Kepler's concept of an attractive force from the Sun - a 'virtue', early 16th century. Johannes Kepler's (1571-1630) idea of 'gravity' by which he hoped to...
Johannes Stabius map of the world, 1515, (1936). A print from Durer, Und Seine Zeit, by Wilhelm Waetzoldt, Grosse Phaidon Ausgabe, 1936
Smelting of copper: making liquation cakes by reducing copper in furnaces and alloying with lead, 1683. From an English edition of German metallurgist Lazarus...
Surveying, 1551. Triangulation with a hinged staff. Readings were taken from two points a measured distance apart. From Rudimenta Mathematica by Sebastian...
Johann Gutenberg, German metalworker and inventor, 16th century, (1870). An engraving of Johannes Gutenberg (1400-1468) who invented a method of printing from...
Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist and physician. Fuchs (1501-1556) botanical work Historia Stirpium, published in 1542 is regarded as a landmark in the...
'Young Scandinavian Elk with Immature Antlers', late 15th-early 16th century (1913). A print from The Connoisseur, (London, 1913)
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) German astronomer. Engraving c1903
'Map of the Southern Sky', 1515, (1936). Map of the Southern Sky, with representations of constellations, decorated with the crest of Cardinal Lang von...
Peter Apian (Petrus Apianus 1495-1552) German mathematician and astronomer Copperplate engraving
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) German astronomer, left, with Tycho Brahe (1564-1601) Danish astronomer at work in Benatky observatory near Prague while in the...
Georgius Agricola (Georg Bauer - 1494-1555) German physician, mineralogist and metallurgist. Author of ""De re metallica"", Basel 1556
Peter Apian ( Petrus Apianus 1495-1552) German mathematician and astronomer. Title page of his ""Isagoge in Typum Cosmographicum seu Mappam Mundi"", Landshut
Georgius Agricola (1494-1555), German physician, mineralogist and metallurgist, c1890. Agricola (christened Georg Bauer) was the author of De re metallica
Dr Faustus (1488-1541) conjuring up Mephistopheles. Faust formed subject of dramas by Christopher Marlowe and Goethe. Goethe version basis for Gounod's opera
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) German astronomer. Engraving
Surveying, 1551. Obtaining the height of a building by the use of a cross-staff. From Rudimenta Mathematica by Sebastian Munster. (Basel, 1551)
Georgius Agricola (1494-1555), German physician, mineralogist and metallurgist, 1881. Agricola (christened Georg Bauer) was the author of De re metallica (Basel
Peter Apian ( Petrus Apianus 1495-1552) German mathematician and astronomer. Title page of his ""Quadrans Apiani"", 1532, showing his recently invented quadrant
Georgius Agricola, 16th century German physician, mineralogist and metallurgist. Agricola (christened Georg Bauer) (1494-1555) was the author of De re metallica
Amputation of a leg without anaesthetic, 1593. A surgeon uses a bow-saw to remove a patient's leg blow the knee while his assistant holds the foot
Peter Apian (1495-1552), German geographer, mathematician and astronomer. Apian established his reputation by issuing a world map in 1520, and the publication
Andreas Osiander, 16th century German Lutheran theologian, 17th century. Osiander (1498-1552) was Professor of Theology at Konigsberg and was responsible for...
'Apparatus for translating three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional drawings', 1525, (1936). Two scenes from the artist's first technical book...
Heinrich Khunrath (c1560-1605) German chemist and alchemist, 1725. Khunrath (c1560-1605) was born in Leipzig. From Icones Virorum
The Philosopher's Stone from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphiteatrum sapientiae aeternae.n.d. Creator: Attributed to Peter van der Doort (born Antwerp
Surveying, 1551. Quadrant with plumb bob and shadow scale being used to obtain the altitude of a tower. From Rudimenta Mathematica by Sebastian Munster
Washing ore to extract gold, 1683. Water is fed into a sieve (2) containing ore. The muddy solution is then fed along wooden collecting troughs
Title page of Quadrans Apiani by German mathematician and astronomer Peter Apian, 1532. The illustration shows his recently invented quadrant
'Nikolaus Kopernikus', (1933). Creator: Unknown
'Paracelsus', (1493-1541), 1830. Creator: Unknown
The Alchemist's Laboratory from Heinrich Khunrath, Amphiteatrum sapientiae aeternae.n.d. Creator: Attributed to Peter van der Doort (born Antwerp
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