FLO4643045: White-tailed sea eagle, Haliaeetus albicilla (Erne, Aquila albicilla). Handcoloured copperplate engraving of an illustration by William Hayes and his daughter M (Matilda) from Portraits of Rare and Curious Birds from the Menagery of Osterly Park, London: Bulmer, 1794., Hayes, William (1735-1802) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4644541: Pink moss, Rosa muscosa. Handcoloured engraving by James Andrews for John Stevens Henslow's “Bouquet des Souvenirs,” London, 1840. Henslow (1796 ~ 1861) was educated at Cambridge University, and returned to teach there, becoming Chair of Mineralogy in 1822 and Chair of Botany in 1825. His lectures were attended by a young Charles Darwin. James Andrews was a talented botanical artist who squandered his talents on gift books. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644547: Satellite Meteosat in test in Cannes - A first generation Meteosat weather satellite undergoes final checks - View of a first generation Meteosat satellite in an Aerospatiale building in Cannes. A first generation Meteosat weather satellite undergoes final checks at Aerospace's satellite plant in Cannes, on the English Riviera / Bridgeman Images
FLO4644610: Little dragonfish, Eurypegasus draconis, Pegase dragon, and American paddlefish, Polyodon spathula, Polyodon leaf. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Bocour, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4644611: Ocean sunfish, Moon fish or Mole, Mola mola. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Lemaire, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644635: Satellite Orbiting Carbon Observatory - Artist's concept of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory - Artist's view of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) satellite orbiting Earth. This satellite, scheduled to launch in early 2009, will be dedicated exclusively to the study of carbon dioxide on Earth. The mission, scheduled to launch in early 2009, will be the first spacecraft dedicated to studying atmospheric carbon dioxide, the main human - produced driver of climate change. It will provide the first global picture of the human and natural sources of carbon dioxide and the places where this important greenhouse gas is stored. Such information will improve global carbon cycle models as well as forecasts of atmospheric carbon dioxide levels and of how our climate may change in the future / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644636: Satellite MSG - 2 - Meteosat 9 - Artist's view of the European satellite MSG - 2 (Meteosat Second Generation) or Meteosat 9, in orbit around the Earth, seen here in infrared. Launched on 21 December 2005, it is a geostationary satellite set 35 600 km from Earth; dedicated to meteorology, it observes the Earth in visible, and in infrared / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644645: Satellite MSG - 1 - Meteosat 8 - Artist's view of the European satellite MSG - 1 (Meteosat Second Generation, MSG) or Meteosat 8, in orbit around the Earth. Launched on August 28, 2002, it is a geostationary satellite located 35 600 km from Earth; dedicated to meteorology, it observes the Earth in visible, and in infrared. Artist's view of Meteosat Second Generation (MSG). Satellite observations from space contribute to better weather forecasts as only satellites can observe weather patterns on a global scale, including the Atlantic Ocean over which most of Europe's weather originates / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644648: Satellite MSG - 1 - Meteosat 8 - Anaglyph - Satellite MSG - 1 - Meteosat 8 - Anaglyph - Artist's view of the European satellite MSG - 1 (Meteosat Second Generation) or Meteosat 8, in orbit around the Earth. Launched on August 28, 2002, it is a geostationary satellite located 35 600 km from Earth; dedicated to meteorology, it observes the Earth in visible, and in infrared. Meteosat Second Generation (MSG), is equipped with an extremely sophisticated imaging radiometer that can separate the incoming radiation into 12 (3 with the current Meteosat) different spectral bands. Each section, four of them in the visible and eight in the thermal infrared, delivers different information. They vary from visible images of weather systems during the day to cloud temperature at night; from surface temperature and water vapour to trace gas concentrations and dust particles in the atmosphere. MSG will deliver about twenty times as much information as its predecessor Meteosat, resulting in much more accurate short and medium - range forecasts / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644660: Artist's view of the Japanese meteorological satellite GMS - 1 (Himawari - 1). - Artist's view of the Japanese meteorological satellite GMS - 1 (Himawari - 1). - Artist's view of the Japanese meteorological satellite GMS - 1 (Himawari - 1). This satellite was launched in 1977 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4644715: Little filesnake, band acrochord, Acrochordus granulatus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Boquet junior, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4644719: Eastern diamondback rattlesnake, rattlesnake, Crotalus adamanteus. Poisonous snake. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Turcaty, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4644725: Ring-necked spitting cobra, vipere haemachate, Hemachatus haemachatus, and Martinique lancehead, trigonocephale spearhead (spearhead), Bothrops lanceolatus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Madame Massard, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644758: METOP-SG satellite orbits: Artist's view of METOP-SG satellites in orbit around the Earth. European MetOp second generation satellites will form a family of three pairs of meteorological satellites by 2020. Building on the current series of MetOp weather satellites, the family of Metop-second Generation missions will comprise three pairs of satellites to secure essential information for weather forecasting through the decades beyond 2020 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644759: Launch of satellite METOP - A - Launch of satellite METOP - A - Artist's view of the European satellite METOP - A put into orbit by a Soyuz - Fregat rocket. Launched on October 19, 2006, it is the first European meteorological satellite in polar orbit; it includes twelve meteorological instruments. Launch of satellite METOP - A by a Soyuz rocket. MetOp is a series of three meteorological operational polar orbiting satellites, the first of which, MetOp - A is the prototype. The instruments on MetOp will produce high - resolution images, vertical temperature and humidity profiles, and temperatures of the land and ocean surface on a global basis. Also on board the satellites will be instruments for monitoring ozone and wind flow over the oceans. The first launch was on October 19 2006 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644764: THEMIS satellites - View of THEMIS satellites in preparation at Cap Canaveral on 8 February 2007. This constellation of five satellites aims to better understand the origin of the polar aurora; for two years, satellites will align along the tail of the Earth's magnetic field to identify disturbances observed in the magnetosphere / Bridgeman Images
FLO4644811: Ray, raye bordee, Batoidea, (Platyrhina?). Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Dien, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Lvrault. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644817: The mirror of the Hubble space telescope - The mirror of the Hubble space telescope - The 2.4 m mirror inspects before it is installed on the satellite. Inspection of the 94 inch primary mirror for NASA's Hubble Space Telescope at Perkin - Elmers Optical facilities in Wilton, CT / Bridgeman Images
FLO4644820: Torpedo, torpedo has a spot, Torpedo torpedo and marbled electric ray, Torpedo marbree, Torpedo marmorata. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Louviers, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644838: Hubble Satellite Deployment 25 - 04 - 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope deployment April 25 1990 - Seen from the window of the Shuttle Discovery. Grappled by the remote manipulator system end effector of Discovery, the Hubble Space Telescope is held in appendage deploy position. The starboard solar array wing and the two high gain antennae are fully extended. An STS - 31 crewmember took this view through aft flight deck window. The HST is backdropped against the Earth's limb / Bridgeman Images
FLO4644878: Hammerhead, Sphyrna zygaena, Zygene hammer, and smooth hound shark, Mustelus mustelus, Emissole commune. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Talbeau, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644889: Hubble space telescope: 1st maintenance mission 12 - 1993 - Hubble space telescope: first repair mission 12 - 1993 - Astronauts Story Musgrave (right) and Jeffrey Hoffman, on the arm of the shuttle Endeavour, prepare the installation of the new planetary wide field camera (WFPC2); the old camera is visible at the bottom right of the image; third extravehicular exit. Anchored on the end of Endeavour's Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm, Jeffrey Hoffman (foreground) prepares to install the new Wide Field/Planetary Camera (WFPC II) into the empty cavity (top left) on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). WFPC I is seen temporarily stowed at bottom right. Story Musgrave works with a Portable Foot Restraint (PFR) at frame center, as his image is reflected in the shiny surface of the telescope. Hoffman and Musgrave shared chores on three of the five space walks during the STS - 61 mission / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644893: Satellite METOP - A - Artist's view of the European satellite METOP - A in orbit around the Earth. Launch on October 19, 2006, it is the first European meteorological satellite in polar orbit; it includes twelve meteorological instruments. MetOp is a series of three meteorological operational polar orbiting satellites, the first of which, MetOp-1 is the prototype. The instruments on MetOp will produce high - resolution images, vertical temperature and humidity profiles, and temperatures of the land and ocean surface on a global basis. Also on board the satellites will be instruments for monitoring ozone and wind flow over the oceans. The first launch was on October 19 2006 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644915: Hubble Space Telescope: 1st maintenance mission 12 - 1993 - Astronauts install COSTAR during EVA for HST repair - Astronaut Thomas Akers prepares the installation of COSTAR, an instrument intended to correct Hubble's myopia. Kathryn C. Thornton is on the arm of the shuttle Endeavour with the instrument. Fourth extravehicular exit. Astronaut Thomas D. Akers maneuvers inside the bay which will house the Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement (COSTAR) while assisting astronaut Kathryn C. Thornton with the installation of the 640 - pound instrument. Thornton, anchored on the end of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) arm, is partially visible as she prepares to install the COSTAR. Dec 1993 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4644937: Hubble space telescope: 1st maintenance mission 12 - 1993 - The Hubble space telescope first mission repair - The astronaut Story Musgrave is visible at the bottom of this fish-eye photo during the fifth and last extravehicular exit. Behind the space telescope, and Australia. A fisheye lens was used to capture the Hubble Space Telescope (HST), a spherical Earth and Australian landmass with a bit of distortion during the final space walk on the STS - 61 HST - servicing mission. Astronaut F. Story Musgrave can be seen at bottom of the frame. The STS - 61 mission was launched aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on December 2, 1993 / Bridgeman Images
FLO4644947: Longnose butterflyfish, Chetodon vagabond, Chaetodon vagabundus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Prudhon, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4644953: Caribbean moonfish, Brown's Vomer, Selene brownii, and doctorfish, Acanthurus surgical, Acanthur surgeon. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Boquet, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4644993: Jack-knifefish, Equetus lanceolatus, Eques americanus, American knight, and spinecheek anemonefish, Two-spiked premnade, Premnas biaculeatus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Gabriel, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4645001: Squirrelfish, Holocentre sogo, Holocentrus adscensionis, and ruffe, Gremille, perch goujonniere, Gymnocephalus cernuus. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's “” Dictionary of Natural Sciences”” 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Joyeau, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Lévrault. / Bridgeman Images