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The Scientific Revolution (1500-1700) was driven by several key inventions, all scientific instruments that became essential to achieving a greater understanding of the world around us. With instruments like the telescope, microscope, thermometer...

This alabaster bas relief depicts marching shield bearers accompanied by a group of musicians who carry different musical instruments. The male musicians are carrying rectangular drums with a string; this instrument can still be found in...

Music (or mousike) was an integral part of life in the ancient Greek world, and the term covered not only music but also dance, lyrics, and the performance of poetry. A wide range of instruments was used to perform music which was played...

A c. 1877 CE photograph of the remains of instruments at Beijing's Observatory. Astronomy evolved in 16th-17th century CE China as a result of the introduction of scientific ideas by Jesuit missionaries such as Ferdinand Verbiest (1623-88...

A relief from the Temple of Kom Ombo depicting various Egyptian medical instruments. Ptolemaic Period.

"Portrait of an Extraordinary Musical Dog" by English painter Philip Reinagle (1749-1833 CE). Oil on canvas. 1805 CE. 71.76 cm (28 1/4 in) x 92.71 cm (36 1/2 in). Collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

An 1876 oil on canvas still life, Bouquet of Peonies on a Musical Score, by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), the French post-impressionist painter. Gauguin was largely a self-taught artist, and his natural talent shines through in this still life...

A relaxed scene from a krater (wine-mixing vessel). Ttwo women listen while a third plays the lyre. Attributed to the Danaë Painter, c. 460 BCE. Attica, Greece. (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

This papyrus was written around 200 BCE in Hermopolis, Egypt, and contains seven fragmentary lines (338–344) from the first chorus of Euripides, Orestes. The fragment contains vocal and instrumental symbols written above the lines of the...

A calyx-krater depicting two women listening while a third woman, who holds two flutes, sings. Attributed to the Niobid Painter. c. 460-450 BCE. From Vulci, Italy. Produced in Attica, Greece.