Wednesday 13 September 2017 at 12:57
An early promoter and populariser of Darwin’s evolutionary theory, the German biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel was a hugely influential figure of the late 19th century. Bernd Brunner looks at how a trip to Sri Lanka sowed the seeds for not only Haeckel’s majestic illustrations from his Art Forms in Nature, for which he is […]
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/09/13/human-forms-in-nature-ernst-haeckels-trip-to-south-asia-and-its-aftermath/
Tuesday 12 September 2017 at 16:21
Arguably the very first images to depict space travel on a scientific basis, these wonderful illustrations are the work of the French illustrator Émile-Antoine Bayard.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/bayard-and-de-neuvilles-illustrations-for-around-the-moon-by-jules-verne-1870/
Thursday 7 September 2017 at 18:23
Recording made by Woodrow Wilson in the run up to the 1912 election, which he would go on to win.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/woodrow-wilson-on-democratic-principles-1912/
Wednesday 6 September 2017 at 17:31
Unusual and delightfully ingenious book which employs a series of "hieroglyphic" plates to frame an account of a trade voyage to the Caribbean.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hieroglyphic-journal-of-a-voyage-to-the-caribbean-1815/
Wednesday 30 August 2017 at 18:37
With their elaborate interplay of image and text, the several large-scale prints designed by the French friar Martin Meurisse to communicate Aristotelian thought are wonderfully impressive creations. Susanna Berger explores the function of these complex works, and how such visual commentaries not only served to express philosophical ideas in a novel way but also engendered their own unique mode of thinking.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/08/30/the-art-of-philosophy-visualising-aristotle-in-early-17th-century-paris/
Wednesday 30 August 2017 at 12:20
With their elaborate interplay of image and text, the several large-scale prints designed by the French friar Martin Meurisse to communicate Aristotelian thought are wonderfully impressive creations. Susanna Berger explores the function of these complex works, and how such visual commentaries not only served to express philosophical ideas in a novel way but also engendered […]
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/08/30/the-art-of-philosophy-visualising-aristotle-in-early-17th-century-paris/
Tuesday 29 August 2017 at 20:00
Exquisite illustrations from a 19th-century Persian version of an ancient Indian collection of animal fables called the Panchatantra.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/illustrations-from-the-lights-of-canopus-1847/
Wednesday 23 August 2017 at 13:02
First published in 1912, this is the second edition of what would, by 1976, become a series of thirteen separate, and ever-expanding, versions of a wonderfully illustrated tome detailing every operatic record released by Victor records.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-victrola-book-of-the-opera-1913/
Saturday 19 August 2017 at 19:25
Wonderful diagrams of nodal lines formed by vibrating plates, found in a late 18th-century work by German physicist and musician Ernst Chladni.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/chladni-figures-1787/
Wednesday 16 August 2017 at 18:03
Ellen J. Stockstill on how William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army, placed the ideas and language of colonialism at the very heart of his vision for improving the lives of Victorian England's poor.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2017/08/16/rescuing-england-the-rhetoric-of-imperialism-and-the-salvation-army/