FLO4622678: English hydraulic machines including waterwheels and waterpump driven by manpower. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moderno di Tutti i i Popoli), Florence, 1842. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622732: Cocon Nebula (IC 5146) in the Cygn / Bridgeman Images

FLO4622735: Chinese interior decoration and furniture, with elegant murals, lanterns, stools, tables and calligraphy. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moderno di Tutti i i Popoli), Florence, 1842. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4622768: English itinerant merchant with cart loaded with food products. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moderno di Tutti i i Popoli), Florence, 1842. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622777: Planetary nebula NGC 246 in the Whale - Planetary nebula NGC 246 in Constellation Cetu / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622802: Neptune seen by Voyager 2 - Image of Neptune obtained by the Voyager 2 probe on August 20, 1989. Neptune has an equatorial diameter of about 49,000 kilometres. Its blue color is due to the abundance of methane in its atmosphere. In this photo, in the centre, the Great Dark Spot, which is the size of the Earth where winds are blowing at 300 m/s. This spot has now disappeared but other dark spots have been detected since then. Under the Great Dark Spot, on the left, a small cloud of irregular shape moving very quickly, nicknamed the scooter / Bridgeman Images

FLO4622827: Japanese flags, emblems and insignia including mythical beasts (kirin, phoenix). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moderno di Tutti i i Popoli), Florence, 1842. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4622874: Japanese vessels and ships, mercantile and fishing boats, one decorated with flags and banners, one with a pyramid-shaped sail. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Antique and Modern of All Peoples (Il Costume Antico e Moderno di Tutti i i Popoli), Florence, 1842. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4622881: King Henry VI (kneeling in prayer) (Henry VI) and his queen, Margaret of Anjou, with a broker. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4622910: Anglo-Saxon warrior chief in tunic and conical helmet 1, Anglo-Danish soldiers in chainmail armour 2, the knight Sir Hugh Bardulf in chainmail armour 13th century 3, and a Scottish knight with coat of arms 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre and Stanghi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622956: Planetary nebula NGC 2440 in the stern - View of planetary nebula NGC 2440 in the stern obtained by the Hubble space telescope on 6 February 2007. The star in the center of the image is a white dwarf, a star at the end of life that expels the outer layers of its material all around it. Our Sun could have a similar fate in five billion years. This star is one of the hottest in history; its temperature is 200,000 degres Celsius. NGC 2440 is located about 4000 years from Earth / Bridgeman Images

PIX4622959: Planetary nebula NGC 2818 - Planetary nebula NGC 2818 in Pyxis - The open cluster NGC 2818A in the southern constellation of the Compsole is distinguished by the fact that most of its bright stars have already become supernovae; this indicates that this cluster must be very old, perhaps a billion years. It has a planetary nebula, NGC 2818, photographed here by the Hubble space telescope in November 2008. A planetary nebula is an end-of-life star. NGC 2818 (also called PLN 261+8.1) is located about 10,000 light years from Earth. The unique planetary nebula NGC 2818 is nested inside the open star cluster NGC 2818A. Both the cluster and the nebula reside over 10,000 light - years away, in the southern constellation Pyxis (the Compasss). NGC 2818 is one of very few planetary nebulae in our galaxy located within an open cluster. Open clusters, in general, are loosely bound and they disperse over hundreds of millions of years. Stars that form planetary nebulae typically live for billions of years. Hence, it is rare that an open cluster survives long enough for one of its members to form a planetary nebula. This open cluster is particularly ancient, estimated to be nearly one billion years old. The spectacular structure of NGC 2818 (also known as PLN 261+8.1) contains the outer layers of a sun - like star that were sent off into interstellar space during the star's final stages of life. These glowing gaseous shrouds were shed by the star after it ran out of fuel to sustain the nuclear reactions in its core. NGC 2818 has a complex shape that is difficult to interpret. However, because of its location within the cluster, astronomers have access to information about the nebula, such as its age and distance, that might not otherwise be known. Planetary nebulae fade away gradually over tens of thousands of years. The hot, remnant stellar core of NGC 2818 will eventually cool off for billions of years as a white dwarf. Our / Bridgeman Images

FLO4622965: Abbot Elfnoth of Westminster Cathedral, died 980. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre e Stanghi from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4622983: The Countess of Salisbury losing her garter dancing at a court ball, for King Edward II to pick up. The origin of the Order of the Garter, founded in 1348. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4622994: Wedding of 14-year-old Prince Edward (later King Edward I of England) and 11-year-old Eleonor of Castile at the monastery of Las Huelgas, Burgos, 1254. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4623006: Owl Planetary Nebula - M97 in the Great Bear / Bridgeman Images

FLO4623018: John Smeaton's Eddystone Lighthouse, men in an underwater diving bell, and plans for an underwater tunnel. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4623042: Greenwich Hospital on the River Thames, London, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4623044: The Triton satellite seen by Voyager 2 - Faux-colored image of Triton, the largest satellite of Neptune, obtained by the Voyager 2 probe on August 24, 1989, has a distance of 530,000 km from the satellite / Bridgeman Images

FLO4623061: English bare-knuckle boxers prize-fighting in a field, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Verico from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4623081: Temple of Odin at Old Uppsala, Sweden. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre from Giulio Ferrario's Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, 1847. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4625125: Variety of bee fishing. Chromolithography drawn by Walter Hood Fitch, Miss E. Regel and J.L. Macfarlane, lithography by G.Severeyns and Stroobant, Belgium, published in Floriste et Pomologie, by Robert Hogg, published in London 1878 to 1884. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4625126: Saturn and Rhea seen by the Cassini probe on 04 - 02 - 2007 - The Rhea satellite photographed in front of Saturn by the Cassini probe on 04 - 02 - 2007 at a distance of 1.2 million km from Saturn / Bridgeman Images

PIX4625133: Saturn and Mimas seen by the Cassini probe 18/01/2005 - Saturn and Mimas seen by Cassini spacecraft Jan. 18 2005 - The Mimas satellite photographed in front of Saturn by the Cassini probe on 18 January 2005 at a distance of 1.4 million km from the planet. The shadow of Saturn's rings is projected on the planet. Mimas drifts along in its orbit against the azure backdrop of Saturn's northern latitudes in this true color view. The long, dark lines on the atmosphere are shadows cast by the planet's rings. Saturn's northern hemisphere is presently relatively cloud - free, and rays of sunlight take a long path through the atmosphere. This results in sunlight being scattered at shorter (bluer) wavelengths, thus giving the northernmost latitudes their bluish appearance at visible wavelengths. At the bottom, craters on icy Mimas (398 kilometers, or 247 miles across) give the moon a dimpled appearance. Images taken using infrared (930 nanometers), green (568 nanometers) and ultraviolet (338 nanometers) spectral filters were combined. The colors have been adjusted to match closely what the scene would look like in natural color. The images were obtained using the Cassini spacecraft narrow angle camera on Jan. 18, 2005, at a distance of approximately 1.4 million kilometers (870,000 miles) from Saturn. Resolution in the image is 8.5 kilometers (5.3 miles) per pixel on Saturn and 7.5 kilometers (4.7 miles) per pixel on Mimas. The image has been contrast - enhanced to aid visibility / Bridgeman Images

PIX4625221: Saturn rings seen by Cassini - Saturn's rings from Cassini - Image obtained by the Cassini probe on November 26, 2008 at a distance of 1.1 million km from the planet. This natural color view shows the system of rings of Saturn up to ring F. The system of rings is composed from closest to Saturn to outermost by ring D, then C, B, the division of Cassini, A with division of Encke, F, G and E. This natural color mosaic, taken from 10 degrees below the illuminated side of the rings, shows, from left to right, radially outward from Saturn, the C ring (with its Colombo and Maxwell gaps); the B ring and the Cassini division beyond, with the intervening Huygens gap; the A ring (with its Encke and Keeler gaps); and, on the far right, the narrow F ring. The total span covers approximately 65,700 kilometers (40,800 miles). Although it is too faint to be seen here, the D ring is located just to the left of the C ring. The mosaic was constructed from 45 narrow - angle - camera images - - 15 separate sets of red, green and blue images - - taken over the course of about four hours, as Cassini scanned across the rings. The images in this view were obtained by Nasa's Cassini spacecraft on Nov. 26, 2008, at a distance of approximately 1.1 million kilometers (700,000 miles) from Saturn and at a sun - Saturn - spacecraft, or phase, angle of 28 degrees. Image scale in the radial (horizontal) direction is about 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) per pixel / Bridgeman Images

FLO4625222: Variete apple, tom put. Chromolithography drawn by Walter Hood Fitch, Miss E. Regel and J.L. Macfarlane, lithography by G.Severeyns and Stroobant, Belgium, published in Floriste et Pomologie, by Robert Hogg, published in London 1878 to 1884. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4625230: Tempete sur Saturn seen by the Cassini probe - Huge Storm on Saturn seen by Cassini spacecraft - Evolution of a huge tempete on Saturn seen by the Cassini probe from December 5, 2010 to August 12, 2011. This series of images from Nasa's Cassini spacecraft shows the development of the largest storm seen on the planet since 1990. These true - color and composite near - true - color views chronicle the storm from its start in late 2010 through mid - 2011, showing how the distinct head of the storm quickly grew large but eventually became engulfed by the storm's tail. The earliest image of the storm, taken Dec. 5, 2010, is in the top left of the panel. The storm appears only as a small, white cloud on the terminator between the day side and night side of the planet. The next view, in the top middle of the panel and taken Jan. 2, 2011, shows that the head quickly grew much larger and a tail began to trail a great distance eastward. Some of the clouds moved south and got caught up in a current that flows to the east (to the right) relative to the storm head. In the top right of the panel, this tail, which appears as slightly blue clouds south and now west (left) of the storm head, can be seen encountering the storm in the Feb. 25 image.The April 22 image, in the bottom left of the panel, is one of Cassini's last views of the storm when it still had a recognizable head. In this view, the tail is south of the head and is well established by this time.The May 18 view, in the bottom middle, shows only the storm's tail. The head still existed at this time, but it is beyond the horizon and out of the field of view here.Between the time of the May 18 image and the next image shown here (from Aug. 12), the head of the storm was engulfed by the part of the storm's tail that spread eastward at the same latitude as the head. The Aug. 12 image, in the bottom right, shows that the head has lost its distinct identity and is now just part of the jumble of the storm. Also visible in these / Bridgeman Images

PIX4625257: Saturn seen by the Cassini probe - Saturn northern hemisphere seen by Cassini spacecraft: Saturn seen by the Cassini probe on 25 April 2016. Cassini scanned across the planet and its rings on April 25, 2016, capturing three sets of red, green and blue images to cover this entire scene showing the planet and the main rings. The images were obtained using Cassini's wide-angle camera at a distance of approximately 1.9 million miles (3 million kilometers) from Saturn and at an elevation of about 30 degrees above the ring plane. The view looks toward the sunlit side of the rings from a Sun-saturn-spacecraft angle, or phase angle, of 55 degrees. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4625283: Saturn seen at equinox - Saturn during Equinox - Saturn seen by the Cassini probe on August 12, 2009, 1.25 days after the exact date of Saturn equinox. The images that make up this mosaic were obtained at a distance of 847,000 km from the planet. Several satellites are visible in this image: Janus (lower left), Epimethee (lower middle), Pandora (on the right of the image, outside the rings) and Atlas (on the right, inside the F ring). Seen from our planet, the view of Saturn's rings during equinox is extremely foreshortened and limited. But in orbit around Saturn, Cassini spacecraft had no such problems. From 20 degrees above the ring plane, Cassini's wide angle camera shot 75 exposures in succession for this mosaic showing Saturn, its rings, and a few of its moons a day and a half after exact Saturn equinox, when the sun's disk was exactly overhead at the planet's equator. The novel illumination geometry that accompanies equinox lowers the sun's angle to the ring plane, significantly darkens the rings, and causes out - of - plane structures to look anomalously bright and to cast shadows across the rings. These scenes are possible only during the few months before and after Saturn's equinox which occurs only once in about 15 Earth years. Also at equinox, the shadows of the planet's expansive rings are compressed into a single, narrow band cast onto the planet as seen in this mosaic. The images comprising the mosaic, taken over about eight hours, were extensively processed before being joined together. At this time so close to equinox, illumination of the rings by sunlight reflected off the planet vastly dominates any meager sunlight falling on the rings. Hence, the half of the rings on the left illuminated by planetshine is, before processing, much brighter than the half of the rings on the right. On the right, it is only the vertically extended parts of the rings that catch any substantial sunlight. With no enhancement, the rings woul / Bridgeman Images

FLO4625290: Apple variety, sops in wine. Chromolithography drawn by Walter Hood Fitch, Miss E. Regel and J.L. Macfarlane, lithography by G.Severeyns and Stroobant, Belgium, published in Floriste et Pomologie, by Robert Hogg, published in London 1878 to 1884. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4625300: Variete of apple, golden reinette of Werder. Chromolithography drawn by Walter Hood Fitch, Miss E. Regel and J.L. Macfarlane, lithography by G.Severeyns and Stroobant, Belgium, published in Floriste et Pomologie, by Robert Hogg, published in London 1878 to 1884. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4625340: Titan, Saturn satellite seen by Cassini - Saturn's moon Titan as seen by Cassini spacecraft: Visible and infrared composite image of Titan taken by the Cassini probe on August 21, 2014. View of methane and ethane lakes lit by the Sun. - This near-infrared, color mosaic from Nasa's Cassini spacecraft shows the sun glinting off of Titan's north polar seas. - The sunglint, also called a specular reflection, is the bright area near the 11 o'clock position at upper left. This mirror-like reflection, known as the specular point, is in the south of Titan's largest sea, Kraken Mare, just north of an island archipelago separating two separate parts of the sea - This particular sunglint was so bright as to saturate the detector of Cassini's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) instrument, which captures the view. - The southern portion of Kraken Mare (the area surrounding the specular feature toward upper left) displays a “” bathtub ring”” - a bright margin of evaporate deposits - which indicates that the sea was larger at some point in the past and has become smaller due to evaporation. The deposits are material left behind after the methane & ethane liquid evaporates, somewhat akin to the saline crust on a salt flat / Bridgeman Images

FLO4625355: Cherry variety Bigarreau Napoleon. Chromolithography drawn by Walter Hood Fitch, Miss E. Regel and J.L. Macfarlane, lithography by G.Severeyns and Stroobant, Belgium, published in Floriste et Pomologie, by Robert Hogg, published in London 1878 to 1884. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4625393: Japet - satellite of Saturn - Cassini - 31 - 12 - 2004 - Image of Japet, a satellite of 1436 kilometers in diameter, taken by the Cassini probe on 31 December 2004 at a distance of 172,900 km from the satellite. Region north of Cassini Regio / Bridgeman Images

FLO4625402: A shepherd holding a small lamb in his arms - Lithograph by Louis Lassalle, extracted from Les fleurs parlantes by Louise Leneveux (1800-18?) , Paris, 1848 - (A shepherd and baby with dog and young goat - Handcoloured frontispiece lithograph by Lassalle from L. Leneveux, The Talking Flowers, Paris, 1848) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4625412: Wild or tricolor Pensee - Lithography by Louis Lassalle, from Les fleurs parlantes by Louise Leneveux (1800-18?) , Paris, 1848 - (Pansy flower fairy, Viola tricolor - Handcoloured frontispiece lithograph by Lassalle from L. Leneveux, The Talking Flowers, Paris, 1848) / Bridgeman Images