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A 1677 portrait by Daniel Schultz of Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), the Polish astronomer. (Library of Polish Academy of Sciences, Gdańsk)

An engraving portrait of Robert Boyle (1627-1691), the Anglo-Irish chemist, physicist, and experimental philosopher. In the background is the scientist's celebrated air pump.

The air pump commissioned by Robert Boyle (1627-1691) and built by Robert Hooke (1635-1703). The instrument was unique in that it allowed specimens to be placed in the glass ball and subjected to different air pressures. From...

A leather-bound notebook belonging to Robert Boyle (1627-1691), the Anglo-Irish chemist, physicist, and experimental philosopher. (Royal Society, London)

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

Native American medicine bag, illustration from the Annual Archaeological Report, 1915, by Rowland B. Orr, published in Ontario Sessional Papers, 1916, No. 17-18, 1916.

Winnebago Medicine Bundle, Nebraska, United States, 1850-60. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A print portrait of the Angol-Irish scientist Robert Boyle (1627-1691). (Science Museum, London)

Napoleon after his first abdication at Fontainebleau, April 1814. Painting by Paul Delaroche, 1845. Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig.

Portrait of Marie Louise of Austria (l. 1791-1847), oil on canvas by Robert Lefevre, 1812. Daughter of Emperor Francis I of Austria, she was the second wife of French Emperor Napoleon I and was therefore...