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| 'Unity in Diversity' | |
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| The Ancients | |
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| Aristotle: The First Philosopher-Naturalist | |
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| Theophrastus: The Father of Botany | |
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| Pedanios Dioscorides: Recording the Medicinal Use of Plants | |
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| Pliny the Elder: Collector of Knowledge | |
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| The Renaissance | |
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| Leonhart Fuchs: The Value of Illustrations | |
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| Ulisse Aldrovandi: Observation at First Hand | |
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| Andrea Cesalpino: Physician, Philosopher and Botanist | |
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| Pierre Belon: Pioneer of Comparative Anatomy | |
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| Konrad Gessner: The Beginnings of Modern Zoology | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| Nicolaus Steno: Unlocking the Earth's Geological Past | |
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| John Ray: The English Aristotle | |
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| Robert Hooke: Natural History Through The Microscope | |
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| Antony van Leeuwenhoek: The Discoverer of Bacteria | |
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| Sir Hans Sloane: The Great Collector | |
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| Maria Sibylla Merian: The Metamorphosis of Insects | |
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| Mark Catesby: Colonial Naturalist and Artist | |
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| Carl Linnaeus: The Man Who Brought Order to Nature | |
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| Comte de Buffon: A Grand Theorist | |
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| Georg Steller: The Discovery of Alaska | |
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| Michel Adanson: A Universal Method of Classification | |
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| Erasmus Darwin: Evolutionary Beginnings | |
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| William Bartram: Scientific Recorder and Artist | |
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| Joseph Banks: Voyager and Patron of Natural History | |
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| Johann Christian Fabricius: Classifier of Insect Diversity | |
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| James Hutton: Discoverer of Geological Time | |
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| Jean-Baptiste Lamarck: The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics | |
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| Antoine-Laurent de Jussieu: A New Method of Plant Classification | |
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| Georges Cuvier: Extinction and the Animal Kingdom | |
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| The 19th Century | |
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| William Smith: The Father of English Geology | |
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| Alexander von Humboldt: A Vision of the Unity of Nature | |
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| John James Audubon: Artist, Naturalist and Adventurer | |
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| William Buckland: First to Describe a Dinosaur | |
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| Charles Lyell: Advocate of Modern Geology | |
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| Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter | |
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| Richard Owen: Champion of Comparative Anatomy | |
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| Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz: Examination, Observation, Comparison | |
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| Charles Darwin: The Complete Naturalist | |
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| Alfred Russel Wallace: The Problem of the Origin of Species | |
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| Asa Gray: The Plants of the American West | |
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