The Stream of Time (1803–58)

Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art

“The Rainbow for their Guide”: Mary Gartside’s New Theory of Colours (1808)

A Vanishing Nova: Uranographia Britannica (ca. 1749)

Knowledge by the Pound: The Renowned History of Giles Gingerbread (1768)

Earthen Messages: Nikola Tesla in his Laboratory (ca. 1899)

Ferdinand van Kessel’s Four Parts of the World (ca. 1689)

Philipp Hainhofer’s Große Stammbuch (1596–1633)

A Hall of Mirrors: Cabala, Spiegel Der Kunst Und Natur, In Alchymia (1615)

Cycling Art, Energy, and Locomotion (1889)

James Sowerby’s British Mineralogy (1802–17)

Bruegel the Elder’s Big Fish Eat Little Fish (1556)

Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (1493)

Arthur Wesley Dow’s Floating World: Composition (1905 edition)

Unnatural Selection: Emil Schachtzabel’s Pigeon Prachtwerk (1906)

Judith Sargent Murray’s On the Equality of the Sexes (1790)

A Renaissance Riddle: The Sola Busca Tarot Deck (1491)

William James on the Stream of Consciousness (1890)

Hieroglyphics of a Rope-Dancer: The Book of Fate (1822)

The Holkham Bible Picture Book (ca. 1330)

Resurrection on Repeat: Rules and Orders of the Humane Society (1787)

Reciting Pictures: Buddhist Texts for the Illiterate

Between Frogs and Gods: Illustrations of Physiognomy

Gustave Zander and the 19th-Century Gym