Tuesday 3 November 2015 at 16:45
WELLCOME LIBRARY - Gillian Daniels, Graduate Trainee at the Wellcome Trust, explores the story of Shen Nong, born of a princess and heavenly dragon, and teacher to the ancient Chinese of agriculture and herbal medicine.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-legend-of-the-divine-farmer/
Thursday 29 October 2015 at 17:34
Images from the Claris Inferni or "The Key of Hell", a late-18th-century book on black magic.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-key-of-hell-an-18th-century-manual-on-black-magic/
Wednesday 28 October 2015 at 17:08
Hyperspace, ghosts, and colourful cubes - Jon Crabb on the work of Charles Howard Hinton and the cultural history of higher dimensions.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/10/28/notes-on-the-fourth-dimension/
Tuesday 27 October 2015 at 17:55
A book of poetry by French writer Guillaume Apollinaire, noted for its use of "caligrams" in which typeface and arrangement of words on the page add to the meaning of the compositions.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/apollinaires-calligrammes-1918/
Thursday 22 October 2015 at 17:58
A series of wonderful promotional posters to accompany the shows of Harry Kellar, an American magician of the late 19th and early 20th century.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/harry-kellars-show-posters/
Wednesday 21 October 2015 at 15:45
A book of Victorian hi-tech ghost conjuring which allows the reader to summon, as the sub-title proclaims, ghosts everywhere and of any colour.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/spectropia-or-surprising-spectral-illusions-1865/
Tuesday 20 October 2015 at 18:46
Images from an article about an unusual form of sculpture, found in a 1905 issue of American Homes and Gardens magazine.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-art-of-ornamental-orange-peeling/
Wednesday 14 October 2015 at 17:52
Obsessed with the smallest and seemingly least exciting of plants — mosses and liverworts — the 19th-century botanist Richard Spruce never achieved the fame of his more popularist contemporaries. Elaine Ayers explores the work of this unsung hero of Victorian plant science and how his complexities echoed the very subject of his study.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2015/10/14/richard-spruce-and-the-trials-of-victorian-bryology/
Tuesday 13 October 2015 at 17:57
Two animations by Tony Sarg: one an untitled film critiquing the Prohibition of the 20s via the medium of drunk monkeys, the other a series of humorous scenes depicting a circus.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-first-circus-1921/
Thursday 8 October 2015 at 18:19
A collection of pornographic art from antiquity, presented by the French art historian and libertine Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville (1719-1805).
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/collection-of-pornographic-art-from-antiquity-1785/