FLO4653327: Sawakigyou, Lobelia sessilifolia, native to Japan (Japanese lobelia). Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653563: Futarishizuka or serrate-leaf chloranthus, Chloranthus serratus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653597: Kakinohana or Japanese persimmon flower, Diospyros kaki. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653643: Kokuchinashi or dwarf gardenia, Gardenia augusta Radicans. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653792: Kinmokusai or sweet osmanthus, Osmanthus fragrans var. aurantiacus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653306: Giboushi or plantain lily leaf, Hosta montana. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653471: Keshi or opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, and azumagiku or Thunberg's fleabane, Erigeron thunbergii (poppy poppy). Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1900. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653501: Byouyanagi or Chinese St. John's wort, Hypericum monogynum (St. John's wort, devil's hunter, fee grass, herb with a thousand virtues, St. Eloi's grass, St. John's grass) Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653565: Umebachisou or marsh grass-of-parnassus, Parnassia palustris (Marsh Parnassie) Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653678: Shaga, fringed or crested iris, Iris japonica. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653704: Kuroyuri or chocolate fritillary, Fritillaria camschatcensis. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4653507: Juyaku or dokudami, lizard tail plant, Houttuynia cordata Thunb (saurure ou queue de lezard) Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Senshu no Hana (One Thousand Varieties of Flowers), Bunkyudo, Kyoto, 1889. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4654471: Mukkou bara or Lady Banks' pink, Rosa banksiae. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4648845: The hyssop officinale (Hyssopus officinalis) Coloured copper prints from a drawing by B. Thanner by Johannes Zorn “Afbeeldingen der Artseny-Gewassen”” (Icons de plantes medicinales) published by Jan Christiaan Sepp in 1796. Zorn (1739-1799) was a German pharmacist and botanist who travelled all over Europe looking for medicinal plants. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4648595: Nouzenharen or garden nasturtium, Tropaeolum majus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4648808: Shikunshi, Chinese honeysuckle or Rangoon creeper, Combretum indicum. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4648836: Benkeisou or garden stonecrop, Hylotelephium erythrostictum. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4648879: Yamagobou or oyamabokuchi, Synurus pungens. Handcoloured woodblock print by Kono Bairei from Kusa Bana Hyakushu (One Hundred Varieties of Flowers), Tokyo, Yamada, 1901. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4648884: Hybrid white rose, Imperatrice Eugenie, Empress Eugenie. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed by L. Stroobant for “L'Illustration Horticole,”” Ghent, 1860. Ambroise Verschaffelt (1825 € ¿1886) was a distinguished Belgian horticulturist and author. He founded the L'Illustration Horticole at Ghent in 1854. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4649093: Regate at the Ponte di Rialto in Venice, detail of the docks (Painting, 16th century), Heintz, Joseph (1564-1609) / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649299: Desprez rose, hybrid of the hazelnut (Rosa chinensis and Rosa moschata), raised by Monsieur Desprez of Yebles in 1830. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Francois Frederic GROBON (1815-1901) ran his own atelier and illustrated “” Fleurs” after Redoute with his brother Anthelme as the Grobon freres. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649048: Baroness Prevost rose, hybrid raised by Monsieur Desprez at Yebles near Melun in 1843. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Francois Frederic GROBON (1815-1901) ran his own atelier and illustrated “” Fleurs” after Redoute with his brother Anthelme as the Grobon freres. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649082: Jules Margottin rose, hybrid raised by Monsieur Margottin of Bourg-la-Reine in 1853. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Francois Frederic GROBON (1815-1901) ran his own atelier and illustrated “” Fleurs” after Redoute with his brother Anthelme as the Grobon freres. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649156: La Biche rose, variety of white noisette, raised by Monsieur Toullier of Reuil in 1832. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Francois Frederic GROBON (1815-1901) ran his own atelier and illustrated “” Fleurs” after Redoute with his brother Anthelme as the Grobon freres. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649309: Madame Edouard Ory rose, hybrid of the moss rose, Rosa muscosa, raised by Monsieur Robert of Angers in 1854. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Francois Frederic GROBON (1815-1901) ran his own atelier and illustrated “” Fleurs” after Redoute with his brother Anthelme as the Grobon freres. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649476: The dhole, Asian cuon or Asian wild dog, Cuon alpinus - Lithograph by Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith to illustrate Naturalist's Library: Dogs by Sir William Jardine, edition W. H Lizars, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1839 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4648937: Astronaut Lisa Nowak - mission STS-121 - Astronaut Lisa Nowak floats weightlessly in space shuttle Discovery. Mission STS-121 - 4 to 17 July 2006 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649193: Elisa Boelle rose, hybrid rose raised by Monsieur Guillot Jr. of Lyon in 1869. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Francois Frederic GROBON (1815-1901) ran his own atelier and illustrated “” Fleurs” after Redoute with his brother Anthelme as the Grobon freres. / Bridgeman Images

LRI4649246: Prehistory: flint scrapers. Neolithic era. From Umbria. Perugia, Museo Archeologico Nazionale dell'Umbria, Prehistoric / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649697: Cape lion. Lithograph of William Lizars, based on a drawing by Charles Hamilton Smith, for “” Bibliotheque naturaliste, mammals, les felins”, by Sir William Jardine, published in 1834 in Edinburgh (Scotland). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4649999: Gene Kranz, Head of Mission - Houston Control Room - Eugene Kranz, Head of Mission, celebrates the return to Earth of the Challenger Space Shuttle mission. April 1984 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4650144: Horned sungem, Heliactin bilophus, male (Double-crested hummingbird, Trochilus cornutus). Handcoloured steel engraving by William Lizars from Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ornithology: Hummingbirds, Edinburgh, W.H. Lizars, 1834. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649628: Louis van Houtte rose, hybrid variety raised by Monsieur Lacharme in Lyon in 1869 and dedicated to the famous Belgian nursery owner. Chromolithograph drawn and lithographed after nature by F. Grobon from Hippolyte Jamain and Eugene Forney's “” Les Roses,” Paris, J. Rothschild, 1873. Jamain was a rose grower and Forney a professor of arboriculture. Franã§ois / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649651: Fox, Extirpated Species, Cerdocyon mesoleucus - Lithograph by Colonel Charles Hamilton Smith to illustrate Naturalist's Library: Dogs by Sir William Jardine, W. H Lizars Edition, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1839 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649721: Indian rose, Rose de Bengal, Rosa indica, and Primula auricula, bear ear. Handcoloured botanical engraving from “” Le Jardinier Fleuriste, dedie aux dames,” Paris, 1819. The verses are signed by Laurent-Pierre Berenger (1749-1822), who may be the author of this work. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4649825: Spotted piranha, Serrasalmus marginatus (Red-bordered saw-bellied salmon, Serrasalmo emarginatus). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Schomburg's Fishes of Guiana, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist's Library: Ichthyology, Edinburgh, 1841. / Bridgeman Images