Voltaire (page 4)

The Baron... saluted Candide with some notable kicks on the breech and drove him out of doors Jean Michel the Younger Moreau

Newton's experiment splitting white light into the colours of the spectrum by a prism, 1757 Unknown

Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) James McArdell

Portrait of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) James McArdell

The cries proceeded from two young women who were tripping disrobed among the mead, while two monkeys followed close at... Charles Monnet

French Revolution: The invention of the red cap Anonymous

Philippe Ricord, French surgeon and venereologist, 1867 Andre Gill

Portrait of Pierre Louis Dulong (1785-1838) Formentin

Le défenseur de Calas consolé, 1871 Honoré Daumier

The salon of litterature at Madame Geoffrin's mansion Anonymous

Extract of a letter from Lord Orrery to Dr Birch John Boyle

Candide, chapitre 16. Tandis que deux singes les suivaient en leur mordant les fesses, 1911 Anonymous

Candide, chapitre 16. Tandis que deux singes les suivaient en leur mordant les fesses, 1911 Anonymous

Elles Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Plate 77 from 'Los Caprichos':What one does to another, 1799 Francisco Goya

A voltigeur Anonymous

Portrait of Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon, 1746 Jacques Andre Joseph Camelot Aved

The Cafe Procope Kretz

Dinner table at Sanssouci, 1850 Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel

Frederick the Great Arthur C. Michael

Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist, demonstrating his electric pile (battery), c1800 (c1870) Unknown