Chemists and workers operating distilling apparatus in a laboratory. Engraving by P. Galle after J. van der Straet. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13998855/image-cartoon-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseAn alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13997970/image-background-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain license[Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers] / par une sociéte de gens de lettres. Recueil… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13971911/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseA female figure with a castle on her head measures a globe with a compass; representing geometry. Engraving by A. Vallée… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14007305/image-cartoon-face-personFree Image from public domain licenseCyclopaedia: or, an universal dictionary of arts and sciences ... The whole intended as a course of antient and modern… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14016481/image-cartoon-face-personFree Image from public domain licenseA woman representing astrology or philosophy. Engraving by P. Ghigi after L. Agricola after Raphael. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14009813/image-angels-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseObservations d'aphémie pour servir a ̀la détermination du siège de la faculté de langage / par Ange Duval ; suivie de… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14006097/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseKlokkenmakers (c. 1589 - c. 1593) by Philips Galle, Jan van der Straet and Philips Galle https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13781752/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseRomani Collegii Societatus [sic] Jesu Musaeum celeberrimum ; cujus magnum antiquariæ rei, statuarum imagimun, picturarumque… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13981988/image-cartoon-person-churchFree Image from public domain licenseStandbeeld van Rubens op de Groenplaats in Antwerpen (1840) by Erin Corr, Willem Geefs and Société Royale des Sciences… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13783685/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain license[Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers] / par une sociéte de gens de lettres. Recueil… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13994669/image-cartoon-plant-personFree Image from public domain licenseOntwerp voor de decoratie Kunsten en Wetenschappen op de Noordermarkt (1795) by anonymous and Jurriaan Andriessen https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13785912/image-paper-cloud-cartoonFree Image from public domain licenseAn omniscient virtuoso gestures boastfully at all the knowledge that lies available to him. Etching by G.M. Mitelli, c. 1700. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13981750/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseHints designed to promote beneficence, temperance, and medical science / By John Coakley Lettsom. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14009143/image-cartoon-face-personFree Image from public domain licenseMichael Schüppach being consulted by a gentleman, who is grasped at the shoulders by a skeleton. Engraving by C. Mechel… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13997388/image-cartoon-person-bookFree Image from public domain licenseThe weekly medico-chirurgical and philosophical magazine : containing a select variety of the most recent intelligence… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14020022/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseTwo alchemists seeming to produce gold from a furnace; the accompanying text satirises those who pursue alchemy for gold… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13998567/image-cartoon-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseHistoire de l'Académie royale des sciences avec les mémoires de mathématique et physique. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14004242/image-cartoon-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseAn alchemist at his alembic; surrounded by vignettes of scientific pursuits. Wood engraving by Dalziel, 18--. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14017285/image-paper-cartoon-personFree Image from public domain licenseZijdebewerking (c. 1589 - c. 1593) by Philips Galle, Jan van der Straet and Philips Galle https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13781770/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseNatural and experimental philosophy: a group of seated men attending a lecture. Engraving by B. Cole. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13984093/image-cartoon-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseA group of figures from antiquity are led into a garden by a woman with a telescope and a hand mirror. Etching. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14014863/image-angels-cartoon-handFree Image from public domain licenseThe birth of mankynde : otherwyse named the womans booke. / Newly set forth, corrected, and augmented. Whose contentes ye… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14010688/image-cartoon-face-handFree Image from public domain licenseḤeleḳ riʼshon [shelishi] mispar ha-ʻolamot o maʻaśeh ṭoviyah / [Tobias Cohen]. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13982352/ele-rishon-shelishi-mispar-ha-olamot-maaseh-oviyah-tobias-cohenFree Image from public domain licenseBritannia is seated under a tree, surrounded by Science and Industry and presented with a cornucopia by a man with a spade;… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14015634/image-cartoon-person-bookFree Image from public domain licenseA young alchemist works a bellows at his furnace. Etching by T. Major, c. 1755, after D. Teniers the younger. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13988186/image-cartoon-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseChemists and workers operating distilling apparatus in a laboratory. Engraving by P. Galle after J. van der Straet. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13985814/image-person-art-hospitalFree Image from public domain licenseA noblewoman and two noblemen examining some gold produced by an alchemist. Engraving by G. Greatbach after A.H. Tourrier. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13986630/image-cartoon-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseA smartly dressed woman examining the head of a military man. Coloured etching attributed to W. Heath, ca 1830. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13979746/image-cartoon-person-bookFree Image from public domain licenseA hermit in devotion before the Cross, turning his back on children with instruments of arts and sciences (a lute, a… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13994348/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseLarge Centre-Piece in Silver by Claude Marie Ferrier and Hugh Owen https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14312657/large-centre-piece-silver-claude-marie-ferrier-and-hugh-owenFree Image from public domain licenseThe melancholy temperament: an anxious woman clasps her hands as an agitated man lies on the ground. Engraving by R.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14004007/image-cartoon-face-handsFree Image from public domain licenseThe Italian social fabric symbolised by a chain of social types, with all relations of dependence ultimately relating back… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14021852/image-paper-horse-cartoonFree Image from public domain licenseAnatomical measurements, supine figure, Chinese woodcut https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13989472/anatomical-measurements-supine-figure-chinese-woodcutFree Image from public domain licenseThe human ear: the anatomy of the inner ear, as seen through above and through the skull. Engraving by T. Milton, 1808. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13981000/image-paper-cartoon-personFree Image from public domain licenseA female figure book keeping; representing arithmetic. Engraving by J. Sadeler after M. de Vos. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13989913/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseThe base of the human skull, seen from above (in section) and below, with outline diagrams included beneath. Etching by… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13995226/image-person-art-patternFree Image from public domain licenseA woman representing philosophy. Etching by B. Audran the elder, c. 1700, after Raphael. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14014612/image-angels-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseTwo dustmen are sitting at a table in a coffee house: one is reading parliamentary reports in the newspaper supplied by the… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13995629/image-paper-cartoon-personFree Image from public domain licenseSkeleton: seen from the front, diagram showing the outlines of the bones. Line engraving by Campbell, 1816/1821. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13996904/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseAnatomia esterna del corpo umano per uso de' pittori, e scultori delineata / ed incisa de E. Lelli con la denotazione delle… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13988888/image-cartoon-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseA young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13993449/image-background-paper-cartoonFree Image from public domain licenseInwijding van Felix Meritis, 1788 (1799) by Reinier Vinkeles I and Jacobus Buys https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13783811/inwijding-van-felix-meritis-1788-1799-reinier-vinkeles-and-jacobus-buysFree Image from public domain licenseScience: putti undertaking various experiments in an open temple or rotunda, presided over by Scientia. Engraving, c.1750. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14021719/image-paper-cartoon-personFree Image from public domain licenseThe chemical laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston: women and men at class. Wood engraving, c. 1880. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14014300/image-person-book-artFree Image from public domain licenseA new and complete illustration of the celestial science of astrology ... / [E. Sibly]. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13979634/image-face-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseMrs. Isaac Roberts, née Dorothea Klumpke, Doctor ès Sciences from the University of Paris, first woman awarded a doctorate… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14008032/image-face-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseArs magna sciendi, in XII libros digesta, qua nova et universali methodo per artificiosum combinationum contextum de omni re… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14017072/image-cartoon-person-churchFree Image from public domain licenseGyri of the brain: three figures, one of a European, one of the "Hottentot Venus", and one of an African Bushwoman.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13983775/image-tree-pattern-public-domainFree Image from public domain licenseAnthropologia nova, or, a new system of anatomy / [Appendix]. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13976545/anthropologia-nova-or-new-system-anatomy-appendixFree Image from public domain licenseThe Académie des Sciences, Paris: two medals. Line engraving. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14013428/the-academie-des-sciences-paris-two-medals-line-engravingFree Image from public domain licensePhysiognomie and chiromancie, metoposcopie, the symmetrical proportions and signal moles of the body, fully and accurately… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14018584/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseIllustration emphasizing the ancient pseudo-science of physiognomy which tries to determine a man's character from his… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13986949/image-dog-paper-cartoonFree Image from public domain licenseAnatomical measurements, supine figure, Chinese woodcut https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13971474/anatomical-measurements-supine-figure-chinese-woodcutFree Image from public domain licenseA female figure with a vacuum pump; representing physics or 'natural philosophy'. Stipple engraving, 1795, after C-N. Cochin… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13975705/image-face-person-artFree Image from public domain license[Encyclopédie, ou dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers] / par une sociéte de gens de lettres. Recueil… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13994396/image-paper-cartoon-personFree Image from public domain licenseThree scenes illustrating the vanity of doctors. Lithograph by Béraud. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13971373/three-scenes-illustrating-the-vanity-doctors-lithograph-beraudFree Image from public domain licenseA mathematician draws a semi-circle while Minerva watches over him. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1591, after M. de Vos. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13978120/image-cartoon-face-personFree Image from public domain licenseBrain of a broadfronted crocodile: figures showing dissections of the brain. Watercolour and ink with pencil, possibly by D.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14014586/image-paper-cartoon-personFree Image from public domain licenseAndreae Vesalii Bruxellensis, scholae medicorum Patauinae professoris De humani corporis fabrica libri septem. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14018197/image-paper-person-bookFree Image from public domain licenseAn old man rests his head on his hand; cherubs play in a room filled with mechanical instruments; representing mechanical… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14009083/image-angels-hand-personFree Image from public domain licenseA man being weighed on a set of scales, and a man with his head in a glass container; showing Lavoisier's experiments with… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13976759/image-cartoon-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseA female figure representing science trimming the lamp of life. Engraving by A. R. Freebairn, 1849, after W. Wyon. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14003014/image-person-art-circleFree Image from public domain licenseMeeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science at York, 1844, with vignettes of its officers. Wood… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13999185/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseChirurgiae ... libri septem, quamplurimis instrumentorum imaginibus arti chirurgicae opportunis suis locis exornata… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13989775/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseA young woman, perhaps Prudentia, warns an alchemist of the dangers of abusing fire: in the background fires rage in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13991685/image-background-cartoon-personFree Image from public domain licenseAstronomy: two rococo allegorical compositions about the art and sciences, and on the stars. Engraving. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14001915/image-stars-paper-cartoonFree Image from public domain licenseThe black death: map of the world, with vignettes. Watercolour by Monro S. Orr. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14002894/the-black-death-map-the-world-with-vignettes-watercolour-monro-orrFree Image from public domain licenseD'une nouvelle espèce de tumeurs bénignes des os : ou, Tumeurs à myéloplaxes / par Eugène Nélaton. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14020101/image-paper-cartoon-personFree Image from public domain licenseIllustration emphasizing the ancient pseudo-science of physiognomy which tries to determine a man's character from his… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13993204/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseAtlas of head sections : fifty-three engraved copperplates of frozen sections of the head and fifty-three key plates with… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13993748/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseThe pardoxal [sic] discourses of M.F. van Helmont, concerning the macrocosm and microcosm: or, the greater and lesser world… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13996996/image-paper-cartoon-personFree Image from public domain licenseExperimenta nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de vacuo spatio, primùm à r. p. Gaspare Schotto ... nunc verò ab ipso auctore… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13999630/image-cartoon-person-skyFree Image from public domain licenseAn écorché, seen from the front: diagram showing the outlines of the muscles. Line engraving by Campbell, 1816/1821. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13981380/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseNatural and experimental philosophy: gentlemen attending to a lecture. Engraving, 1748. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13997871/image-cartoon-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseThe animal kingdom arranged after its organization. Forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13988214/image-cartoon-face-personFree Image from public domain licenseA group of musicians; representing the sense of hearing. Engraving by A. Bosse, c. 1650. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14000281/image-cartoon-person-artFree Image from public domain licensePhilosophia sacra et vere Christiana, seu meteorologia cosmica / Robert Fludd. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13997417/philosophia-sacra-vere-christiana-seu-meteorologia-cosmica-robert-fluddFree Image from public domain licenseFigures representing the investigation of nature; in the background, Pliny the elder being killed while investigating… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13979817/image-background-cartoon-personFree Image from public domain licenseAnatomiae, hoc est, corporis humani dissectionis pars prior, in qua singula quae ad caput spectant recensentur membra, atque… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13981637/image-cartoon-person-bookFree Image from public domain licenseA sailor, proposed as a member of a society in which masks are worn at meetings, makes enquiries to its chairman using… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13979908/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseAstronomy: a muse shows a treatise on the stars to a ruler, surrounded by putti with attributes of the arts and sciences, in… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14005176/image-background-stars-cartoonFree Image from public domain licenseThe anatomy of the arteries of the human body and its applications to pathology and operative surgery with a series of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13980116/image-face-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseA procession of historical figures accompanying a car on which Time sits measuring the globe; representing the triumph of… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14005435/image-dog-angels-horseFree Image from public domain licenseThree perspectives of a skull sectioned and labelled according to an unorthodox system of phrenology. Pen drawing, 18--. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13982137/image-paper-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseA treatise on aphasia and other speech defects / by H. Charlton Bastian. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13997266/treatise-aphasia-and-other-speech-defects-charlton-bastianFree Image from public domain licenseTwo merchants and a woman at a table; representing arithmetic. Etching by C. Schut after himself. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13974879/image-angels-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseA female figure at an easel is helped by another with a compass; representing perspective and geometry in art. Coloured… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13972893/image-cartoon-face-personFree Image from public domain licenseAbbé Jean-Antoine Nollet demonstrating chemical experiments to a party of ladies and gentlemen. Engraving, ca. 1750. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13993788/image-cartoon-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseIn Galeni librum de ossibus doctissima et expectatissima commentaria, nunc primùm sedulò in lucem edita, et aptè naturam… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14016745/image-paper-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseAn essay on electricity. Explaining the principles of that useful science : and describing the instruments, contrived either… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14013411/image-person-art-technologyFree Image from public domain licenseA female figure with a vacuum pump; representing physics. Etching by C.L. de Lingée after C-N. Cochin the younger, c. 1773. https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14019717/image-cartoon-face-personFree Image from public domain licenseWisdom shows Britannia the measurements of the globe; figures representing other continents stand watching. Engraving by W.… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14017014/image-cartoon-person-artFree Image from public domain licenseFigures with measuring instruments and a cannon; representing geometry and military science. Etching by C. Schut after… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13992062/image-horse-cartoon-faceFree Image from public domain licenseSidereus, nuncius magna longeqve admirabilia spectacula... https://www.rawpixel.com/image/14018686/sidereus-nuncius-magna-longeqve-admirabilia-spectaculaFree Image from public domain licenseA bearded old man and a young woman representing Philosophy and Art respectively: he points to a book about mechanics and… https://www.rawpixel.com/image/13995630/image-face-jesus-christ-personFree Image from public domain license