PIX4604675: Fusee Soyuz FG - Fregat - Venus Express Probe - View of the Soyuz FG - Fregat rocket in the integration building in Baikonour, Kazakhstan, before being transferred to the fire pad. This rocket was launched on 9 November 2005, successfully placing the European Venus Express probe in orbit. The fully integrated Soyuz FG - Fregat vehicle carrying ESA's Venus Express probe, on its erector - transporter wagon in the MIK - 40 assembly and integration building, in Baikonour, Kazakhstan. The vehicle, already fitted with its payload, will then be transferred to launch complex no.31 for four days of pre - launch check out and countdown rehearsals before the flight. The lift - off occurred at 04:33 CET (03:33 UT) on November 9, 2005, and Venus Express was successfully launched on a solar orbit towards Venus / Bridgeman Images
PIX4604727: Soyuz FG - Fregat - 04 - 2005 - View of the Soyuz FG - Fregat rocket during its transfer from the integration building to the Baikonour fire pitch, Kazakhstan, April 13, 2005. This rocket decolished on 15 April 2005, taking a crew of three men aboard the Soyuz TMA capsule to reach the international space station two days later. The Soyuz FG launcher carrying the Soyuz TMA - 6 spacecraft is transferred to launch pad 1/5 at the Baikonour Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, early in the morning of April 13, 2005, two days before its lift - off for the Eneide mission to the International Space Station (ISS) with ESA astronaut Roberto Vittori, from Italy. The Soyuz spacecraft is enclosed in the white protective fairing / Bridgeman Images
TEC4604906: Pont Neuf, Paris. The oldest bridge in Paris. Henry III laid the first stone in 1578. Interrupted between 1588 and 1599 by civil wars, it was not inaugurated until 1607 by Henri IV. (Architect Jacques Androuet du Cerceau, realisation 1578-1604). In 1854 candelabres were installed by Victor Balard. / Bridgeman Images
FLO4600064: Raspberry - Common raspberry, Rubus idaeus, with flower, leaf, and ripe fruit. 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
FLO4600217: Reseda fragrant - Garden cute, Reseda odorata. 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
FLO4600238: Carnation, Dianthus caryophyllus. 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
FLO4600393: Rosier de Banks - Yellow rose, Rosa banksia lutea. 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
FLO4604532: Copalm of America or Liquidambar - Storax or liquid amber, Liquidambar styraciflua. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4603309: Fumeterre officinale or Foot de Celine - Fumitory, Fumaria officinalis, showing flowers, leaves and seeds. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4603370: Juniper tree, Juniperus vulgaris, showing leaf, berry and stalk. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4603442: Leafy mistletoe - Mistletoe, Vissperm album. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4603450: Marshmallow, Wild Marshmallow or White Mallow - Marsh mallow, Althaea officinalis. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4603495: Climbing hops - Hops, Humulus lupulus. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4603556: Iris fetide or iris leg, stinking iris - Stinking iris, Iris foetida, with flower, leaf and seed pod. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Dubois from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4603637: Laurel tree, Laurus nobilis, with leaf, berry and seed. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4604435: Scammonee - Scammony, Convolvulus scammonia, with flower, leaf, stalk and climbing tendril. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,”” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830., Turpin, Pierre Jean Francois (1775-1840) / Bridgeman Images
FLO4604831: Melia azedarach ou lilac de Perse - Engraving by Lambert fils, after a drawing by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), extracted from La flore medicale, de Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet, Paris 1830 - White cedar or chinaberry tree, Melia azedarach - Engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by P - J - F - Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret and Chamberet's “” La Flora Medicale,” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830 - / Bridgeman Images
FLO4604850: Balsamier of Mecca or balsam of Judee or white balsamier - Engraving by Lambert fils, after a drawing by Pierre Jean Francois Turpin (1775-1840), extracted from La flore medicale, by Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet, Paris 1830 - Balm or balsam of Gilead, Commiphora gileadensis - Engraving by Lambert Junior drawing by Lambert from a by P-J-F-Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's “” La Flore Medicale,” Paris, Panckoucke, 1830 - / Bridgeman Images