The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)

Venetian Bridge Brawls in 17th and 18th Century Art

Diagrams from Willem ten Rhijne’s De Acupunctura (1683)

Longitude by Way of Wounded Hounds: Kenelm Digby’s Sympathetick Powder (1669 edition)

The Shadow of Desire: Painting the Origins of Art (ca. 1625–1850)

The Mowing-Devil (1678), or, the Earliest Known Depiction of a Crop Circle

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Charles Butler’s The Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 edition)

Piled High: 17th-Century Dutch Banquet Scenes

Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)

Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)

“A Truer and Deeper Knowledge”: Anna Maria van Schurman’s The Learned Maid (1659)

Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)

Love Spells and Deadly Shrieks: Illustrations of Mandrakes (ca. 650–1927)

Paper Gems: Early Modern Blackwork Prints

Humanity 101: The Syllabus of Frankenstein's Monster

Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (1692)

The Works of Mars (1671)

Beetle Carapaces in Basohli Miniature Paintings (ca. 1660–1700)

A Bestiary of Loss

Visualising Bubbles (1500–1906)

Alexander in the Bathysphere

Jan Luyken’s Frontispiece for Osteologia (1680)

Ostentatio Genitalium in Renaissance Art