Transcending the earthly concerns of betting and regal motifs, this pack of cards focuses exclusively on the heavens.
Astronomia Playing Cards (1829)
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Transcending the earthly concerns of betting and regal motifs, this pack of cards focuses exclusively on the heavens.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/astronomia
Millican's memoir of travels and exploits in the budding flower industry.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/orchid-hunter
What can visual art teach us about scent, stench, and the mysterious substance known as ambergris? Lizzie Marx follows a “whale-trail” across history to discover the olfactory paradoxes of the Dutch Golden Age.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/picturing-scent
American-born Copley made a splash at London’s Royal Academy with this depiction of Brook Watson’s dramatic rescue from Havana harbour in 1749.
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These complex geometrical figures and perspective drawings are preserved in a little-known manuscript at the Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/solid-objects
Sci-fi novel of psychonautical learning long before Albert Hofmann discovered LSD.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/etidorhpa
How did Virgil’s words survive into the present? And how were they once read, during his own life and the succeeding centuries? Alex Tadel explores Graeco-Roman reading culture through one of its best-preserved and most lavishly-illustrated artefacts.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/reading-like-a-roman
The illustrations from catalogues for Hirayama Fireworks and Yokoi Fireworks, published by C. T. Brock and Company, the oldest fireworks manufacturer in the United Kingdom.
Source: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-fireworks-catalogues
During the Enlightenment, when Diderot wrote his letter, blindness had become a topic of intense philosophical debate.
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In this early version of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, we find illustrations drawn by the author Reverend Charles Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll.
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