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FLO4604631: Argentine cinquefoil anserine - Engraving by Lambert fils, after a drawing by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), from La flore medicale, de Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet, Paris 1830 - Silverweed or silver cinquefoil, Argentina anserina - Engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by P - J - F - Popin from Chaumeton, Iret and Chamberet's “” The Flora Medicale,” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830 - / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604675: Fusee Soyuz FG - Fregat - Venus Express Probe - View of the Soyuz FG - Fregat rocket in the integration building in Baikonour, Kazakhstan, before being transferred to the fire pad. This rocket was launched on 9 November 2005, successfully placing the European Venus Express probe in orbit. The fully integrated Soyuz FG - Fregat vehicle carrying ESA's Venus Express probe, on its erector - transporter wagon in the MIK - 40 assembly and integration building, in Baikonour, Kazakhstan. The vehicle, already fitted with its payload, will then be transferred to launch complex no.31 for four days of pre - launch check out and countdown rehearsals before the flight. The lift - off occurred at 04:33 CET (03:33 UT) on November 9, 2005, and Venus Express was successfully launched on a solar orbit towards Venus / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604727: Soyuz FG - Fregat - 04 - 2005 - View of the Soyuz FG - Fregat rocket during its transfer from the integration building to the Baikonour fire pitch, Kazakhstan, April 13, 2005. This rocket decolished on 15 April 2005, taking a crew of three men aboard the Soyuz TMA capsule to reach the international space station two days later. The Soyuz FG launcher carrying the Soyuz TMA - 6 spacecraft is transferred to launch pad 1/5 at the Baikonour Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, early in the morning of April 13, 2005, two days before its lift - off for the Eneide mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori, from Italy. The Soyuz spacecraft is enclosed in the white protective fairing / Bridgeman Images
FLO4605319: Tattooed man of Halmahera (Gilolo), Maluku Islands (Moluccas), and Berilla, an Edjow Galla, Abyssinia (Caucaso-Ethiopia). Copied from an illustration in Henry Salt's A Voyage to Abyssinia, 1814. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of the Human Species. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4605323: Bout Alikhooki, Tierra del Fuego man drawn from life in European clothes at Plymouth, and Patagonian of Cape Gregory in llama fur coat. Natives of South America. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of the Human Species, Edinburgh, W. H. Lizars, 1848 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4605373: Portrait of Montezuma II (Moctezumaii, 1466-1520), Aztec Emperor of Mexico, in gold crown and gorgette, and of David Cusick (c.1780-c.1831), a Tuscarora Baptist preacher and author, in western clothes. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of the Human Species. / Bridgeman Images
TEC4605405: Pol Bury's spheres (1985) at the Palais Royal in Paris. Pol Bury's two slowly moving horizontal fountains with metal balls were placed in 1985 on the court of Orleans, between the Constitutional Council and the Ministry of Culture. Photography 23/02/05., Bury, Pol (1922-2005) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4604831: Melia azedarach ou lilac de Perse - Engraving by Lambert fils, after a drawing by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), extracted from La flore medicale, de Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet, Paris 1830 - White cedar or chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach - Engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by P - J - F - Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flora Medicale,” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830 - / Bridgeman Images
FLO4604842: Baguenaudier ou arbre a bladder - Engraving by Lambert fils, after a drawing by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), extracted from La flore medicale, by Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet, Paris 1830 - Bladder senna, Colutea arborescens - Engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by P - J - F - Turpin from Chaumett Poiret and Chamberet's “La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830 - / Bridgeman Images
FLO4604850: Balsamier of Mecca or balsam of Judee or white balsamier - Engraving by Lambert fils, after a drawing by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), extracted from La flore medicale, by Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet, Paris 1830 - Balm or balsam of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis - Engraving by Lambert Junior drawing by Lambert from a by P-J-F-Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830 - / Bridgeman Images
TEC4604894: Pont des Arts Pont des Arts, Paris 6th arrondissement, reconstruction in 1981 by Louis Arretche. The Passerelle des Arts, the first iron bridge in Paris, had the mission of joining the Institut de France and the Louvre, which was then called the Palais des Arts. Reserved for pawns, it was built from 1801 to 1804. It initially consisted of nine arches. Following numerous river accidents, its reconstruction was decided in 1981 but two arches were removed to line them up on the Pont Neuf. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604900: Launch of the Dnepr - Dnepr rocket launch - Launch of the Cryosat - 2 satellite on board a Dnepr rocket, 8 April 2010. Successful launch for ESA's CryoSat - 2 ice satellite Europe's first mission dedicated to studying the Earth's ice was launched on April 8 2010 from Kazakhstan. From its polar orbit, CryoSat - 2 will send back data leading to new insights into how ice is responding to climate change and the role it plays in our 'Earth system'. The CryoSat - 2 satellite was launched at 15:57 CEST (13:57 UTC) on a Dnepr rocket provided by the International Space Company Kosmotras from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The signal confirming that it had separated from the launcher came 17 minutes later from the Malindi ground station in Kenya / Bridgeman Images