Text Illustrations
Chapter 1 – ‘A medieval missionary recounts that he has found the spot where the sky and the earth touch’. lllustrated plate from L’Atmosphère: Météorologie Populaire (Paris, 1888) by Camille Flammarion (1842–1925). © SSPL/Getty Images
Chapter 2 – Statue of Newton by Eduardo Paolozzi within the British Library. © LH Images/Alamy Stock Photo
Chapter 3 – John Aubrey, from a drawing by William Faithorne, c.1666. © Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Chapter 4 – The Pont du Gard, part of the first-century-BC ancient Roman aqueduct in Nîmes, France. © DeAgostini/Getty Images
Chapter 5 – ‘The Schemer (ballooning, Airy Station)’ by Carl Spitzweg, c.1870–75. Private collection
Chapter 6 – Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, attributed to Sir Peter Lely or Abraham van Diepenbeeck, c.1665. Private collection
Chapter 7 – Portrait of Isabelle de Charrière, Belle de Zuylen, by Maurice Quentin de la Tour, 1766. © Musée Antoine Lecuyer, Saint-Quentin, France/Bridgeman Images
Chapter 8 – Germaine de Staël, from Diary and Letters of Madame D’Arblay, 1778–1840, by Fanny Burney, Madame D’Arblay (London, 1843). © Ann Ronan Pictures/Print Collector/Getty Images
Chapter 9 – Mary Wollstonecraft, engraving by Opie, c.1797. © Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Chapter 10 – Mary Somerville as a young woman, by John Jackson. © Principals and Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford
Chapter 11 – John Keats, pencil drawing by Charles Armitage Brown, 1819. © NYC/Alamy Stock Photo
Chapter 12 – Monument to Percy Shelley in Christchurch Priory, Dorset. © Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Chapter 13 – Lady Hamilton. © Trustees of the British Museum
Chapter 14 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge by C. Dawe, c.1815, engraving Leopold Lowenstam. © Hulton Archive/Getty Images
Chapter 15 – Frontispiece from ‘The Grave’ by Robert Blair, engraved by Louis Schiavonetti (hand-coloured etching) after William Blake. Private collection/Photo © Christie’s Images/Bridgeman Images
Colour plates
1 – Zélide, ‘Belle van Zuylen’, by Maurice Quentin de la Tour, 1766. © Cabinet d’arts graphiques des Musées d’art et d’histoire, Genève, legs William Henry Théodore de Carteret, inv. n° 1915-0091. Photo: Nathalie Sabato
2 – Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, attributed to Sir Peter Lely or Abraham van Diepenbeeck, c.1665. Private collection
3 – Samuel Pepys by John Hayls, 1666. © DeAgostini/Getty Images
4 – Germaine Necker, Madame de Staël, by François Gérard, 1753. Photo by Imagno/Getty Images
5 – Byron of Rochdale in Albanian Dress, by Thomas Phillips, 1813. © Art Media/Print Collector/Getty Images
6 – William Godwin, by James Northcote, 1802. © Granger, NYC/Alamy Stock Photo
7 – Mary Wollstonecraft, by John Opie, c.1797. © The Print Collector/Getty Images
8 – Self-portrait by Mary Somerville. © Principals and Fellows of Somerville College
9 – Augusta Ada, Countess Lovelace, by Margaret Carpenter. © Photo12/UIG via Getty Images
10 – John Keats, by Joseph Severn, 1821. © Granger, NYC/Alamy Stock Photo
11 – Fanny Brawne, ambrotype taken c.1850. © City of London: London Metropolitan Archives
12 – Sir Thomas Lawrence, later copy by Richard Evans of an unfinished self-portrait by Lawrence, c.1825, the palette and brushes added by Evans, c.1868. © National Portrait Gallery, London
13 – Elizabeth Farren, later Countess of Derby, by Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1790. © Francis G. Mayer/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images
14 – Percy Bysshe Shelley, by Alfred Clint, 1819, after Amelia Curran and Edward Ellerker Williams. © National Portrait Gallery, London
15 – Samuel Taylor Coleridge by James Northcote. © Dove Cottage and The Wordsworth Museum/The Wordsworth Trust
16 – William Blake, by Thomas Phillips, 1807. © Universal History Archive/Getty Images