Oxford Science Archive (page 42)

Descartes' idea of the hydraulic action of the nerves, 1692 Unknown

Descartes' idea of how eye passes impulse to brain and so directs a voluntary movement, 1692 Unknown

Descartes' explanation of vision, 1692 Unknown

Depot where electrically driven Paris cabs were fitted with freshly charged batteries, 1899 Unknown

Deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope, 1990 Unknown

Deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope, 1990 Unknown

Denis Papin, French physicist, 1870 Unknown

Demonstration or Cause & Effect, 1817 Unknown

Dee Viaduct, Vale of Llangollen, on the Shrewsbury, Wales and Chester Railway c1848 Unknown

Death Valley, California, USA, 1982-1993 Unknown

Death triumphant, 1493 Unknown

Death of Pliny the Elder, 79 (1866) Unknown

Dawlish, Devon, c1860 Unknown

Davy's electric egg, 1883 Unknown

David Hume, Scottish philosopher, historian and economist, 1837 Unknown

Darwinian Ancestor, 1887 George du Maurier

Darwin's study at Down House, his home near Beckenham, Kent, 1883 Unknown

Dalcoath copper mine, Camborne, Cornwall, c1830 Unknown

Cyrus McCormick's reaping machine of 1831 (patented 1834), c1851. Anonymous

Cyclist in busy London traffic riding a machine of the Rover safety type, 1895 Stephen T Dadd

Cutting coin blanks from metal strips, Royal Mint, London, 1897 Unknown

Curvature of the Earth, c1880 Unknown

Crystallization of saltpetre (nitre, potassium nitrate, or KN03), 1683 Unknown

Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London, built for the Great Exhibition of 1851 D le Bihan

Cryostat for COBE satellite, 1989, USA Unknown

Crustacea and Reptiles, c1850 Robert Kent Thomas

Cross-staffs used for surveying, 1551 Unknown

Cross section of a Newcomen-type steam engine attributed to Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, 1767 Unknown

Crinan Canal at Lochgilphead, Scotland, 1891 Unknown

Cricket Field at Bournville, 1892 Unknown.

Creusot quick-firing field gun, Boer armoury, c1900 Unknown

Cretin aged 15, c1890 Unknown

Cover of De la Terre a la Lune and Autour de la Lune, by Jules Verne, c1896 Unknown

Courtyard of Gresham College, London, 18th century Unknown

Courting by telephone across Paris, 1883 Unknown

Copernican sun-centred (heliocentric) system of the universe, 1708 Unknown