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Johannes Hevelius' 150 foot refracting telescope

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Explore over 10,000 high resolution images of paintings, drawings and prints, hand-picked from our historic picture collections.

Robert Hooke FRS
Copperplate engravings from our recently conserved first edition of Hooke's Micrographia

John Smeaton FRS
Working drawings of civil engineer John Smeaton

William Hamilton FRS
Engravings documenting William Hamilton's travels around the Campi Phlegraei region of Naples

Phillip Henry Gosse FRS
Chromolithographs from the book The aquarium: an unveiling of the wonders of the deep sea, 1854

Elizabeth Blackwell
Botanical specimens from Scottish illustrator and engraver Elizabeth Blackwell