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Tower of Civitate
Tower of Civitate, San Paolo di Civitate's countryside, Italy. It is one of the few ruins still visible of the medieval city where the Battle of Civitate took place on 18 June 1053.
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Johannes Kepler by Mackenzie
A 19th-century engraving of the astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) by Frederick Mackenzie. (Smithsonian Libraries)
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Statue of Kepler, Linz
A modern statue of the astronomer and mathematician Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) in Linz, Austria.
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Kepler's Platonic Solid Universe Model
A diagram showing the idea of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) that the planets of the universe were made up of Platonic solids set within each other. From Kepler's Mysterium Cosmographicum (1596)
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Kepler's Map of the World
A map of the world according to Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) and published in his Rudolphine Tables in 1627. (web.archive.org)
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Johannes Kepler
A portrait of Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) the astronomer who created the then most accurate model of planetary astronomy and the laws of planetary motion. (Kepler Museum, Weil der Stadt, Germany)
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Giants' Staircase
The Giants' Staircase, with statues of Mercury and Neptune on either side, in the courtyard of the Doge's palace, Venice, Italy.
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Hall of the Great Council, Doge's Palace, Venice
Hall of the Great Council, Doge's Palace, Venice. The room is 53 meters long and 25 meters wide (173 x 82 ft) and can seat 2,000 people. On the back wall is one of the largest oil paintings on canvas...
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Doge's Palace, Venice
Doge's Palace (Palazzo Ducale), Venice.
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Russian Troops at Borodino
Line of Russian soldiers at the Battle of Borodino, part of the Panorama of Borodino by Franz Roubaud.
Battle of Borodino Museum-panorama.
