XEE5027952: Frontispice of “” Cista Medica Hafniensis”” by Thomas Bartholin (1616-80) (Bartholinus), 1662 - Private Collection Milan / Bridgeman Images

MPH5030222: Geography map: representation of the coasts of Colombia, made by Dutch cartographer Gerard van Keulen (1678-1726) 1709-1713. Biblioteca Angelica, Rome / Bridgeman Images

MPH5030233: Geography map: representation of the border area between Nicaragua and Costa Rica in Central America, made by Dutch cartographer Gerard van Keulen (1678-1726) 1709-1713. Biblioteca Angelica, Rome / Bridgeman Images

MPH5030254: Geography map: representation of Brazil, made by Dutch cartographer Johannes Blaeu (1598-1673), 17th century. Biblioteca Angelica, Rome / Bridgeman Images

MPH5030268: Geography map: representation of South America from an Atlas by Charles Price, beginning of the 18th century. Biblioteca Angelica, Rome / Bridgeman Images

MPH5030269: Geography map: representation of the main British islands of the Caribbean Sea (Antigua, Barbados, Jamaican, Bermuda, St. Christopher Island or St. Kitts) from an Atlas of Charles Price, beginning of the 18th century. Biblioteca Angelica, Rome / Bridgeman Images

MPH5030339: Geography map: representation of the region of Virginia where the Powhatans Indians lived in North America from an Atlas from the melted workshops by the cartographer Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), 17th century Biblioteca Angelica, Rome / Bridgeman Images

MPH5030346: Geography map: representation of Venezuela in South America from an Atlas made by cartographer Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), approximately 1630 Biblioteca Angelica, Rome / Bridgeman Images

MPH5030358: Geography map: representation of Guyana in the Amazon in South America from an Atlas made by cartographer Willem Janszoon Blaeu (1571-1638), approximately 1630. Biblioteca Angelica, Rome / Bridgeman Images

MPH5030378: Navigation: representation of a sailboat going downwind. Plate from an atlas by Pierre Mortier (1661-1711), beginning of the 18th century. Biblioteca Angelica de Rome / Bridgeman Images

MPH5030459: Geography map: representation of Peru's South American coast from an Atlas made by Italian cartographer Antonio Francesco Lucini (born 1605), 1661 approximately Biblioteca Angelica, Rome / Bridgeman Images

XEE5030491: Portrait of Ferdinand de Lesseps (1805-1894) French diplomat and administrator, Drawing of Chartran in 1885 / Bridgeman Images

XEE5030503: Portrait of Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) German chemist / Bridgeman Images

XEE5030507: Portrait of Baron Justus von Liebig (1803-1873) German chemist - Engraving of the 19th century / Bridgeman Images

XEE5030534: Portrait of Fedor Petrovich Litke (1797-1882) navigator and geographer, explorer of Arctic / Bridgeman Images

XEE5030550: Portrait of Giovanni Maria Lancisi (1654-1720) Italian doctor / Bridgeman Images

XEE5030566: Portrait of Alphonse Laveran (1845-1922) French military doctor and bacteriologist - Nobel Prize in Medicine 1907 / Bridgeman Images

XEE5030590: Portrait of Joseph de Montgolfier (1740-1810) French industrial and inventor / Bridgeman Images

XEE5028306: Bessemer Steel Furnace, by Henri Bessemer, 1855 / Bridgeman Images

XEE5028335: Portrait of Buffon (1707 - 1788), French naturalist and writer - Engraving of the 19th century / Bridgeman Images

MPH5028366: Musee Ulisse Aldrovandi, cabinet of curiosites with displays and reptiles on the walls. Palazzo Poggi, Bologna. / Bridgeman Images

XEE5028372: Portrait of Leopold von Buch (1774-1853) German Geologist / Bridgeman Images

XEE5028438: Portrait of Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri (1598-1647), Italian Jesuite and mathematician / Bridgeman Images

MPH5028451: Detail of a fresco of the room of Diane (Artemis) and Acteon by Francesco Mazzola called Le Parmesan (1503-1540) (Parmigianino) for Paola Gonzaga and Galeazzo Sanvitale. It represents a nymph playing horn as well as cherubins and “putti”. Acteon is a deer by Diane. Rocca San Vitale, Fontanellato (near Parma)., Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola) (1503-40) / Bridgeman Images

MPH5028477: Representation of a monster, half man, half horse. He has palm fingers. It's a kind of centaur. Plate 57 of a manuscript of Natural History by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) on monsters, Ulisse Aldrovandi fonds, University Bibl., ed. 1603. / Bridgeman Images

MPH5028483: Representation of a snake or dragon wing. Plate 70 of a manuscript of Natural History by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) on monsters, Ulisse Aldrovandi fonds, University Bibl., ed. 1603. / Bridgeman Images

MPH5028488: Representation of two unicorns (unicorns). Plate 49 of a manuscript of Natural History by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) on monsters, Ulisse Aldrovandi fonds, University Bibl., ed. 1603. / Bridgeman Images

MPH5028530: Nice town. Illustrated chart of a manuscript of Natural History by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) on animals, Ulisse Aldrovandi fonds, University Bibl., ed. 1603. / Bridgeman Images

MPH5028531: The black-beaked psittacus. Illustrated chart of a manuscript of Natural History by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) on animals, Ulisse Aldrovandi fonds, University Bibl., ed. 1603. / Bridgeman Images

MPH5028639: Representation of an India hawk. Illustrated chart of a manuscript of Natural History by Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) on birds, Ulisse Aldrovandi fonds, University Library of Bologna, ed. 1603. / Bridgeman Images

XEE5030615: Portrait of Ernst Mach (1838-1916) Austrian physicist and philosopher / Bridgeman Images

LAL5197025: Illustration for King Solomon’s Mines (gouache on paper), Doughty, C.L. (1913-85) / Bridgeman Images

LAL5197033: Samuel Langhorne Clemens, Mark Twain (gouache on paper), English School, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

LAL5197043: Ten thousand mile motor race (gouache on paper), Tacconi, Ferdinando (1922-2006) / Bridgeman Images

LAL5197045: Ten thousand mile motor race (gouache on paper), Tacconi, Ferdinando (1922-2006) / Bridgeman Images

LAL5197051: Ten thousand mile motor race (gouache on paper), Tacconi, Ferdinando (1922-2006) / Bridgeman Images