Images

Image of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) warehouse and the shipyard in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, which would have inspired Peter on his Grand Embassy trip to Western Europe. Copper engraving coloured by hand by Joseph Mulder.

An 18th-century portrait by Maurice Quentin de La Tour of Gabrielle Émilie, Marquise du Châtelet (1706-1749), the French scientist and translator. (Château de Breteuil, France)

A 1665 oil-on-canvas portrait by Peter Lely of Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673). She was one of the very few women to make a mark in the field of natural philosophy during the Scientific Revolution. (Harley Gallery and...

A modern statue of Maria Cunitz (1610-1664), the German-Polish astronomer, in Swidnica in Poland. The figure is holding Cunitz's book Urania Propitia, published in 1650.

Coloured copper-plate engraving by Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), the German naturalist and illustrator. From her book Metamorphoses of the Insects of Surinam which was published in 1705.

A 1679 oil-on-canvas portrait by Jacob Marrel of Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717), the German naturalist and illustrator. (Kunstmuseum Basel)

Wazir Khan Mosque, Lahore, Pakistan, built between 1634 and 1641 under the reign of Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan and named after the renowned physician and later Viceroy of Punjab Hakim Ilmud Din Ansari, who was given the title "Wazir Khan"...

General Roland Hill, 1st Viscount Hill asks the French Imperial Guard to surrender at the end of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815); according to legend, a French officer replied, "The Guard dies, it does not surrender." Painting by Robert...

Charge of the Scots Greys at the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815); originally titled "Scotland Forever!", oil on canvas by Elizabeth Thompson, 1881. Leeds Art Gallery.

The Battle of Waterloo: The British Squares Receiving the Charge of the French Cuirassiers (18 June 1815), oil on canvas by Henri Félix Emmanuel Philippoteaux, 1874. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.