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Wonderful Weather: Floods and Foreboding in 17th-Century Britain

When the Bristol Channel flooded in 1607, it was not just one of the worst natural disasters in British history, it was also a sign, for man

publicdomainreview.org 28.10.26 · 44👁

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Albrecht Dürer’s Monument to the Vanquished Peasants (1525)

The design for a difficult-to-interpret monument that was never intended to be built.

publicdomainreview.org 27.10.26 · 55👁

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“Earth Not a Globe”: Parallax’s Zetetic Astronomy (1865)

A book more or less responsible for the revival of Flat Earth theories in the modern period.

publicdomainreview.org 22.10.26 · 71👁

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Immortal Beloved: Krishna and Rādhā Exchanging Clothes (ca. 1700–1900)

Indian images that grapple with the unbearable fact that lover and beloved are not one.

publicdomainreview.org 20.10.26 · 97👁

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“Men with Queer Nerves”: The Jumping Frenchmen of Maine

In the late nineteenth century, visitors to Maine observed something strange: French-Canadian lumberjacks who, at the slightest stimulus, se

publicdomainreview.org 14.10.26 · 126👁

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Rudolf Kalvach’s Wiener Werkstätte Postcards (1907)

Postcards that summon medieval grotesques and brightly coloured folk art, but also feel distinctly modern.

publicdomainreview.org 13.10.26 · 69👁

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Paul Carus’ The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil (1899)

A history of the Evil One, from the earliest times to the present.

publicdomainreview.org 07.10.26 · 111👁

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The Alchemical Transformations of the Mutus Liber (1677)

Carl Jung’s copy of an alchemical hoax, purporting to detail the discovery of the Philosopher’s Stone.

publicdomainreview.org 06.10.26 · 328👁

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Philip Sidney and the Extreme (Dis)graces of the Parenthesis

Erasmus called them “little moons” and George Puttenham praised them as “figures of tolerable disorder” (if used not too often “nor too thic

publicdomainreview.org 30.09.26 · 91👁

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“There is Nothing but Immortality!”: Walt Whitman and The Book of Heavenly Death (1905)

Choice excerpts from *Leaves of Grass* that speak to Whitman’s conception of immortality.

publicdomainreview.org 30.09.26 · 114👁

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Anatomy Unzipped: John of Arderne’s Sweden Scroll (ca. 1425–35)

Early surgical diagrams that present patients prying themselves open for our anatomical gaze.

publicdomainreview.org 29.09.26 · 110👁

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In Company Style: Illustrations from James Skinner’s Kitāb-i tashrīḥ al-aqvām (1825)

An illuminated Persian manuscript about customs, culture, and caste, written by an enigmatic figure of the early British Raj.

publicdomainreview.org 23.09.26 · 90👁

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Veronese's Dogs

publicdomainreview.org 16.09.26 · 299👁

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It’s “A Cat-astrophe”! (1919)

publicdomainreview.org 15.09.26 · 156👁

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Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century)

By manipulating paper flaps, the child could turn Adam into Eve into a mermaid, a lion into a griffin into an eagle — all while learning abo

publicdomainreview.org 10.09.26 · 118👁

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The Ties that Bind: Central Asian Ikat (ca. 19th century)

Vibrant textiles from the dazzling Timurid metropolis of Bukhara.

publicdomainreview.org 08.09.26 · 131👁