknown
 
'Man is but a Worm', cartoon from Punch showing evolution from worm to man, 1881. Artist: Unknown
 
Pigeons used by Charles Darwin at Down House, near Beckenham, Kent, England, 1887. Artist: Unknown
 
'The New Photographic Looking Glass', cartoon from Punch, everyday proof of man's origins, 1861. Artist: Unknown
 
Four or the species of finch observed by Darwin on the Galapagos Islands. Artist: Unknown
 
Exploring a subterranean river in the Mammoth Cave, Kentucky, USA, c1870. Artist: Unknown