Ernst Haeckel (ca. 1866).

Source: @nypl.bsky.social

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#exploration #race #eugenics #biology #darwinism #ceylon #science #boots #beards #colonialism #hats #racism #art #publicdomain

Illustration of marble

Illustration by Adam Wirsing, from Marmora et adfines aliquos lapides coloribus suis exprimi (1776).

Source: SLUB

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#minerals #geology #stones #collecting #patterns #marble #art #publicdomain

Philipp Hainhofer’s Große Stammbuch

Illustration by Philipp Hainhofer, from Große Stammbuch (1596–1633).

Source: Herzog August Bibliothek

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#societies #manuscripts #rivers #nobility #cityscape #signatures #friendship #heraldry #art #publicdomain

Frozen Russian soldiers melting away before the Japanese army (the Rising Sun). (1904–5) by Kobayashi Kiyochika, from Nihon banzai hyakusen hyakushō.

Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social

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#propaganda #russia #ice #japan

haeckel jellyfish medusae

Leptomedusae (1879) by Ernst Haeckel, from Monographie der Medusen.

Source: Ernst Mayer Library / Biodiversity Heritage Library

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#zoology #jellyfish #marine #sea #medusae #art #publicdomain

erbario 15th century herbal

From Erbario: Penn MS LJS 419 (15th century).

Source: Penn Libraries

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#herbals #flora #leaves #plants #art #publicdomain

erbario 15th century herbal

From Erbario: Penn MS LJS 419 (15th century).

Source: Penn Libraries

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#herbals #flora #leaves #plants #art #publicdomain

Plato (1874) by James Nasymth, from The Moon: Considered as a Planet, a World, and a Satellite.

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

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#craters #models #moon #astronomy #lunar #art #publicdomain

Los Angeles (ca. 1888) by Britton and Rey.

Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

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#panoramas #mountains #streets #buildings #cityscape #sky #art #publicdomain

Honoré Daumier illustration

A Creditor’s Visit (1838) by Honoré Daumier.

Source: Musée Carnavalet / Paris Musées

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#credit #money #debt #gesture #finance #art #publicdomain

Sketch by Cranch

“Out of man sprang the sun, from woman the moon” (ca. 1837–9) by C. P. Cranch, from Illustrations of the New Philosophy.

Source: @harvard.edu

Available to buy as a print.

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#balloons #caricatures #nature #transcendentalism

hiroshige

Number Four of the Tokaido (1850) by Utagawa Hiroshige.

Source: @rijksmuseum.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

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#whales #ukiyo-e #japan #montage #oysters #art #publicdomain

Scar-Face Charley (1873) by Louis Herman Heller.

Source: @yale.edu

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#portraits #feathers #colonialism #art #publicdomain

Store Børgefjell (ca. 1881) by Charles Rabot.

Source: Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate

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#arctic #norway #cloudy #snow #landscapes #art #publicdomain

diagram of machine

From Kitāb al-jāmiʿ bayn al-ʿilm wa-al-ʿamal al-nāfiʿ fī ṣināʿat al-ḥiyal, Staatsbibliothek Ms or Fol 3306 (ca. 17th century).

Source: Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

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#charts #diagrams #schematics #machinery #pulleys

Illustration by Gregorius Bock, from Beinecke MS 439 (ca. 1510).

Source: @yale.edu

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#type #alphabets #decorative #letters #calligraphy #typography #design #writing #lettering #art #publicdomain

From Kitāb-i ʻAjāʾib-i makhlūqāt (1921).

Source: Princeton University Library

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#astrology #persia #iran #devils #ghosts #angels #demons #occultism #magic #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Jean Errard, from Fortification réduicte art and démonstrée (1600).

Source: Deutsche Fotothek / Wikimedia Commons

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#fortifications #warfare #geometry #architecture #art #publicdomain

Ape family (mocking of human funerals?) (13th century), from Walters Ms. W.102, Book of hours.

Source: The Walters Art Museum

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#animals #monkeys #manuscripts #renard #medieval #funerals #processions #folklore #reynard #art

lewis carroll illustration

Illustration by Lewis Carroll, from Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (1864).

Source: @britishlibrary.bsky.social

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#animals #drawing #art #publicdomain

Melancholia (1539) by Hans Sebald Beham.

Source: @metmuseum.org

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#mathematics #perspective #euclid #sitting #polyhedra #geometry #melancholy #artistry #art #publicdomain

Illustration by Odoardo Fialetti, Francesco Valesio, from De formato foetu liber singularis (1626).

Source: US National Library of Medicine

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#anatomy #dissection #biology #childbirth #art #publicdomain

Verbena (1462) by Johannes Hartlieb, from Kräuterbuch.

Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social

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#herbs #herbals #botany #botanical #flora #plants #art #publicdomain

diagram of machine

From Kitāb al-jāmiʿ bayn al-ʿilm wa-al-ʿamal al-nāfiʿ fī ṣināʿat al-ḥiyal, Staatsbibliothek Ms or Fol 3306 (ca. 17th century).

Source: Islamic Scientific Manuscripts Initiative

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#charts #diagrams #schematics #machinery #arabic

The Author Depositing His Voice at the Patent-Office, to Prevent Counterfeiting (1894) by Albert Robida, from “The End of Books”, Scribner's Magazine.

Source: University of Toronto Libraries / Internet Archive

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#patents

Esoteric illustration

Illustration by Raffaele Mainella, from Nos Invisibles (1907).

Source: Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève Livres / Internet Archive

Available to buy as a print.

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#spiritualism #spirituality #life-after-death #mediumship #art

wdd

Studiolo Gubbio (ca. 1478–82) by Francesco di Giorgio Martini.

Source: @metmuseum.org

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#wood #painting #woodwork #books #marquetry #intarsia #craftmanship #cabinets #instruments #art #publicdomain

Jose Guadalupe Posada

“Calavera Oaxaqueña” (ca. 1910) by José Guadalupe Posada.

Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

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#calaveras #cartoons #sombreros #mexico #dancing #skeletons #skulls #art #publicdomain

Italian woman (ca. 1905) by Augustus Sherman.

Source: @nypl.bsky.social / Flickr: The Commons

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#earrings #europe #lace #portraits #headscarves #immigration #art #publicdomain

3g08083v

Phenakistoscope (1833).

Source: @librarycongress.bsky.social

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#monkeys #technology #zebras #phenakistoscopes #movement #balls #art #publicdomain