Oxford Science Archive (page 24)

Page of Biblia Pauperum (Poor People's Bible), 15th century Anonymous

Paddington Station, the London terminus of the Great Western Railway, 1854 Unknown

Packing tea in the warehouses of the East & West India Dock Company, London, 1874 Unknown

Otto von Guericke, German inventor, engineer and physicist, 1672 Unknown

Otto Lilienthal, German aeronaut, early 20th century Unknown

Optical phenomena observed and described by Sir Isaac Newton, 1704 Unknown

Operator sending a message on a Morse electric printing telegraph, 1887 Unknown

Operator receiving a message in Morse code on an electric printing telegraph, 1887 Unknown

Opening of the London to Paris telegraph link, 1852 Unknown

Opening of the Anglo-French telephone line, 1891 Unknown

Opening of the 1851 London to Paris telegraph link (1852) Unknown

Oliver Lodge, British physicist, 1904 Spy

Old English breed of pig, 1842 Unknown

Occultist, c19th century Unknown

Obverse of medal commemorating 50 years of cinematography by the Lumiere brothers, 1945 Unknown

Obverse of commemorative medal for Joseph Priestley (1733-1804), 1803 Unknown

Obverse of a medal commemorating the brilliant comet of November 1618 Unknown

Obverse of a medal commemorating the bright comet of 1577 Unknown

Observing a solar eclipse, 1673 Unknown

Observation of a spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici drawn by Lord Rosse, 1850 William Parsons

Nostradamus, 16th century French physician and astrologer, 1725 Unknown

North Staffordshire Railway steam Locomotive No 14 and its tender c1875 Unknown

Nicolas Lemery, French pharmacist and chemist, 1874 Anonymous

Nicholas Lemery, French chemist, 1870 Unknown

Nicholas Lemery, French chemist, 1762 Unknown

Newton's experiment splitting white light into the colours of the spectrum by a prism, 1757 Unknown

Newcomen-type steam engine attributed to Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, 1767 Unknown

Newcastle-upon-Tyne from the south-west, c1850 Thomas Abiel Prior

New Year greetings from stockbrokers Mercer Locock to their clients, 1894 Unknown

Nevil Maskelyne, English astronomer, 1804 Unknown

Neptune raising James Cook to immortality and fame, late 18th century Unknown

Needle-making equipment, 1819 Unknown

Needle making workshop, 1751-1780 Unknown

Nearly full view of Io, one of the moons of Jupiter, 1979 Unknown

Natterer's bat (Myotis nattereri), 1828 Unknown

Natives of the Arctic, 1825-1835 Unknown