PIX4579175: Total Eclipse of Moon 06 - 07 - 1982 - Total Eclipse of Moon 06 - 07 - 198 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4579207: Cactus Hylocereus, native to the Caribbean - Strawberry pear Hylocereus trigonus (Triangular creeping cereus, Cactus triangularis). Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims' Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4579230: Total Eclipse of Moon - 20 - 01 - 2000 - Total Eclipse of Moon - 20 - 01 - 2000 - beginning, middle and end of totalite / Bridgeman Images

FLO4579243: Jasmine des Acores - Azorian jasmine, Jasminum azoricum. Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims' Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4579269: Galinsoge trilobee - Tridax trilobata (Three-lobed galinsogea, Galinsogea trilobata). Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims' Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4579282: Total Eclipse of Moon - 16 - 07 - 2000 - Total Eclipse of Moon - 16 - 07 - 2000 - beginning, middle and end of totalite / Bridgeman Images

PIX4579293: Total Eclipse of Moon - 16 - 07 - 2000 - Eclipse of Moon - End of Totalite - 16 - 07 - 2000 - Photo of Total Eclipse at End of Totalite / Bridgeman Images

FLO4579304: Buglosse officinale - Common bugloss, Anchusa officinalis (Purple-flowered narrow-leaved bugloss, Anchusa angustifolia). Handcoloured botanical engraving from John Sims' Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4579308: Rhododendron or azalee florists - Evergreen daurian rhododendron, Rhododendron dahuricum sempervirens. Handcoloured botanical engraving by Weddell from John Sims' Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Couchman, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576206: Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, vulnerable 1, smooth hammerhead, Sphyrna zygaena, vulnerable 2, common sawfish, Pristis pristis, critically endangered 3, and swordfish (swordfish), Xiphias gladius 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Johann Christian Wilhelm Waitz from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4576262: Moon: crateres around Stoefler and Maurolycus - Moon: area around Stoefler and Maurolycus - Region around Stoefler and Maurolycus crateres. Mosaic of images obtained on April 3, 2009, a day after the first quarter. Mosaic of images showing the area around Stoefler and Maurolycus craters. April 3, 2009, a day after the first quarter of the moon / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576265: Prickly cockle - bucarde - Acanthocardia echinata (Cardium echinatum) 1, and slender sea pen - plume elegante - Virgularia mirabilis (Pennatula mirabilis) 2. Closed clam A, with foot extended B, fully open showing anatomy C. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576287: Comparison with microscope between the regularite of the yarn of the yarn of the araignee and the inegal weaving of the lace yarns - Observations under the microscope: the regular precision of a spider's cobweb 1, and the irregular needlework of a Belgian lacemaker 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4576294: Moon: the wall of Altai, Piccolomini and Fracastor - Moon: Rupes Altai, Piccolomini and Fracastorius - The wall of Altai is an escarpment of about 1000m high and extends over 400 km. At its bottom end, the Piccolomini crater. Up right in the shadow, the big crater Fracastor. Image obtained on October 1, 2007, 2 days before the last quarter of the Moon. Rupes Altai is an escarpment running more than 400 km long and 1000 m high. Its southeastern end (bottom) is the crater Piccolomini. Top right, the very last sun ray is leaving Fracastorius in the darkness. Image taken on october 1st 2007, two days before the last quarter of the moon / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576342: Observation of ice formations on a window in winter, by Professor Hacquet in Lemberg, during winter 1788-1789 and ice sheets in Belvedere -Ice crystal formations on windows in winter. Observed by Professor Hacquet at Lemberg during the cold winters of 1788-1789, and ice fronds seen in 1740 on windows in Belvedere. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576480: Nilometer on Raudah Island, Cairo, Egypt, with its marble octagonal pillar marked in cubits to measure the water of the Nile. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576508: White satin moth - Willow liparis or Bombyx willow - Leucoma salicis 1, puss moth - Forked tail or vinule or large harpy - Cerura vinula, and hummingbird hawk-moth - moro sphinx, Hummingbird or Sphinx of quail milk - Macroglossum stellatarum 3, moth, larva, caterillar, pupa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576551: Flying machine built by Jacob Degen, a clockmaker from Vienna (the ornithoptere, a flying machine built by Jacob Degen, a kind of helicopter driven by muscular force, he performed several free flights between 1806 and 1813). Degen made his first attempt in his tethered ornithopter in the spring of 1808, aided by a counterweight, and rose to 54 feet. He later added a balloon to his machine and flew several times on November 12 and 15, 1808. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576597: Scarlet tiger moth - red or marbree scale - Callimorpha dominula 1, purple tiger -purple or speckled - Rhyparia purpurpurata 2, buffp-tip moth - bucephale - Phalera bucephala 3, and canary shouldered thorn - enomnos du linden - Ennomos alniaria, with caterpillar and pupa. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4576679: Moon: Apennine Mountains - Moon: Apennine Mountains - The Apennine Mountains are a chain of mountains between the Rain Sea and the Serenite Sea. Some peaks peak at 5000m. At the top of the picture are the Aristotle and Eudox craters; at the other end of the Apennines, the Erathosthene crater, at the bottom left. The large crater in the middle left is the Archimede crater in the Rain Sea. Image obtained on October 12, 2006, on a descending moon, 2 days before the last quarter / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576709: Trajan's column (Trajane column, construction 107-113) Rome, 18th century. Triumphal pillar built by the architect Apollodorus, its spiral bas-relief shows Trajan's victories over the Dacians. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576720: Petrified and fossil leaves found near Rochesauve, southern France, 1807. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576753: Giant cabuya - choca vert or cadere - Furcraea foetida (Fourcroya gigantea), flower A, native to the Caribbean. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576762: Tk's head cactus, Melocactus caroli-linnaei (variety of melocactus). Taken from Candolle and Redoute, “Plantarum Historia Succulentarum.”” Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576795: The Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat, Catalonia, Spain, 1800 (the Benedictine Abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat, Catalonia). Home of the black Madonna sculpture, the Virgin of Montserrat. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576833: Wax palm - ceroxylon alpinum, native to the Andes, endangered. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4576858: Moon: Davy crater and chain of craters - Chain of 23 small craters of impact or volcanic origin Image obtained in November 1969 from the control module of Apollo 12 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576860: Crown of thorns starfish - Acanthaster purple - Acanthaster planci (Asterias echinoides). Based on an example in the Leverian Museum, London. Copied from Shaw and Noder's “The Naturalist's Miscellany,” 1801. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576891: Wheat grain with fungal infection Uredo segetum. Decayed ear of wheat at natural size 1, magnified 2,3 revealing misshapen pistils a and sterile anthers b, infected wheat dust 4, barley rust 5, and healthy wheat flour 6. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576913: Mythical creatures: harpy, griffon, satyre, titan, seahorse and triton - Mythical creatures: harpy, griffin, satyr, giant or Titan, seahorse and Nereid or Triton. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Christiane Henriette Dorothea Westermayr from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4576916: Moon: Mount Rumker in the Ocean of Tempetes - Moon: mons Rumker in Oceanum Procellarum - Image obtained during the Apollo 15 mission, August 1971. Apollo 15 images / Bridgeman Images

PIX4576921: Moon: the Gruithuisen Mountains in the Ocean of Tempetes - Moon: the Gruithuisen domes in Oceanus Procellarum - Image obtained during the Apollo 15 mission, August 1971 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576946: Elecampane - grande aunee - Inula helenium 1, and common soapwort - saponaire officinale - Saponaria officinalis 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4576947: Moon: King crater - Moon: King crater - The King impact crater on the hidden face of the Moon. This crater is about 75 km in diameter and 4 km in depth. Image obtained in April 1972 from the control module of Apollo 16. This vertical view shows the King Crater on the lunar surface. It was exposed with color positive film in a hand - held 70 mm camera onboard the Command and Service Modules during the Apollo 16 mission's 98th orbit of the moon. Center point coordinates are located at 5.4 degrees north latitude and 120.8 degrees east longitude. April 1972 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4576954: Morai or cemetery with carved wooden idols on the island of Nuku Hiva, Marquesas Islands, Polynesia, circa 1800. Tattooed natives show a Russian sailor a tomb, while another attachments white cotton fabric to coconut poles. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's “” Bilderbuch fur Kinder”” (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most famous for his 12-volume encyclopedia for children illustrated with 1,200 engraved plates on natural history, science, costume, mythology, etc., published from 1790-1830. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4576978: Moon: crateres on the hidden face - Leonov crater region. Image obtained in April 1972 from the control module of Apollo 16 / Bridgeman Images