Encyclopaedist posters & prints

Portrait of Pierre Larousse French Photographer

Portrait of Pierre Larousse French Photographer

Portraits of the Encyclopaedists Jean Le Rond d'Alembert and Denis Diderot 1751-72 French School

Portrait of Pierre Larousse Henri Joseph Dubouchet

Title page of Denis Diderot's Encyclopedie Anonymous

The Meeting of Encyclopédistes at Diderots Home, 1859 Anonymous

Portrait of Jean Le Rond d'Alembert 1753 Maurice Quentin de la Tour

Agriculture, plate I from the Encyclopaedia of Denis Diderot 1762 French School

Hugh Henry Brackenridge from 'Cyclopedia of American Literature', by Evert Augustus Duyckinck 1855 American School

Lily Encrinite Anonymous

Carolus Linnaeus, 18th century Swedish naturalist Unknown

The Distrest Poet William Hogarth

Map of the world, 'Atlantis in it's Decadence', published by the Theosophical Publishing Company School English

Posterior body margins of female Chionaspis salicis [Willow scale] and Chionaspis aspidistrae Robert Newstead

Discovering the Telescope Eduard Ender

Carolus Linnaeus, 18th century Swedish scientist and naturalist, 1874 Unknown

Johann Franz Encke, 19th century German astronomer Unknown

Carolus Linnaeus, Swedish naturalist, 1732 (early 19th century) William Home Lizars

Enoch Arnold Bennett, British novelist Anonymous

Carolus Linnaeus, 18th century Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist Anonymous

Discovery of San Domingo, from, 'Science and Literature in the Middle Ages and Renaissance', written and engraved by Paul Lacroix,... Christopher Columbus

Edmond Rostand, French poet and dramatist Anonymous

Darwin, Charles Robert (1809-1882) British naturalist. Colored engraving Anonymous

Charles Darwin (1809-1882), English naturalist, in his greenhouse Unknown

Herbert Spencer, English philosopher and sociologist, 1897 Anonymous

Richard Owen, British naturalist, c1856 (1891) Unknown

Thomas Pennant, 18th century British naturalist and traveller, c1840 Unknown

Luigi Palmieri, Italian geophysicist, 1893 Unknown

Frederic Passy, French economist and writer Anonymous

Evangelista Torricelli Invents Barometer Anonymous

Edmond de Goncourt, French author Anonymous

Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher Anonymous

Alexander von Humboldt, Prussian naturalist and explorer Anonymous

'The Naturalist's Library, Entomology, Vol V', Butterflies William Home Lizars

Thomas Pennant, 18th century British zoologist, writer and traveller, 1823 Unknown

Illustrations taken from 'A New Technical Educator: An Encyclopedia of Technical Education', published by Cassell, 1870 English School