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“Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World”: The Aurora Borealis in Art
Yggdrasil: The Sacred Ash Tree of Norse Mythology
Various Apocalyptic Scenes from the Prophetic Messenger (ca. 1827–61)
Buffon and de Sève’s Quadrupeds (1754)
The Beast of Gévaudan (1764–1767)
Robert Fludd's Memory Tricks (1617)
Photographs of (models of) the moon (1874)
Kumataro Ito's Illustrations of Nudibranchs from the USS Albatross' Philippine Expedition (ca. 1908)
Drawings of Tetradons and Diodons (ca. 1838–42)
Steam-Powered Tooth Extraction on an Envelope (1894)
Images from German "Caterpillar Calendar" (1837)
The Civil War Sketches of Adolph Metzner (1861–64)
On the Disposition of Iron in Variegated Strata (1868)
Émile-Antoine Bayard's Illustrations for Around the Moon by Jules Verne (1870)
Illustrations from the Lights of Canopus (1847)
William Sharp's Chromolithographs of The Great Water Lily (1854)
The Maps of Matrakçı Nasuh, Ottoman Polymath
Images from the First Colour Publication on Fish (1754)
Yellow Journalism: The "Fake News" of the 19th Century
A Selection from The MET's Public Domain Collection, Now Free from All Restrictions
The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings (1882)
The Human Alphabet
Illustrations from a Descriptive Iconography of Cacti (1841)
Phenakistoscopes (1833)