Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Pierre Belon (15171564) renaissance French explorer, naturalist, writer and diplomat. He worked on a range of topics including ichthyology, ornithology, botany, comparative anatomy, archit...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of Pierre Belon (15171564) renaissance French explorer, naturalist, writer and diplomat. He worked on a range of topics including ichthyology, ornithology, botany, comparative anatomy, archit...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut illustration of dolphin's placenta, skull and birth by Gesner. Gesner 'Icones Animalium', 1560. Generally animals were grouped by habitat, so dolphins were thought of as fish. However Gesner d...

Paul D Stewart / Woodcut by Gesner 'Icones Animalium', 1560. Gesner and his contemporaries believed marine mammals were fish based on habitat. However Gesner did note that unlike fish they have no scales, give birth a...

Paul D Stewart / Portrait of the Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522-1605) Italian scientist, in particular a naturalist and physician. He taught in Bologna and his work 'Antidotarii Bononiensis Epitome' (1574) described the prop...

Angelo Gandolfi / St. Peter's Basilica, with gathered crowds in foreground, Rome, Italy. December 2009

Angelo Gandolfi / St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City, Rome. December 2009

Will Watson / Powis Castle and with late renaissance terrace gardens and clipped Yew trees (Taxus baccata), Welshpool, Powys, Wales, UK, July 2008

Paul D Stewart / 1731 illustration from Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) folio copper engraving of the fifth day of creation (with later hand colouring) drawn by a team of engravers unde...

Paul D Stewart / Johann Jakob Scheuchzer (born August 2nd 1672 - died June 23rd 1733). Swiss traveller naturalist and geologist. Contemporary Folio size Portrait copper engraving at 59 years old (1731) from Physica Sa...

Paul D Stewart / 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) the fourth day of creation folio copper engraving (with later hand colouring) drawn by a team of engravers under the direction of J...

Paul D Stewart / 1731 Physica Sacra (Sacred Physics) by Johann Scheuchzer (1672-1733) loading the Ark, folio copper engraving drawn by a team of engravers under the direction of Johann Andreas Pfeffel (1674-1748). The...