FLO4583293: Pistil and stamens of the tree Cannon ball - Cannonball tree, Couroupita guianensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis' “” Botanical Magazine,”” London, 1832. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4583401: Hairy stylidium, Stylidium hirsutum, native to Australia. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by James McNab from Samuel Curtis' “” Botanical Magazine,”” London, 1832. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4583457: View of one of the wooden angels in the chapel of Bardi di Vernio (A gilded wooden angel) 14th century Florence, Basilica Santa Croce, Italy, Italian School, (14th century) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4583581: Red flower of mulungu or corticeira (Erythrina velutina) - Illustration by William Jackson Hooper (1785-1865), engraving by Swan, for the botanical magazine of William Curtis, 1833 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4583616: Artist view of the fall of a meteorite in Greenland - Fire over ice - Artist view - Artist view of the fall of a meteorite in Greenland. On December 9, 1997, a huge fireball was observed by several witnesses. The impact on Earth was detected by satellite; the object reportedly broke into four pieces before touching the ground. A huge fireball exploding over the Greenland ice cap, Dixon, Don (b.1951) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4598033: Osprey, Pandion haliaetus, and short-toed snake eagle. Circaetus gallicus. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Fournier after a drawing by Edouard Travies from Richard's “New Edition of the Complete Works of Buffon,”” Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1837. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4598118: Matador preparing to stab a bull with two banderillas in the bullring. Chromolithograph by E. Casanova after an illustration by Daniel Perea from Bullfight, Corrida del Toros, Madrid, Boronat & Satorre, 1894. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4598138: Matador making a pass with the muleta (cape) and sword. Chromolithograph by L. Gomez after an illustration by Daniel Perea from Bullfight, Corrida del Toros, Madrid, Boronat & Satorre, 1894. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4598229: La Sabine, the Savinier Juniperus fabina. Venenous plant, description of a male (centre) and female (left) branch, with details of fruit at different stages of maturity. Eau forte en couleurs 18th century, in Herbier de la France (1780-1793), drawing, engraving and printing by Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard (1742-1793), French botanist. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4598339: The white Lamion (Lamium album) or white nettle. Medicinal plant, description of the plant with stem, roots, leaves, flowers. Details of chalice, corolla and ovaries. Eau forte en couleurs 18th century, in Herbier de la France (1780-1793), drawing, engraving and printing by Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard (1742-1793), French botanist. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4598355: Mai's thrush (Convallaria majalis). Medicinal plant, description of the plant with stem, leaves and flowersand a plant with mature fruit and roots. Details of corolla, ovary and two seeds. Eau forte en couleurs 18th century, in Herbier de la France (1780-1793), drawing, engraving and printing by Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard (1742-1793), French botanist. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4598417: Field edge (Convolvulus arvensis). Medicinal plant, description of a plant with stem and its development around a tutor, with its leaves and flowers at different stages of maturity. Details of the corolla and stamens. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4598482: Watercress (Sisymbrium nasturtium). Complete description of the plant, with roots, thick stem, leaves and flowers. Deatils of the flower and a silic. Eau forte en couleurs 18th century, in Herbier de la France (1780-1793), drawing, engraving and printing by Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard (1742-1793), French botanist. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4598494: The rocket cultivated (Brassica eruca). Medicinal plant, description of the upper part of the plant (stem and flowers), lower leaf and details of the flower and tongue containing the seeds. Eau forte en couleurs 18th century, in Herbier de la France (1780-1793), drawing, engraving and printing by Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard (1742-1793), French botanist. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4609426: Tricolor Ficoide Copper engraving, painted by John Curtis and grave by Weddell, published in the “” Curtis Botanical Magazine”, 1820, by Samuel Curtis, London, England. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4609452: Portrait of a lady, Allegory of Virginity. (Painting, 16th century), Palma, Jacopo (Il Vecchio) (c.1480-1528) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4609505: Digital. Copper engraving, painted by John Curtis and grave by Weddell, published in the “Curtis Botanical Magazine”, 1820, by Samuel Curtis, London, England. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4609695: Portrait of Don Baldassarre di Antonio di Angelo, monk of the Abbey of Vallombrosa Profile of a monk of the monastery of Vallombreuse. Painting by Pietro Vannucci dit il Perugino (The Perugin, 1446 - 1523) 1499 approx. Sun. 26x27 cm Florence, galleria degli Uffizi (Offices), Perugino, Pietro (c.1445-1523) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4609724: Heart-leaved poison, Gastrolobium bilobum. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis from Samuel Curtis' Botanical Magazine, London, 1821. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4583658: Carde, cardon or spanish thistle (Cynara cardunculus) - Illustration by William Jackson Hooper (1785-1865), engraving by Swan, for the botanical magazine of William Curtis, 1833 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4583675: Rose Arabette (Arabis rosea) - Illustration by William Jackson Hooper (1785-1865), etched by Swan, for the botanical magazine of William Curtis, 1833 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4609844: Scorzonera-leaved rampion, Phyteuma scorzonerifolium. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Weddell after an illustration by John Curtis from Samuel Curtis' Botanical Magazine, London, 1822. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4609863: Sperch (Spercheus emarginatus), hydrophilic coleoptere variete. Lithograph by John Curtis (1791-1862) published in “British Entomology”, a collection of 770 illustrations and descriptions of British insects, London, England, 1824 to 1839. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4583792: Flower detail and branch of Cargillia australis - Illustration by William Jackson Hooper (1785-1865), engraving by Swan, for the botanical magazine of William Curtis, 1833 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4583817: Succulent eperviere or bearded crepis, flower with yellow fringe and purple heart. Bearded crepis, or purple eyed succory hawkweed. Yellow fringed flower with purple eye. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4583908: South Star - Oxypetalum caeruleum (Changeable flowered tweedia, Tweedia versicolor). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Walter Fitch from William Jackson Hooker's Botanical Magazine, London, 1838. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4583955: Passiflora fetide - Wild maracuja, Passiflora foetida (Nigella flowered passion-flower, Passiflora nigelliflora). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Walter Fitch from William Jackson Hooker's Botanical Magazine, London, 1838. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4584011: Collegiate variete - Bristling colletia, Collegia horrida (Collegia spinosa). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Walter Fitch from William Jackson Hooker's Botanical Magazine, London, 1838. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4599041: Bistorte - Great bistort or snakeweed, Polygonum bistorta, flower, leaf and root. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4584361: White and Violet Orchid, Miltonia spectabilis - Botanical illustration by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892), lithography published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine for Sir William Jackson Hooker, Reeve Brothers Edition, London 1846 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4584506: White-flowered eranthemum variete, Eranthemum pulchellum - Botanical illustration by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892), lithography published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine for Sir William Jackson Hooker, Reeve Brothers edition, London 1846 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4584678: Violet flower asystasia variete, Assytasia coromandeliana - Botanical illustration by Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892), lithography published in Curtis's Botanical Magazine for Sir William Jackson Hooker, Reeve Brothers edition, London 1846 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4600333: Wood Cinnamon - Canella or wild cinnamon, Canella winterana (Canella alba). Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4600421: Nenuphar blanc ou grand nenuphar - European white waterlily, Nymphaea alba. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4600449: Arum stain or Gouet stain - Cuckoopint, Arum maculatum. Handcoloured zincograph by C. Chabot drawn by Miss M. A. Burnett from her “” Plantae Utiliores: or Illustrations of Useful Plants,”” Whittaker, London, 1842. Miss Burnett drew the botanical illustrations, but the text was chiefly by her late brother, British botanist Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800-1835). / Bridgeman Images

FLO4600521: Kaw or Kansa Nation: Chief Sho-me-cos-se, Wolf, 133, Meach-o-shin-gaw, Little White Bear 134, Chesh-o-hong-ha, Man of Good Sense 135, and Wa-hon-ga-shee, No Fool 136. With shaved heads decorated with crest of deer tail dyed red. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians, London, 1841. / Bridgeman Images