FLO4617155: Enchant's nightshade, Circaea lutetiana. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Clours and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4617188: Saffron or autumnal crocus, Crocus officinalis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Clours and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4617219: La succise des pres ou bite du diable - Devil's bit scabious, Succisa pratensis (Scabiosa succisa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Clours and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4617263: Tobacco, Nicotiana tabacum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Clours and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4617353: Creeping sibbaldia, Sibbaldia procumbens. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Clases and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4617370: Mercury - Illustratio / Bridgeman Images

FLO4615844: Amisia sanguiflua moth 1,2, milkweed tiger, Euchaetes egle 3, and Noctua chera moth of Surinam 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's “” Illustrations of Exotic Entomology,”” Bohn, London, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4615848: March - Opportunity - Cratere Victoria 09 - 2006 - March: Victoria crater seen from rover Opportunity - Panorama obtained by the rover Opportunity on 28 and 29 September 2006. The Rover Opportunity landed on Mars in the Meridiani Planum region on January 25, 2004. Opportunity reached the Victoria crater on September 27, 2006 after travelling more than 9 km on the surface of Mars. The Victoria crater is about 800 metres wide and its south face on the left is about 6 metres above ground. This image taken by the panoramic camera on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the view of Victoria Crater from Duck Bay. Opportunity reached Victoria Crater on Sol 951 (September 27, 2006) after traversing 9.28 kilometers (5.77 miles) since her landing site at Eagle Crater. Victoria Crater is roughly 800 meters (one - half mile) wide - - about five times wider than Endurance Crater, and 40 times as wide as Eagle crater. The south face of the 6 meter (20 foot) tall layered Cape Verde promontory can be seen in the left side of the inner crater wall, about 50 meters (about 165 feet) away from the rover at the time of the imaging. The north face of the 15 meter (50 foot) tall stack of layered rocks called Cabo Frio can be seen on the right side of the inner crater wall. This mosaic was taken on Sols 952 and 953 (September 28 and 29, 2006). There are 30 separate pointings through 6 different filters at each pointing / Bridgeman Images

PIX4615862: March - Opportunity - Panorama - 05/2007 - March: D - Star Panorama by Opportunity (False Color) - Panorama in fake colors obtained by the rover Opportunity on 1st May 2007. The Rover Opportunity landed on Mars in the Meridiani Planum region on January 25, 2004. Opportunity reached the Victoria crater (in the background, at the top of the picture) on September 27, 2006 after having travelled more than 9 km on the surface of Mars. On April 29, 2007, the rover tested a new navigation software to optimize its driving. The traces left on Martian soil are visible to the left of the image. The rocks towards the center of the image are 7 to 10 cm high. This view from Opportunity shows the tracks left by a drive executed with more onboard autonomy than has been used on any other drive by a Mars rover. Opportunity made the curving, 15.8 - meter (52 - foot) drive during its 1,160th Martian day, or sol (April 29, 2007). It was testing a navigational capability called “Field D - star,””” which enables the rover to plan optimal long - range drives around any obstacles in order to travel the most direct safe route to the drive's designated destination. Opportunity and its twin, Spirit, did not have this capability until the third year after their January 2004 landings on Mars. Earlier, they could recognize hazards when they approached them closely, then back away and try another angle, but could not always find a safe route away from hazards. Field D - Star and several other upgrades were part of new onboard software uploaded from Earth in 2006. The Sol 1,160 drive by Opportunity was a Martian field test of Field D - Star and also used several other features of autonomy, including visual odometry to track the rover's actual position after each segment of the drive, avoidance of designated keep - out zones, and combining information from two sets of stereo images to consider a wide swath of terrain in analyzing the route. Two days later, on Sol 1,162, (May 1, 2007), Opp / Bridgeman Images

LRI4615865: Thing (Mixed Technique , 20th century), Kosuth, Joseph (b.1945) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4615876: Letis hercyna of Jamaica, Erebus hercyna 1,2, buck moth Hemileuca maia Saturnia maia 3, and Zale lunata edusa, Erebus edusa 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O. Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's “” Illustrations of Exotic Entomology,”” Bohn, London, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4615891: March: Albor Tholus volcano summit seen in perspective. - This volcano in the region of Elysium has a diameter of 160 km and stands at 4500m. Its caldera seen here measures 30 km in diameter and a depth of 3000m. Image obtained by the Mars Express probe on January 19, 2004 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4615905: March: Olympus Mons Volcano Summit - This volcano has a diameter of 600 km and rises to 27 km. Its caldera view here has a depth of 3000m. Image obtained by the Mars Express probe at an altitude of 273 km on January 21, 2004 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4616076: March: Hebes Chasma - Hebes Chasma is a basin of almost 8000 m deep located in the northern part of Valles Marineris, the great Martian canyon. At the centre of this depression is a stratified plateau that constitutes sedimentary deposits. Perspective image obtained by the Mars Express probe in 2005. Perspective view of Hebes Chasma obtained by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. Hebes Chasma is an enclosed trough, almost 8000 m deep, in Valles Marineris, the Grand Canyon of Mars, where water is believed to have flowed. Hebes Chasma is located at approximately 1* south and 282* east. The HRSC obtained image data on 16 September 2005 with a ground resolution of approximately 15 m/pixel / Bridgeman Images

PIX4616128: March: Echus Chasma - Mars: Echus Chasma - Echus Chasma is a valley located north of Valles Marineris. It is about 100 km long and 10 km wide. Detail obtained by the Mars Express probe in September 2005. The High - Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express has returned images of Etus Chasma, one of the largest water source regions on the Red Planet. Echus Chasma is the source region of Kasei Valles which extends 3000 km to the north. The data was acquired on 25 September 2005. The pictures are centred at about 1* north and 278* east and have a ground resolution of approximately 17 m/pixel / Bridgeman Images

FLO4616164: Description of the satan bolet (venenous mushroom). Chromolithography in Atlas of edible and venenous mushrooms, 1891, by Leon Marie Dufour (1862-1942), French mycologist. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4616168: Mars: craters and channels in Hephaestus Fossae - Mars: craters and channels in Hephaestus Fossae - Impact crateres and channel system in Hephaestus Fossae, a region on Mars located on the western flank of Elysium Mons. Close-up of a large impact crater measuring 20 km in diameter. The image was obtained by the Mars Express probe on December 28, 2007. This image of Hephaestus Fossae was obtained by Esa's Mars Express orbiter on 28 December 2007. The region is dotted with craters and channel systems and lies at about 21* North and 126* East on the Red Planet. Named after the Greek god of fire, Hephaestus Fossae extends for more than 600 km on the western flank of Elysium Mons in the Utopia Planitia region. The image shows a large impact crater measuring 20 km in diameter. It shows a blanket of ejecta with flow forms surrounding the rim / Bridgeman Images

LBY4616201: Rue du Paradis in Paris 10th. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4616208: Painting (oil on canvas, 1915), Magnelli, Alberto (1888-1971) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4617467: Nebula NGC 281 in Cassiope / Bridgeman Images

PIX4617483: Nebula NGC 281 in Cassiopee - Nebula NGC 281 in Cassiopeia - NGC 281 is a star-forming region about 10,000 light years away from Earth in the constellation Cassiopee. At the center of this nebula is the cluster of stars IC 1590 whose stars are only a few million years old. A composite of X-ray images obtained by the Chandra Space Telescope in purple and infrared by Spitzer in red green and blue. High - mass stars are important because they are responsible for much of the energy pumped into our galaxy over its lifetime. Unfortunately, these stars are poorly understood because they are often found relatively far away and can be obscured by gas and dust. The star cluster NGC 281 is an exception to this rule. It is located about 6,500 light years from Earth and, remarkably, almost 1,000 light years above the plane of the galaxy, giving astronomers a nearly unfettered view of the star formation within IT.This composite image of NGC 281 contains X - ray data from Chandra, in purple, with infrared observations from Spitzer, in red, green, blue. The high - mass stars in NGC 281 drive many aspects of their galactic environment through powerful winds flowing from their surfaces and intense radiation that creates charged particles by stripping electrons off atoms. The eventual deaths of massive stars as supernovas will also seed the galaxy with material and energy. NGC 281 is known informally as the “” Pacman Nebula”” because of its appearance in optical images. In optical images the “” mouth”” of the Pacman character appears dark because of obscuration by dust and gas, but in the infrared Spitzer image the dust in this region glows brightly. NGC 281 is typically divided into two subregions: the region in the upper middle of the image, which is surrounded by the purple 10 - million - degree gas, and a younger region in the lower part of the image. There is evidence that the formation of a cluster, appearing in a beige cl / Bridgeman Images

TEC4617507: Nouvelle Athenes, Rue de la Tour des Dames, Paris 9th. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4617526: Nebula NGC 1333 in Persee infrared view - NGC 1333 star - forming region seen in infrared. - NGC 1333 is a nebula located between 700 and 1000 years - light of the Earth. It's a reflexion nebula and a star-forming region. Viewed here in infrared by the Spitzer space telescope, young stars become visible. Jets of matter, in yellow - green, emerge from extremely young embryonic stars. Located between 700 and 1000 light - years from Earth in the constellation Perseus, the reflection nebula called NGC 1333 is seen here in infrared pictured by the Spitzer Space Telescope. The young stars in NGC 1333 do not form a single cluster, but are split between two sub-groups. One group is to the north near the nebula, dominated by the infrared light from warm dust shown as red in the image. The other group is south, where the features shown in yellow and green abound in the densest part of the natal gas cloud. The knotty yellow - green features are glowing shock fronts where jets of material, spewed from extremely young embryonic stars, are plowing into the cold, dense gas nearby / Bridgeman Images

FLO4617532: Single-flowered wintergreen, Moneses uniflora (Pyrola uniflora). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Clours and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4617651: Orion Nebula (M42 - 43) in visible and infrared - Orion Nebula (M42 - 43) in visible and infrared - Orion Nebula is a star-forming region situated about 1500 years away - light from Earth. Composite image in visible and infrared obtained by the Hubble space telescope with the ACS camera between 2004 and 2005 and by the Spitzer telescope in 2004 / Bridgeman Images

LRI4617684: The pause that refreshes (Watercolour, 1978), Ramos, Mel (b.1935) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4617694: Cast, 1960 (Watercolour on cardboard), Raysse, Martial (b.1936) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4617709: La cupola du department store Le Printemps, 64-70 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris 9e. In 1910, Rene Binet (1866-1911) built a second store, taking over the architectural part of Paul Sedille (1836-1900), while centering the ensemble on a six-storey octagonal hall under a double dome. The dome of Rene Binet, the work of the master glassmaker Briere, is still visible on the sixth floor of the store. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4617791: Orion Nebula - M42 - M43 - The Great Nebula in Orion - Located 1500 years - light, the Orion Nebula is the closest region to the formation of stars of the Sun. Image obtained from the 2.2 meter MPG/ESO telescope of the La Silla Observatory. The Orion Nebula is the greatest of all HII clouds visible from our location within the Milky Way. With a gaseous repository of 10,000 suns, and illuminated by a cluster of hot young stars, the clouds of M42 glow with fantastic colors and shapes, giving us a birds eye view of one of the greatest star forming nurseries in our part of the galaxy. At a distance of 1500 light years, the Orion nebula is the nearest star - forming region to the Sun. This new image of the Orion Nebula was captured using the Wide Field Imager camera on the MPG/ESO 2.2 - metre telescope at the La Silla Observatory, Chile. This image is a composite of several exposures taken through a total of five different filters. Light that passed through a red filter, as well as light from a filter that shows the glowing hydrogen gas, is colored red. Light in the yellow - green part of the spectrum is colored green, blue light is colored blue and light that passed through an ultraviolet filter has been colored purple. The exposure times were about 52 minutes through each filter / Bridgeman Images

TEC4617806: Office building, ex Caisse centrale de reassurance, 37 rue de la Victoire, Paris 9e. Construction 1958, architect Jean Balladur. Currently, this building houses offices owned by the insurance company AXA. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4617829: Hooded pitcher plant, Sarracenia minor (Side-saddle flower, Sarracenia adunca). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Clours and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4617837: Field larkspur, Consolida regalis (Delphinium consolida). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Clours and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4617484: Common barberry, Berberis vulgaris. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Clours and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London, 1816. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4617489: Ilot de la Tour, Paris 9th. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4617509: Nebula NGC 604 in the galaxy M33 - NGC 604 star forming nebula - NGC 604, is a very large star-forming region located in the galaxy M33 of the Triangle. This image is a composite of X-ray images (blue) obtained by the Chandra Space Telescope and visible (green and red) by the Hubble Space Telescope. The study of very hot gas observed in X-ray allows us to better understand the star formation activity within this nebula. NGC 604, is one of the largest known seething cauldrons of star birth in a nearby galaxy. NGC 604 is similar to familiar star - birth regions in our Milky Way galaxy, such as the Orion Nebula, but it is vastly larger in extent and contains many more recently formed stars. This monstrous star - birth region contains more than 200 brilliant blue stars within a cloud of glowing gases some 1,300 light - years across, nearly 100 times the size of the Orion Nebula. The bright stars in NGC 604 are extremely young having formed a mere 3 million years ago. The most massive stars in NGC 604 exceed 120 times the mass of our Sun, and their surface temperatures are as hot as 72,000 degrees Fahrenheit (40,000 Kelvin). Ultraviolet radiation floods out from these hot stars, making the surrounding nebular gas fluoresce. NGC 604 lies in a spiral arm of the nearby galaxy M33, located about 2.7 million light - years away in the direction of the constellation Triangulum. The image is a composite of images taken in X - ray (in blue) by Chandra X - Ray observatory and in optical (red and green) by the Hubble space telescope. It shows a divided neighborhood where some 200 hot, young, massive stars reside. Bubbles in the cooler gas and dust have been generated by powerful stellar winds, which are then filled with hot, X - ray emitting gas. Scientists find the amount of hot gas detected in the bubbles on the right side corresponds to the amount entirely powered by winds from the 200 hot massive stars. The situation is different on th / Bridgeman Images

TEC4617543: Square d'Orleans, Paris 9th. Appoints in tribute to King Louis Philippe (1773-1850). In the romantic period, many famous families had made this residential complex a veritable phalanstere of artists. This space of time is very protected by the Historic Monuments, was built from 1830 to 1832 by the British architect Edward Crecy, who in 1829 had brought it to Melle Mars, famous actress of the Theatre Francais and formidable businesswoman. The Square is made up of three inner courtyards connected by vault passages (Ankillary Corridors) to the coffered ceilings. There were 46 apartments and artists' workshops, the last of which is still visible in the third courtyard. The central courtyard, monumental, is an English square in the style of Regent's Park in London, England. Composed of 4 buildings on 4 floors, lined with beds, planted with trees, it is decorated in its centre with green baskets and a jet of water fed by the water of the Ourcq Canal. / Bridgeman Images