Historical artwork

PHOTO: MUZEUM NIEPODLEGLOSCI/EAST NEWS Przebieg dziejow Pomorza Polskiego 994-1919.

Engravings by de St Morien after Cecile, Fevre and Jollois showing a flour mill (8-10); threshing machine (2, 3); rice whitening machine (4-7); and a...

Engravings by Louvet and de St Morien after Cecile, showing a man feeding sugar cane into a press powered by a blindfolded ox, with plans and elevatio...

Engravings by Bosq and Mme de St Morien after Cecile, from ?Description de l'Egypte, ou Recueil des observations et des recherches qui ont ete faites...

Engraving by de Buigne after Protain, showing interior views, elevations and plans of the baths. From ?Description de l'Egypte, ou Recueil des observa...

Print on paper of Tabula XVII from the anatomical treatise 'Schola et Historia Medicinae' by William Rowley (1742-1806). Edition by Royce c1850s. Hu...

Print on paper of Tabula IX from the anatomical treatise 'Schola et Historia Medicinae' by William Rowley (1742-1806). Edition by Royce c.1850s. Human...

Print engraving, with Mss. keys added lhs. Anatomical drawing /Ame Bourdon, engraved by Daniel le Bossu and published by Laurens D'Houry, Paris 1678....

Print on paper of Tabula X from the anatomical treatise 'Schola et Historia Medicinae' by William Rowley (1742-1806). Edition by Royce c1850s. Human...

Print engraving, with Mss. keys added lhs. Anatomical drawing /Ame Bourdon, engraved by Daniel le Bossu and published by Laurens D'Houry, Paris 1678....

Print engraving, with Mss. keys added lhs. Anatomical drawing /Ame Bourdon, engraved by Daniel le Bossu and published by Laurens D'Houry, Paris 1678....

Plant cell structure. Artwork of a sectioned plant cell. The features that distinguish a plant cell from an animal cell are the cell wall and the chlo...

The frontispiece of Epistolarum, which Tycho Brahe published himself in 1596, shows the famous mural quadrant used for his observation.

The frontispiece of Epistolarum, which Tycho Brahe published himself in 1596, shows the famous mural quadrant used for his observation.

The frontispiece of Epistolarum, which Tycho Brahe published himself in 1596, shows the famous mural quadrant used for his observation.

Broadside of the 1835 apparition of Halley's comet. Woodcut.

Comets universally foretold disasters and misfortune until the start of the scientific revolution. For example, public fears linked the Great Comet of...

As astronomers began to explore the physical nature of comets, they found that meteors came from dust left by comets. Major meteor showers such as the...

An illustration ridiculing the practice of astrology.

An engraving showing Arab astrologers using early astronomical instruments.

Broadside of the 1835 apparition of Halley's comet. Woodcut.

Broadside of the 1835 apparition of Halley's comet. Woodcut.

Comets universally foretold disasters and misfortune until the start of the scientific revolution. For example, public fears linked the Great Comet of...

Comets universally foretold disasters and misfortune until the start of the scientific revolution. For example, public fears linked the Great Comet of...

As astronomers began to explore the physical nature of comets, they found that meteors came from dust left by comets. Major meteor showers such as the...

As astronomers began to explore the physical nature of comets, they found that meteors came from dust left by comets. Major meteor showers such as the...

As astronomers began to explore the physical nature of comets, they found that meteors came from dust left by comets. Major meteor showers such as the...

An illustration ridiculing the practice of astrology.

An illustration ridiculing the practice of astrology.

A rendering of the reflecting telescope used by William Herschel, the discoverer of the planet Uranus. Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

A rendering of the reflecting telescope used by William Herschel, the discoverer of the planet Uranus. Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

A rendering of the reflecting telescope used by William Herschel, the discoverer of the planet Uranus. Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Herschel's galactic model, 1784. This is one of several visualizations drawn by the British astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822). Working with his...

Herschel's galactic model, 1784. This is one of several visualizations drawn by the British astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822). Working with his...

Herschel's galactic model, 1784. This is one of several visualizations drawn by the British astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822). Working with his...

Anonymous watercolor depicting the comet of 1680 over the Low Countries.

Anonymous watercolor depicting the comet of 1680 over the Low Countries.

A rendering of the reflecting telescope used by William Herschel, the discoverer of the planet Uranus. Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Herschel's galactic model, 1784. This is one of several visualizations drawn by the British astronomer William Herschel (1738-1822). Working with his...

Anonymous watercolor depicting the comet of 1680 over the Low Countries.

Apparatus of Johannes Hevelius (about 1640), used for studying the sun. Hevelius, a German astronomer, was also noted for his map of the moon and his...

Demonstration at Cologne Cathedral of the Earth's rotation.

Demonstration at Cologne Cathedral of the Earth's rotation.

Constellation of Leo.

Hevelius's book on comets. Title page of Cometographia (1668), by the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius. The artwork shows three astronomers represe...

Demonstration at Cologne Cathedral of the Earth's rotation.

Hevelius's book on comets. Title page of Cometographia (1668), by the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius. The artwork shows three astronomers represe...

As Samuel Colt originally envisioned his repeating pistol in the patent drawing above, it was to have chambers for 10 cartridges. Other changes, inclu...

As Samuel Colt originally envisioned his repeating pistol in the patent drawing above, it was to have chambers for 10 cartridges. Other changes, inclu...

The hierarchy of the universe, by Robert Fludd, 1617. The soul descends from perfect unity in the heavens to multiplicity on earth, but seeks to re-as...