Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection homepage
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Search for anything
Library account

History, 16th Century

Part of
Renaissance
Reformation

On this page

  • Images from the collections
  • Works from the collections
  • Related topics

Images from the collections

Images about History, 16th Century

52 images from works
  • Dorsal view of the forebrain of a wild-type zebrafish embryo
  • Histoire dún voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique. Contenant la navigation et choses remarquables veues sur mer / par l'autheur. Le comportement de Villegagnon en ce pays-là. Les moeurs et façons de viure estranges des sauuages ameriquains: auec vn colloque de leur langage. Ensemble la description de plusieurs animaux, arbres, herbes et autres choses singulières ... Reveve, corrigée et bien augmentee en ceste troisieme edition, tant de figures.
  • The discoverie of the large rich, and bewtifvl empire of Gviana. With / a relation of the great and Golden Citie / of Manoa (which the Spanyards call El / Dorado) And of the Prouinces of Emeria, / Arromaia, Amapaia, and other Cou- / tries, with their riuers, ad- / ioyning. / Performed in the yeare 1595, by Sir W. Ralegh. Knight, Captaine of her / Maiesties Guard, Lo. Warden / of the Stanneries, and her High- / nesse Lieutenant generall / of the Countie of / Cornewall / [Sir Walter Raleigh].
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • Hans Bock d.A. Das Bad zu Leuk, 1597.
  • Jost Amman's Stände und Handwerker mit Versen von Han Sachs / [Jost Amman].
  • High matter, dark language : the philosophy of Robert Fludd (1574-1637) an exhibition at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine catalogue / [prepared by] Christine English, Michael Fend and Robert Jan van Pelt.
  • De Iride: De Liquiritia:
  • Self-protection : today, Trasidrex provides protection for the 'heart-at-risk'.
  • Phillip Stubbes's Anatomy of the abuses in England in Shakspere's youth, A.D. 1583 / edited by Frederick J. Furnivall.

Works from the collections

1,828 works

    • Books

    History of the foundation and the rise of the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense, 1517-1550 / [Henry de Vocht].

    Vocht, Henry de, 1878-1962. | Date: 1951-1955
    • Books

    Practica copiosa von dem richten Grundt dess Bruch Schnidts (Lindau, 1559-67) / Caspar Stromayr.

    Stromayr, Caspar. | Date: [1994], ©1994
    • Books
    • Online

    The conquest of Mexico / [W.H. Prescott.] edited by J.F. Kirk.

    Prescott, William Hickling, 1796-1859. | Date: 1916
    • Books

    Thomas Baskerville, Elizabethan apothecary of Exeter / by Margery Rowe and G.E. Trease.

    Rowe, Margery. | Date: 1970
    • Books

    The Elizabethan world picture / by E.M.W. Tillyard.

    Tillyard, E. M. W. (Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall), 1889-1962. | Date: 1948
View all

Related topics

Medicine - History - 16th century
Spain
Paracelsus
Mexico
Italy
England
Germany
Medicine
Anatomy
Physicians

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

  • Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Library
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

Our building has:

  • Step free access
  • Hearing loops

Access information

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Cookie policy
  • Manage cookies
  • Modern slavery statement
TikTok
Facebook
Instagram
YouTube

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence