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

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

Pulex irritans: The Attack of the Monster (1885)

Sekka Zusetsu: A Book of Snowflakes (1832)

A Prophet of the Weather: Lantern Slides by Clement Lindley Wragge (ca. 1900–22)

Luke Howard’s Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)

A Treatise on the All-Healing Qualities of Earth Bathing (1790)

The Nature of the Beast: Charles le Brun’s Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)

Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)

Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)

José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)

What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)

George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)

A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)

Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)

Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)

Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)

Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)

Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)

queries

A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s Book of Monsters (1914)

Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)

The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)