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Aeschines

Roman copy after a Greek original of the late 4th century BC,
Palazzo Nuovo, Musei Capitolini
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Aeschylus

Georg Agricola

wikpedia
Mark Akenside

Project Gutenberg
Andrea Alciati

Saint Clement of Alexandria

Anacreon

Roman Marble, Imperial Period (2nd or 3rd Century). Photo by Eric Gaba / Wikimedia Commons.
Lancelot Andrewes

Frontispiece from a 17th-century book of sermons
Saint Anselm

John Arbuthnot

John Arbuthnot, MD, Ph.D., author of the John Bull pamphlets, from a painting by Godfrey Knoeller (Public domain ; Wikipedia
Archimedes

Aretaeus of Cappadocia

Lodovico Ariosto

Ludovico Ariosto. From Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905). Wikimedia Commons.
Aristophanes

Aristotle

Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from 330 BC,
Palazzo Altemps, Rome, Italy
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Roger Ascham

Project Gutenberg
Jean Astruc

Saint Athanasius

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Saint Augustine

Roger Bacon

Roger Bacon. Frontispiece from A Book of Essays (1905) by Samuel Abraham Hirsch.
William Bailey

Marquis François Barbé de Marbois (attributed)

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NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Isaac Barrow

Published 1811
Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Saint Basil of Caesarea

Statue of St. Basil the Great, St. Nicholas Church, Malá Strana, Prague. Photo by user Kostisl / Wikimedia Commons.
Richard Baxter

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NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Pierre Bayle

wikimedia commons
James Beattie

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Francis Beaumont

The Venerable Bede

Pietro Bembo

Pietro Cardinal Bembo as Zoroaster, detail from "The School of Athens" by Rafael, 1509-10.
Sir William Blackstone

Print by T. Hamilton Crawford after Joshua Reynolds, c1930 (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-2536)
Giovanni Boccaccio

Portrait of Giovanni Boccaccio from Il decameron di Messer Giovanni Boccaccio (Firenze : Ciardetti, 1822).
Herman Boerhaave

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Anicius Manlius T.S. Boethius

James Boswell

Robert Boyle

Painting by F. Kerseboom, reproduced in "Britain's Heritage of Science" by Arthur Shuster and Arthur Shipley (1917). Painting is of early chemist Robert Boyle, not Joyce scholar Robert Boyle.
Sebastian Brant

Project Gutenberg
Great Britain.

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sir Thomas Browne

George Buchanan

George Buchanan. Frontispiece from George Buchanan; a biography (1906) by Donald Macmillan
Gilbert Burnet

Thomas Burnet

Godfrey Kneller, published 1697
Charles Burney

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Robert Burton

Wikipedia (public domain)
Joseph Butler

Joseph Butler (1692-1752), Wikimedia Commons
Samuel Butler

Gaius Julius Caesar

public domain
Jean Calvin

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-72002)
William Camden

Archibald Campbell

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Hieronymus Cardanus

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Isaac Casaubon

Isaac Casaubon. Frontispiece from Isaac Casaubon, 1559-1614 (1892) by Mark Pattison
Baldassare Castiglione

Potrait by Raphael, Musée du Louvre; www.tudor-portraits.com
Gaius Valerius Catullus

Courtesy Wikipedia.
Aulus Cornelius Celsus

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Geoffrey Chaucer

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William Cheselden

From the collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
George Cheyne

From the collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Saint John Chrysostom

Statue of St. John Chrysostom, St. Nicholas Church, Malá Strana, Prague. Photo by user Kostisl / Wikimedia Commons.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

from Wikipedia
Samuel Clarke

Joannes Amos Comenius

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
James Cook

wikipedia - James Cook, portrait by Nathaniel Dance, c. 1775, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
Abraham Cowley

Source: "International monthly magazine
of literature, art and science"
v.5, no. 2 (Feb. 1, 1852)
(Project Gutenberg)
Ralph Cudworth

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Richard Cumberland

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Saint Cyril Bishop of Jerusalem

Demosthenes

Roman copy of Greek original of 280 B.C.
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
René Descartes

from Wikipedia
Denis Diderot

Cassius Dio Cocceianus

Michael Drayton

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
John Dryden

Laurence Echard

William Eden

Pliny the Elder

Epictetus

wikimedia commons
Desiderius Erasmus

Robert Estienne

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Euripides

Roman copy after a Greek original from ca. 330 BC,
Museo Pio-Clementino
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Eusebius of Caesarea

Benito Jerónimo Feijoo

Juan Bernabé Palomino (1692-1777)
Thomas Fuller

lithograph by C. Kell, 1874, after a portrait by an unknown artist, 1648
Galen

Claude Galien. Lithograph by Pierre Roche Vigneron. (Paris: Lith de Gregoire et Deneux, ca. 1865). From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Pierre Gassendi

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William Gilbert

From the collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Oliver Goldsmith

From Wikimedia Commons
John Gower

Thomas Gray

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Hugo Grotius

Hugo Grotius - Portrait by Michiel Jansz van Mierevelt, 1631. From
WikipediaSir Matthew Hale

The Life & Death of Sir Matthew Hale (1682)
Stephen Hales

From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
James Harris

James Harris. Frontispiece from Philological inquiries, in three parts (1781)
David Hartley

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Benjamin Heath

Project Gutenberg's English Book Collectors, by William Younger Fletcher, published 1902.
Hippocrates

Peter Paul Rubens, engraving, 1638. From the collection of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Friedrich Hoffmann

Balthasar Denner. 1726
Homer

from Wikipedia
Photograph taken of the bust of Homer
in the British Museum, London
Horace

Horace, as imagined by Anton von Werner
Irenaeus of Lyons

Saint Irenaeus (c. 130-202), bishop of Lugdunum in Gaul (now Lyons, France).
Samuel Johnson

Duyckinick, Evert A. Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women in Europe and America. New York: Johnson, Wilson & Company, 1873.
Mary Jones

www.marxists.org
Ben Jonson

wikipedia - Ben Jonson by Abraham Blyenberch, circa 1617.
Emperor Julian

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Juvenal

Woodcut of Juvenal from the Nuremberg Chronicle, created in the late 1400s.
John Ker

Project Gutenberg's English Book Collectors, by William Younger Fletcher, published 1902.
Hugh Latimer

Wikipedia Commons
John Lewis

John R. Lewis (b1940) ~ U.S. House of Representatives History Office
William Lilly

William Lilly, Astrologer, (1602–1681) (Wikimedia Commons)
Livy

from Wikipedia
John Locke

portrait, 1697, by Sir Gotfrey Kneller
Lucan

Nuremberg Chronicle also known as Schedelsche Weltchronik
Lucian

from Wikipedia (better one needed)
Titus Lucretius Carus

Hiob Ludolf

Niccolò Machiavelli

Henry Mackenzie

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Saint Justin Martyr

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Andrew Marvell

Engraving published in 1681.
William Mason

William Mason, Composer ~ Piano Mastery, Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers (Harriette Brower, 1915)
Project Gutenberg
Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Richard Mead

Project Gutenberg's English Book Collectors, by William Younger Fletcher, published 1902.
Pietro Metastasio

John Mill

1884 carte de visite of photograph of painting by Ernst Hader (LoC Prints and Photographs, LC-USZ62-76491)
John Milton

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

Unknown Artist (Wikimedia Commons)
Henry More

Sir Thomas More

Portrait by Hans Holbein, 1527,
Frick Collection, New York
(Yorck Project)
Petrus van Musschenbroek

Sir Isaac Newton

http://www.librarything.com/work.php?book=1708066 1855 edition
Philo Judaeus

Wikipedia
Pindar

Roman copy after a Greek original of the 5th century BC,
Palazzo Nuovo, Musei Capitolini
(Credit: Marie Lan-Nguyen, 2006)
Plato

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plato-raphael.jpg
Titus Maccius Plautus

Plutarch

Polybius

Alexander Pope

Jean-Baptiste van Loo (1684-1745)
Giambattista della Porta

Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division
(REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-110356)
(cropped)
Ptolemy

public domain - see Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Ptolemaeus.jpg
Quintilian

Jean Racine

Wikipédia France
Sir Joshua Reynolds

Self-Portrait (Wikimedia Commons)
Samuel Richardson

Pierre Richelet

Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Sallust

All the works of that famous historian Salust (London, 1692).
Julius Caesar Scaliger

Joseph Just Scaliger

Image from Joseph Justus Scaliger (1855) by Jakob Bernays
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

William Shakespeare

Wikipedia
Sophocles.

Edmund Spenser

John Stow

Monument in St Andrew Undershaft, London
Strabo

Gilbert Stuart

Ink and wash self-portrait drawn 1783
(Marian S. Carson Collection,
LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
LC-USZC4-6721)
Caius SUETONIUS TRANQUILLUS

Woodcut from the Nuremberg Chronicle (15th century)
Saint Ephraem

Romainian icon of St. Ephrem of Syria. Photo by user Troubageoff / French Wikipedia.
Cornelius Tacitus

Alessandro Tassoni

Torquato Tasso

wikimedia commons
Jeremy Taylor

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Terence

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus

Image from Lamb Design Collection. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LAMB, no. 1159 (A size))
Theocritus.

Image from Sixteen select idyls of Theocritus (1839) edited by D. B. Hickie
Saint Thomas Aquinas

Thucydides.

Bust of Thucydides, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto
Pope Urban VIII

Portrait of Pope Urban VIII, 16th cent.
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NYPL Digital Gallery(image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Andreas Vesalius

Portrait of Vesalius from his "De humani corporis fabrica" (1543)
Virgil

Wikipedia: "Publius Vergilius Maro"
Description: Bust of Vergil
Date: April, 2005
Author: A. Hunter Wright
Voltaire

Horace Walpole

Izaak Walton

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
William Warburton

Image from The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton (1788)
Thomas Warton

Isaac Watts

Source: "The story of the hymns and tunes,"
by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
(New York, 1906)
(Project Guttenberg)
Charles Wesley

Source: "The story of the hymns and tunes,"
by Theron Brown and Hezekiah Butterworth
(New York, 1906)
(Project Guttenberg)
John Wesley

Courtesy of the
NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Thomas Willis

From the collections of the U.S. National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD.
Christian Wolff

of Athens Xenophon

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NYPL Digital Gallery (image use requires permission from the New York Public Library)
Pliny the Younger

Wolfgang Sauber
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