Explores Collection

Mary in Secret Garden
Mary explores the gardens of Misselthwaite Manor

Portrait of Thomas Henry Huxley, 1825 - 1895, English biologist and anthropologist, specialized in comparative anatomy, frontispiece to his book „Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature", 1863

Young Gents
February 1958: Eleven year old Major Thompson, dressed as a future diplomat, explores Kensington Gardens in London with his nanny and two friends. (Photo by Russell Knight/BIPs/Getty Images)

Picture series puzzle, find in this monogram the name of one of the most famous scholars and inventors (Liebig), Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collection picture from ca 1900

Series Explorer and world traveller, Adolf Erik Freiherr von Nordenskioeld, in 1878/79 the first seafarer to circumnavigate Europe and Asia, crossing the Northeast Passage, Liebig image

Series Explorers and World Travellers, Ferdinand Magellan, first voyage around the world, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from around 1900, public domain

Series Explorers and World Travellers, Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, a French-Italian naval officer and Africa traveller, Liebig picture

Series Explorers and World Travellers, Alexander von Humboldt exploring Brazil, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from around 1900, public domain

Series Explorers and World Travellers, Emin Pasha in the Interior of Africa, Eduard Karl Oskar Theodor Schnitzer, known as Emin Pasha

Series Explorers and World Travellers, Robert and Hermann Schlaginweit on an expedition in the Himalayas, travelling as scientists, explorers and mountaineers, Liebig image

Picture series Famous Caves, Mammoth Grotto, River Styx, America, Liebig picture, digitally restored reproduction of a collector's picture from ca 1900, public domain, exact date unknown

Denison Olmsted (1791-1859), American physicist and astronomer, known for his observations of hail, meteors and auroras

Lord William Thomson Kelvin, 1824-1907, British physicist and mathematician, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Rudolf Weinwurm (born 3 April 1835 in Scheideldorf near Waidhofen an der Thaya)
Rudolf Weinwurm (born 3 April 1835 in Scheideldorf near Waidhofen an der Thaya, Lower Austria, died 26 May 1911 in Vienna) was an Austrian lawyer, musicologist, choirmaster and composer, Historic

Franz Joseph Gerstner, since 1810 Ritter von Gerstner (* 22 February 1756 in Komotau)
Franz Joseph Gerstner, since 1810 Ritter von Gerstner (* 22 February 1756 in Komotau, † 25 June 1832 in Mladejov) was an important German-Bohemian mathematician, astronomer and physicist

Hermann Rollett (born 20 August 1819 in Baden near Vienna)
Hermann Rollett (born 20 August 1819 in Baden near Vienna, died 30 May 1904) was an Austrian poet of the Vormaerz, museum director, local politician, art writer and local historian, Historical

Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen (1845-1923), German physicist: X-rays. Nobel Prize for Physics 1901, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

Thomas Young (1773-1829) English physicist and Egyptologist. Undulatory (wave) theory of light. Deciphering the Rosetta Stone

Thomas Young (1773-1829), English physicist and Egyptologist. Undulation theory (wave theory) of light. Decipherment of the Rosetta Stone

Jean Philippe Rameau (1683-1764), French composer and musicologist, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated

John Winthrop (1714-1779) American physicist, mathematician and astronomer. In 1740 he observed a transit of Mercury

Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902) was a German pathologist and founder of cell pathology. He later devoted himself to anthropology and archaeology and worked with Schliemann on the excavations at Troy

Rudolph Virchow (1821-1902) German pathologist and founder of cell pathology. He later devoted himself to anthropology and archaeology and worked with Schliemann on the excavations at Troy

Margaret Bondfield (1873-1953) English Labour politician

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) Norwegian polar explorer, scientist and diplomat. Nobel Peace Prize 1920

David Brewster (1781-1868) Scottish physicist. Optics (kaleidoscope and polarised light), editor of the Edinburgh Magazine in 1802 and the Edinburgh Encyclopaedia in 1808

Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Record date not stated, Blaise Pascal (* 19 June 1623 in Clermont-Ferrand)

Ernest Renan, 28 February 1823, 2 October 1892, was a French writer, historian, archaeologist, religious scholar and orientalist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Carl August von Steinheil, 12 October 1801, 12 September 1870, was a German physicist, astronomer, optician and entrepreneur, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Sir Henry Morton Stanley, John Rowlands in Denbigh, 28 January 1841, 10 May 1904, was a British-American journalist, African explorer and author

Rene-Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur, 28 February 1683 - 17 October 1757, was a French naturalist and materials scientist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Eduard Karl Oskar Theodor Schnitzer, known as Emin Pasha, 28 March 1840, 23 October 1892, was an African explorer and governor of the province of Equatoria in the Turkish-Egyptian Sudan, Historical

Michael Faraday, 22 September 1791, 25 August 1867, an English natural scientist who is considered one of the most important experimental physicists, Historical

Elisha Kent Kane (born 3 February 1820)
Elisha Kent Kane (born 3 February 1820, died 16 February 1857) was an American explorer, discoverer and physician, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, 6 December 1778, 9 May 1850, was a French chemist and physicist

Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss, Carolus Fridericus Gauss, 30 April 1777, 23 February 1855, was a German mathematician, statistician, astronomer, geodesist and physicist, Historical

Galileo Galilei, 15 February 1564, 8 January 1642, was an Italian polymath

Joseph Fraunhofer, Ritter von Fraunhofer since 1824, 6 March 1787 - 7 June 1826, was a German optician and physicist, monument in Munich, Germany, Historical

Sir John Franklin, 15 April 1786, 11 June 1847, was a British rear admiral, polar explorer and lieutenant governor of Van Diemens Land, now Tasmania, Historical

Otto Guericke, from 1666 von Guericke, 30 November 1602, 21 May 1686, a German politician, lawyer, physicist and inventor, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Camille Saint-Saens, Charles Camille Saint-Saens, (9 October 1835 - 16 December 1921) was a French pianist, conductor, organist, musicologist, music teacher and composer of the Romantic period

Sir Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford, Earl of Rumford, (26 March 1753, 21 August 1814) was a British officer, politician, experimental physicist and inventor

Karl Wenzeslaus Rodeckher von Rotteck, 18 July 1775, 26 November 1840, was a German political scientist, historian and liberal politician, Historical

Friedrich Gerhard Rohlfs, 14 April 1831, 2 June 1896, was a German African explorer and writer, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

John Hanning Speke, 3 May 1827, 15 September 1864, a British explorer of Africa, after whom Mount Speke, a mountain range in Uganda, is named, Historical

Angelo Secchi, 28 June 1818, 26 February 1878, was an Italian Jesuit, physicist and astronomer

Georg August Schweinfurth, 29 December 1836, 19 September 1925, was a Russian-Baltic German explorer of Africa, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Helmholtz, from 1883 von Helmholtz, 31 August 1821, 8 September 1894, a German physiologist and physicist

Christian Huygens, 14 April 1629, 8 July 1695, also Christianus Hugenius, was a Dutch astronomer, mathematician and physicist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

August Wilhelm Hofmann, from 1888 von Hofmann, 8 April 1818, 5 May 1892, a German chemist and decisive pioneer for the research of aniline dyes in England and Germany, Historical

Tycho Brahe, Tycho de Brahe, 14 December 1546, 24 October 1601, a Danish nobleman and one of the most important astronomers, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Friedrich Theodor Vischer, from 1870 von Vischer, 30 June 1807, 14 September 1887, pseudonyms Philipp U

Carl August von Steinheil, 12 October 1801, 12 September 1870, a German physicist, astronomer, optician and entrepreneur, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Johann Ludwig Uhland, 26 April 1787, 13 November 1862, a German poet, literary scholar, jurist and politician, here at the age of seven, Historical

The monument of Fraunhofer in Munich, Germany, in 1887, Joseph Fraunhofer, Knight of Fraunhofer since 1824, 6 March 1787, 7 June 1826, a German optician and physicist, Historical

A worktable from the laboratory in Leipzig, Germany, in 1870, historical, digital reproduction of an original 19th century model, Europe

David Livingstone, 19 March 1813, 1 May 1873, a Scottish missionary and African explorer, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1 July 1742, 24 February 1799, a physicist, naturalist, mathematician, writer and the first German professor of experimental physics in the Age of Enlightenment

Johann Heinrich Jung, Jung-Stilling, 12 September 1740, 2 April 1817, German ophthalmologist, constitutional lawyer, economist and pietistic, mystical-spiritualist writer, Historical

Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu, 12 April 1748, 17 September 1836, a French botanist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Georg Agricola or Georgius Agricola, Georg farmer, 24 March 1494, 21 November 1555, a German physician, pharmacist and scientist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Andre-Marie Ampere, 20 January 1775, 10 June 1836, was a French physicist and mathematician, Historical, historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Baron Hans Philipp Werner von und zu Aufsess, 7 September 1801, 6 May 1872, a German antiquarian and founder of the Germanic Museum in Nuremberg, Historical, historical

Dominique Francois Jean Arago, 26 February 1786, 2 October 1853, French astronomer, physicist and politician, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Archimedes of Syracuse, c. 287 BC, 212 BC, a Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Elisha Kent Kane, 3 February 1820, 16 February 1857, an American explorer, discoverer and physician, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Johannes Kepler, Keppler, 27 December 1571, 15 November 1630, a German astronomer and physicist, mathematician, natural philosopher, historical

Gustav Robert Kirchhoff, 12 March 1824, 17 October 1887, a German physicist, Historical, digital reproduction of an original from the 19th century

Edward Spencer (born 1799), English lawyer who accompanied the balloonist Charles Green on many ascents

Joseph Beete Jukes (1811-1869), British geologist and favourite pupil of Adam Sedgwick. From The Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875)

John Macculloch (1773-1835) Scottish geologist, chemist and physician. President of the Royal Geological Society 1816-1817. From The Life of Sir Roderick I

John Phillips (1800-1874), British geologist, nephew of the geologist William Smith (1769-1839). From The Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875)

Richard John Griffith (1784-1878) Anglo-Irish geologist and civil engineer. From The Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875)

Henry Thomas de la Beche (1796-1855), British geologist. President of the Royal Geological Society in 1847. From The Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875)

Thomas Davidson (1817-1885), British palaeontologist. From The Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875)

Edward Forbes (1815-1854), British geologist. Professor of Botany, Kings College London. President of the Royal Geological Society in 1853. From The Life of Sir Roderick I

Andrew Crombie Ramsay (1814-1891), British geologist. Professor of Geology at University College London 1847. President of the Royal Geological Society 1862-1864. From The Life of Sir Roderick I

Clay (1802-1879) English comedian and playwright, born in Hoxton, Logy, Canada (1863). From The Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875)

John Playfair (1748-1819), mathematician and geologist, born in Benvie, Argyll, Scotland. From The Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875)

William Daniel Conybeare (1787-1857), British geologist. The first to describe Ichthyosaurus. From The Life of Sir Roderick I. Murchison by Archibald Geikie (London, 1875)

William Smith (1769-1839), English geologist and founder of stratigraphic geology. He gained his knowledge of geological strata during his work as a canal surveyor. From Life of Sir Roderick I

Adam Sedgwick (1785-1873), British geologist who, in collaboration with Roderick Impey Murchison (1792-1871), defined the Devonian system. From The Life of Sir Roderick I

Robert Jameson (1774-1854), Scottish mineralogist, professor of natural history in Edinburgh from 1804 to 1854. Together with David Brewster, he founded the Edinburgh Philosophical Journal

General Alexandre D'Arblay (1748-1818) was a French soldier who lived in England as a refugee during the French Revolution

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EDITORS COMMENTS

"Exploring the World: From Secret Gardens to Remote Coasts" Embark on a journey of exploration as we delve into the captivating tales of adventurers and wanderers. Just like Mary in "Secret Garden, " let your curiosity guide you through hidden wonders waiting to be discovered. Join Olive MacLeod as she fearlessly ventures into the heart of Africa, unraveling its mysteries one step at a time. Feel the thrill that Captain Cook experienced while exploring the enchanting coast of New Zealand, immortalized in an awe-inspiring lithograph. Witness Stanley's remarkable expedition along Lake Tanganyika, where he encountered breathtaking landscapes and encountered new species such as the Northern Birch Mouse, boldly exploring willow and redcurrant branches. Travel across continents to Sichuan, China, where a road winds through the mesmerizing bamboo sea. Lose yourself in nature's splendor as you witness sunset casting its golden hues over rugged rocks at Praia Baleal in Peniche, Portugal. Feel your spirit soar with every glimpse of Rio La Leona flowing gracefully through Patagonian Steppe near El Calafate in Argentina. And let Batu Bolong Beach in Bali beckon you with its pristine shores and vibrant culture. But don't forget about home. Marvel at Grand Prismatic Spring—one of America's largest hot springs—nestled within Yellowstone National Park's Midway Geyser Basin. Let it remind us that there are countless treasures awaiting our exploration right here too. So pack your bags, ignite your sense of adventure, and set forth on an unforgettable journey around our diverse world—a world brimming with beauty just waiting for explorers like you to uncover its secrets.