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A 1689 portrait by Johann Kerseboom of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), the Anglo-Irish chemist, physicist, and experimental philosopher. (Science History Institute, Philadelphia)

A mid-16th century CE manuscript illustration showing Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland (r. 1306-1329 CE) and his first wife Isabel of Mar (d. c. 1296 CE). (National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh)

An 1847 lithograph by Eduard Kaiser of the German composer Robert Schumann (1810-1856) and his wife, also a composer and concert pianist, Clara Schumann (1819-96).

The brother of the King of Babylonia introduces Constantine the African to the court of Robert Guiscard.

Title pages of two editions of The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay by Robert Greene (c. 1558-1592), reproduced in The Plays & Poems of Robert Greene, 1905.

A map illustrating the transformation of the East India Company from a hopeful merchant venture in 1600 with isolated trade outposts governed by isolated and mostly independent town councils into a major ruler of large territories in India...

A 19th century CE painting by Jean-Joseph Dassy of Robert of Normandy at the Siege of Antioch, 1097-8 CE during the First Crusade (1095-1102 CE).

A microscope of the type invented by the English scientist Robert Hooke (1635-1703). Made between 1671 and 1700. The device on the left, designed by Hooke, is a scotoscope which helped better illuminate the specimen under view in the microscope...

An 1818 painting by Benjamin West showing Robert Clive (1725-1774), Governor General of Bengal and representative of the East India Company, meeting the Mughal emperor Shah Alam in 1765 to gain tax collecting rights. (British Library, London...

A posthumous portrait of the celebrated scientist Robert Hooke (1635-1703), a key figure in the Scientific Revolution. Painted by Rita Greer in 2009. (Department of Engineering Science, Oxford University)