Charles Estienne (1504-1564), De Dissectione Partium Corporis Humani Libri Tres, Paris 1545
Early advances in anatomy
William Harvey (1578-1657), Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis, Frankfurt 1628
What the heart really does
Manṣūr ibn Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Yūsuf ibn Ilyās (14th century), Tashrih-i Mansuri [The Anatomy of Mansur of Shiraz]
The human body in Islamic medicine
Sir Archibald Geikie (1835-1924), watercolour of the Shiant Isles, 1893-4
The art of geology
Album of preserved samples of Scottish mosses, c.1828
Botany – the art of preservation
Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911), The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage of H.M. Discovery Ships Erebus and Terror, in the years 1839-1843, London 1844-60
Green life in the southern oceans
Moses Harris, The Aurelian or, Natural History of English Insects; Namely, Moths and Butterflies, London 1778
Collecting the beautiful
Euclid (c.300 BC), Elementa Geometriae, Venice 1482 and Elements of Geometry, manuscript, 19th century
The shape of the idea
Roslin Institute Collection, glass positive slides, early 20th century
International travel and pig breeding – a unique visual record