Polymath posters & prints

Conrad Gesner Swiss School

Avicenna French School

John Selden, 1672 English School

Benjamin Franklin Unknown

Portrait of Erasmus of Rotterdam, 1530 Hans Holbein the Younger

Cruger's azimuth quadrant A Steck

Bust of Benjamin Franklin Jean-Jacques Caffieri

Aristotle with a Bust of Homer, 1653 Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn

Benjamin Franklin, c.1746 Robert Feke

Portrait of Dr Erasmus Darwin, scientist, inventor and poet, grandfather of Charles Darwin, 1792-93 Joseph Wright of Derby

Self Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci

Benjamin Franklin, 1778 John Trumbull

Voltaire reading 'L'Agent Litteraire', 1811 Jacques Augustin Catherine Pajou

Francis I, King of France, with Leonardo da Vinci, receiving a painting of the Holy Family sent from Rome by... Anicet-Charles Lemonnier

Takyuddin and other astronomers at the Galata observatory founded in 1557 by Sultan Suleyman Turkish School

Goethe Engraving Anonymous

Portrait of Jean Sylvain Bailly Boizot

John Dee, c.1594 British School