Thursday 27 March 2014 at 17:38
A series of recordings made in 1946 as part of the “Ogooué-Congo” mission, a French scientific expedition led by ethnologist Noël Ballif through Middle-Congo and Gabon with a purpose to discover and study the Pygmy peoples.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/recordings-of-pygmy-music-from-the-1946-ogooue-congo-mission/
Tuesday 25 March 2014 at 16:44
Researches, chemical and philosophical chiefly concerning nitrous oxide, or dip…
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-nitrous-oxide-experiments-of-humphry-davy/
Thursday 20 March 2014 at 17:47
A charming set of twenty-five hand-tinted stereographs showing the various stage…
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-25-stages-from-courtship-to-marriage/
Wednesday 19 March 2014 at 17:39
Grounded in the theory that ideas, emotions, and even events, can manifest as visible auras, Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s Thought-Forms (1901) is an odd and intriguing work. Benjamin Breen explores these “synesthetic” abstractions and asks to what extent they, and the Victorian mysticism of which they were born, influenced the Modernist movement that flourished in the following decades.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/03/19/victorian-occultism-and-the-art-of-synesthesia/
Thursday 13 March 2014 at 17:06
The Home Movies of Frank Richard Oastler, an American surgeon specialising in gynaecology by profession but also a keen amateur photographer, scholar, and authority on wildlife conservation and its interpretation to the public.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-home-movies-of-frank-richard-oastler/
Wednesday 12 March 2014 at 19:35
A book on women painters throughout history, from the time of Caterina Vigri to Rosa Bonheur. includes a rather lavish preface by Walter Shaw Sparrow and various essays on the "genius" of women.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/women-painters-of-the-world-from-the-time-of-caterina-vigri-to-rosa-bonheur-1905/
Tuesday 11 March 2014 at 19:25
An eighteenth-century pattern book consisting of 36 ink drawings showing precise…
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/tibetan-book-of-proportions/
Wednesday 5 March 2014 at 16:10
Luuc Kooijmans explores the work of Dutch anatomist Frederik Ruysch, known for his remarkable ‘still life’ displays which blurred the boundary between scientific preservation and vanitas art.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/2014/03/05/frederik-ruysch-the-artist-of-death/
Tuesday 4 March 2014 at 16:15
KONINKLIJKE BIBLIOTHEEK - Marieke van Delft discusses some works by the prolific writer Johannes Florentius Martinet (1729-1795), digitized in the Early Dutch Books Online (EDBO) Project.
Source: http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/the-writings-of-j-f-martinet-1729-1795/