PIX4596625: Apollo 12: A. Bean and lunar soil samples - Apollo 12: A.Bean and lunar soil sample - Alan Bean holding a container filled with lunar dust. Reflecting on his visor, Conrad taking the picture. 19/11/1969. Astronaut Alan L. Bean, lunar module pilot for the Apollo 12 lunar landing mission, holds a Special Environmental Sample Container filled with lunar soil collected during the extravehicular activity (EVA) in which astronauts Charles Conrad Jr., commander, and Bean participated. Connrad, who took this picture, is reflected in the helmet visor of the lunar module pilot / Bridgeman Images

FLO4596628: The Gentian blue. Blue gentian, Gentiana acaulis, with white-lined sphinx moth, Hyles lineata. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz 'Precious and illuminated collection of the most beautiful and curious flowers, grown both in the gardens of China and in those of Europe, Paris, 1776. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4596563: Yellow Poppy has double flowers. Hybrid poppy, Papaver or Meconopsis species. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz 'Precious and illuminated collection of the most beautiful and curious flowers, grown both in the gardens of China and in those of Europe, Paris, 1776. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4596610: The Loosestrife. Purple loosestrife, Lythrum salicaria. Handcoloured etching from Pierre Joseph Buchoz 'Precious and illuminated collection of the most beautiful and curious flowers, grown both in the gardens of China and in those of Europe, Paris, 1776. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596752: Apollo 13: Saturn V rocket on his shooting pad - Apollo 13: Saturn V viewed from tower - Fusee Saturn V/Apollo 13 on his shooting pad / Bridgeman Images

PIX4596664: Apollo 13: original crew - Apollo 13: original crew - Original crew Apollo 13, from left to right: James A. Lovell, Thomas K. Mattingly and Fred W. Haise. 11/12/1969. From left to right: James A. Lovell, Commander; Thomas K. Mattingly, Command Module pilot and Fred W. Haise, Lunar Module pilot. Dec 11 1969 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4594195: Constellations of the Telescopium and Sagittarius - The Telescope is a small constellation of the southern hemisphere located just above Sagittarius / Bridgeman Images

LRI4594271: Virgin and Child and Angel. 15th century (Terracotta low relief), Della Robbia, Luca (1400-82) / Bridgeman Images

LRI4594308: Bust of young lady Marble sculpture by Desiderio da Settignano (ca. 1430-1464) Dim. 146 cm Florence, Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Desiderio da Settignano (1428-64) / Bridgeman Images

PIX4594350: Aquarius Constellations, Capricorn, Southern Fish and Microscope - Constellations of Aquarius, Capricorn, Piscis Austrinus, Microscopiu / Bridgeman Images

FLO4594361: Transit instruments for moving telescopes and other astronomical instruments. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry after a drawing by J. Farey from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4594412: Presbyteres agaric (Agaricus personatus 1), russule heterophyll (Russula heterophylla 2), clavary amethyst (Clavaria amethystina 3) - Chromolithography based on a drawing by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914), published in “A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi” (English), Robert Hardwicke Edition, London, 1862 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4594434: Cepe de Bordeaux (Boletus edulis) - Chromolithography based on a drawing by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1825-1914), published in “A Plain and Easy Account of British Fungi””, edition Robert Hardwicke, London, 1862 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4594597: The Southern Milky Way and south celestial pole - The Octant constellation houses the southern Celestial pole. See annotee image a - cst98 - 00005 to identify the different constellations present in the image. This part of the sky was mostly uncharted by Europeans until the 17th and 18th centuries, so many of the constellations in the southern (lower) half of the image are relatively modern constructions without mythlogical connotations. Octans, the Octant (a forerunner of the sextant) is an Enlightenment - period instrument whose outline was constructed on the sky by the vivid imagination of the Abbe Lacaille. The constellation is quite large but totally undistinguished. Its only notable feature is the South Celestial Pole, with is marked (within a degree or so) by the faint star s Octantis. Apus, the Bird of Paradise, first appeared in the star charts of the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603. It contains no named stars. Chameleon, a type of lizard. The stars here are even fainter than those in Apus. Mensa, the constellation was invented by de Lacaille to commemorate his sojourn at the Cape of Good Hope in the 1750s. The original name was Mons Mensa, Latin for Table Mountain. Its northern border crosses part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, possibly reminding Lacaille of the recurrent cloud over the mountain as seen from Cape Town. Musca, the Fly, is another undistinguished constellation that first appeared on Bayer's star charts in 1603 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4594601: The Southern Milky Way and south celestial pole - The Southern Milky Way and south celestial pole - The Octant constellation houses the south celeste pole (mark of a cross) This part of the sky was mostly uncharted by Europeans until the 17th and 18th centuries, so many of the constellations in the southern (lower) half of the image are relatively modern constructions without mythlogical connotations. Octans, the Octant (a forerunner of the sextant) is an Enlightenment - period instrument whose outline was constructed on the sky by the vivid imagination of the Abbe Lacaille. The constellation is quite large but totally undistinguished. Its only notable feature is the South Celestial Pole, with is marked (within a degree or so) by the faint star s Octantis. Apus, the Bird of Paradise, first appeared in the star charts of the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603. It contains no named stars. Chameleon, a type of lizard. The stars here are even fainter than those in Apus. Mensa, the constellation was invented by de Lacaille to commemorate his sojourn at the Cape of Good Hope in the 1750s. The original name was Mons Mensa, Latin for Table Mountain. Its northern border crosses part of the Large Magellanic Cloud, possibly reminding Lacaille of the recurrent cloud over the mountain as seen from Cape Town. Musca, the Fly, is another undistinguished constellation that first appeared on Bayer's star charts in 1603 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4594703: Christian constellations - Christian constellations - Map of the sky with the classical Christian constellations. Engraving from “Harmonia Macrocosmica” by Andreas Cellarius, 1660 - 1661. Second hemisphere with the christianized constellations. Plate of the Harmonia Macrocosmica of Andreas Cellarius, 1660 - 1661 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4594727: Dress (Robe) of the reign of George I, 1714-1727, copied from one preserved from the era. She wear a flat hat decorated with ribbons, a dress with long train in floral stripes, tied at the bust with a ribbon. Based on The World, Addison's “Spectator,””” Watteau's pictures. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4594805: Dress (Dress) of the reign of George IV, 1820-1830. Woman in feathered headdress, high-waisted gown and embroidered skirt, gloves and fan. Based on dresses preserved after the first Dressingroom held by the king, when hoops were abolished by command. Handcoloured lithograph from “” Costumes of British Ladies from the Time of William the First to the Reign of Queen Victoria”, London, Dickinson and Son, 1840. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4594898: Mr. John Cooper as Clement Cleveland in “The Pirate” at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by Michael William Sharp. From D. Terry's “” British Theatrical Gallery,” London, Henry Berthoud Jr., 1825. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4594909: Urban furniture on the Champs Elysees, Paris 8th arrondissement. As part of the redesign of the Champs Elysees entrusted to Bernard Huet, a new line of urban furniture has been specially designed by Jean-Michel Wilmotte to give a unit by eliminating bulky and unnecessary elements: new benches, candelabres, lights, kiosks. Photography 1998. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4594929: Mr. Etienne le Blond, ballet dancer, at the Theatre Royal Opera House Haymarket. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by Frederic de Waldeck. From D. Terry's “” British Theatrical Gallery,” London, Henry Berthoud Jr., 1825. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4594957: Miss Harriet Constance Smithson as Miss Dorrillon in “Wives as They Were and Maids as They Are” the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Robert Cooper after a painting by George Clint. From D. Terry's “” British Theatrical Gallery,” London, Henry Berthoud Jr., 1825. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4594963: Theatre du Rond Point des Champs Elysees in Paris 8th arrondisement. Old panorama built in 1858, by Gabriel Davioud (1824-1881) to replace the one created by Jacques Hittorf (1792-1867). / Bridgeman Images

PIX4594993: Decollage Apollo 4 - 11/1967 - Apollo 4 launch - Decollage of the Saturn V/Apollo 4 rocket on 9/11/1967. Apollo 4 was launched from Pad A Launch Complex 39 on Nov 9 1967. The successful objectives of the Apollo 4 Earth - orbital unmanned space mission obtained included flight information on launch vehicle and spacecraft structural integrity and compatibility, flight loads, stage separation, subsystem operation, emergency detection subsystem operation, and evaluation of the Apollo Command Module heat shield under conditions encountered on return from a moon mission / Bridgeman Images

LRI4595009: River Modele in wood, clay, wool and fabric designed for Medici tombs. Marble sculpture made by Michelangelo Buonarroti dit Michelangelo (Michelangelo or Michel Ange, 1475 - 1564), about 1524. Dim. 180 cm. Casa Buonarroti Florence, Buonarroti, Michelangelo (1475-1564) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4595021: Fouquet's avenue des Champs Elysees, Paris 8th round. It was Jean Baptiste (Jean-Baptiste) Colbert (1619-1683) who had Andre Le Notre (1613-1700) opened in 1667 an avenue starting from the Tuileries to reach a hill, today called L'Etoile. There's nothing left from that time. Only nineteenth century witnesses remain on the Champs Elysees. / Bridgeman Images

FLO4595098: Peach varieties, Prunus persica: Duke of Marlborough's Peach, blossom, Rumbullion Peach and segment showing stone and flesh. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595119: Crew Apollo 9 - Apollo 9 crew - Crew Apollo 9, from left to right: James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott and Russell L. Schweickart. 18/12/1968. These three astronauts are the prime crew of the Apollo 9 (Spacecraft 104/Lunar Module 3/Saturn 504) space mission. Left to right, are James A. McDivitt, commander; David R. Scott, command module pilot; and Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot. 18 Dec 1968 / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595151: Apollo 9: Saturn V rocket - Apollo 9: Saturn V roll out - Saturn V rocket en route to its fire pad at the Kennedy space center. January 3, 1969. Aerial view of the Apollo 9 (Spacecraft 104/Lunar Module 3/Saturn 504) space vehicle on the way from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center. The Saturn V stack and its mobile launch tower are atop a huge crawler - transporter. (view looking toward Pad A) Jan 3, 1969 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4595166: Grape de Calmes grape, Vitis vinifera. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images

TEC4595189: Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 27 avenue Friedland, Paris 8th arrondissement. One of the most beautiful private hotels inspired by French classicism style, built in 1878-1884, architect Jules Reboul. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4595224: Apollo 9: the LEM seen from the command module - Apollo 9: LM seen from the Command Module - The LEM, “” Spider””, seen from the command module. 07/03/1969 A View of the Apollo 9 Lunar Module (LM), “” Spider,””” in a lunar lading configuration, as photographed from the Command and Service Modules (CSM) on the fifth day of the Apollo 9 - Orbital mission. The landing gear on the “” Spider””” has been deployed. Inside the “” Spider”” were astronauts James A. McDivitt, Apollo 9 commander; and Russell L. Schweickart, lunar module pilot. Astronaut David R. Scott, command module pilot, remained at the controls in the Command Module (CM), “” Gumdrop,”” while the other two astronauts checked out the LM. Tue 7 1969 / Bridgeman Images

FLO4595318: Apple varieties, Malus domestica: Red Courpendu, White Courpendu, Embroidered Pippin and Lemon Pippin. Handcoloured stipple engraving of an illustration by George Brookshaw from his own “” Pomona Britannica,”” London, Longman, Hurst, etc., 1817. The quarto edition of the original folio edition published from 1804-1812. Brookshaw (1751-1823) was a successful cabinet maker who disappeared in the 1790s before returning as a flower painter with the anonymous “” New Treatise on Flower Painting,””” 1797. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4594142: Debut de nuit de Printemps - Beginning of a spring night - In this early night of Spring, the winter constellations lie down; from left to right, the Great Dog, Orion, the Taurus. Here, the Moon is close to the Pleiades cluster with above the brilliant planet Venus. 19 April 2007, Le Guilvinec (Finistere - France). Beginning of a spring night where winter constellations are setting. from left to right, Canis Major, Orion, Taurus. Also visible are the moon near Pleiades cluster with Venus above. April 19 2007, Le Guilvinec (Finistere - France) / Bridgeman Images

TEC4594156: Rue Quimcampoix in Paris. / Bridgeman Images

PIX4594443: Constellations of the Virgin, the Raven and the Cup - Constellations of Virgo, Corvus and Crate / Bridgeman Images