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by David Wootton

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Title page of F Bacon Novum Organum 1620 (© The Trustees of the British Museum)

Tycho's Super Nova (credit: Universal Images/Getty Images)

Hevelius and his telescope (credit: The Royal Society)

Distinct centres diagram from Sacrobosco's Sphere (Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta, Venice) 1537 (credit: Wellcome Library, London)

Diagram showing Relative and absolute Volumes from Sacrobosco's Sphere (Sphera Volgare Novamente Tradotta,Venice) 1537 (credit: Wellcome Library, London)

Clavius image of earth and water (credit: Wellcome Library, London)

Niceron perspective, 1652 (credit: Wellcome Library, London)

Cesariano illustration, from Vitruvius, De archiectura, 1521 (credit: RIBA Library, Photographic Collections)

Vesalius illustration of the muscles of the body 'on the fabric of the Human body' 1543 (credit: University of Glasgow Library, Special Collections)

Apian illustration from Cosmographia (credit: Rare Books & Manuscripts Department, Boston Public Library)

Fortification plan of Coeverden in the Netherlands (credit: Newberry Library Chicago)

Tartaglia's New Science Title Page 1527 (credit: Middle Temple Library/Science Photo Library)

Galileo's moon from starry messenger, 1610 (credit: Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering & Technology, USA)

Frontispiece Giovanni Battista Riccioli's New Almagest, 1651 (credit: Universal Images Group /Getty images)

Godwin's man in the moon, 1638 The Man in the Moone (credit: Bibliotheque des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France)

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