PIX4667364: L'Etna (Sicily) seen by ISS 05/2016 - Mt. Etna Summit Plumes, Sicily 05/2016 - Etna, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, observes from the International Space Station on May 17, 2016. Mt. Etna Summit Plumes, Sicily is featured in this image photographed by an Expedition 47 crewmember on the International Space Station / Bridgeman Images
PIX4667381: The Bernese Alps - Jungfrau and Aletsch Glacier - View of the peaks of the Jungfrau, Moench and Eiger in the Bernese Alps. Between the Jungfrau and the Moench, the Aletsch glacier. To the north is Lake Brienz. Image obtained on 5 September 2006 from the International Space Station / Bridgeman Images
PIX4665706: First public clock of Paris - Paris oldest public clock - First public clock of Paris, commissioned in 1371 by Charles V, redone and decoree under Henri III. It is located on the Clock Tower, at the corner of Boulevard du Palais and Quai de l'Horloge. She's not working anymore and she's lost her needles. Paris 'first clock is on the wall of the Concierge and was built in 1370 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4665719: First public clock of Paris - Paris oldest public clock - First public clock of Paris, commissioned in 1371 by Charles V, redone and decoree under Henri III. It is located on the Clock Tower, at the corner of Boulevard du Palais and Quai de l'Horloge. She's not working anymore and she's lost her needles. Paris 'first clock is on the wall of the Concierge and was built in 1370 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4665744: Plaque de la rue Esclangon a Paris - Street Plaque in Paris - Rue du XVIIIème arrondissement de Paris, in tribute to Ernest Benjamin Esclangon, astronomer and physicist (1876 - 1954) First astronomer at the Observatoire de Bordeaux (1899), Esclangon was then Director of the Observatory of Strasbourg (1918 - 1929), before becoming Director of the Observatory of Paris (1929 - 1944). Member of the Academy of Sciences in 1929, he joined the International Astronomical Union from 1935 to 1938. We owe him the invention of the talking clock. Street Esclangon, street sign. Benjamin Esclangon (1876 - 1954) was a french astronomer / Bridgeman Images
PIX4665686: First public clock of Paris - Paris oldest public clock - First public clock of Paris, commissioned in 1371 by Charles V, redone and decoree under Henri III. It is located on the Clock Tower, at the corner of Boulevard du Palais and Quai de l'Horloge. She's not working anymore and she's lost her needles. Paris 'first clock is on the wall of the Concierge and was built in 1370 / Bridgeman Images
PIX4666721: Malta view by satellite - Malta seen from satellite Envisat - Image obtained by satellite Envisat. This MERIS (Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer) image is centred over the island of Malta (dark green area). It is located some 93 km south of Sicily, in the central Mediterranean Sea. It consists of an archipelago but only the three largest islands: Malta Island, Gozo, and Comino are inhabited / Bridgeman Images
LRI4667495: Islamic Art: “” Sohrab (Saharab) looks at the tent of Rostame””” Persian miniature from a manuscript of the epic poem “” Shahnameh”” (Shah Nama, Shahnama) (Book of Kings) by Ferdowsi (Firdawsi, or Ferdawsi, or Firdousi, ca. 940-around 1020) (ms. 607) Chantilly, Conde museum, Islamic School, (16th century) / Bridgeman Images