Making Visible

Carriage design, ca.1665
RS.16189

'The gallies and their manner of rowing', 1684-1685
RS.17474

Weather clock, 9 December 1663
RS.17404

Double-bottomed ship, 28 January 1663
RS.17377

Lobster and Calligraphy, 17th century
RS.17198

The choice between science and worldly temptation, ca.1610s
RS.17153

Broken vase from antiquity, 17th century
RS.17048

Diving bell and suit, 6 April 1692
RS.16998

Frontispiece to the third part of Scheuchzer's Helveticus, sive itineris alpini (1708), 1704
RS.16951

Meadow grass, 1703
RS.16933

Ouroboros, dragon eating its own tail, 1573
RS.16884

Intaglio print of heart, 1748
RS.16445

Two fruits, late 17th - early 18th century
RS.16428

Prickly sow-thistle with jagged leaves, 1689-1713
RS.16369

Egyptian chameleon, November 1686
RS.16331

Alchemical installation, ca.early 17th century
RS.16318

On galls - four figures, 21 June 1678
RS.16289

Five figures of exterior of silk moth, 5 January 1669
RS.16270

Model of Saturn, ca.17th century
RS.16012

Volvelle, late 17th century
RS.16010

Nautilus, 20 January 1697
RS.15936

A cart with legs, 11 March 1663
RS.15878

Reflecting telescope, 6 January 1672
RS.15841

Spermatozoa of a ram, 25 December 1700
RS.15788

Seeds from the kapok tree, 10 June 1686
RS.15774

Rat sperm, 5 April 1680
RS.15736

Ring of Saturn, 14 August 1675
RS.15688

Elizabeth Travers, with swollen breasts, 19 July 1669
RS.15590

Fallopian tube, 15 January 1694
RS.15562

Paper cutting of Saturn, 16 November 1665
RS.15551

Process of cheese-making, 17th century
RS.15405

Felt-makers at work, 17th century
RS.15310

Way to manage long telescopes, 17th century
RS.15299

Apparatus for fetching up water from any depth of the sea, 30 September 1663
RS.15289

Dissection of a parakeet, 5 December 1688
RS.15196

Observations of a Surinam toad, 18th century
RS.15195

French youth with horns on his hands and feet, 24 May 1678
RS.15188

Conjoined twins, 28 October 1670
RS.14975

Locusts, 4 September 1693
RS.14656

Study of the fangs and teeth of a viper, 2 November 1664
RS.14289

Figures of snow, 10 December 1662
RS.14225

Parhelia, 7 April 1674
RS.15047