James Sowerby’s British Mineralogy (1802–17)

William James on the Stream of Consciousness (1890)

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

Between Frogs and Gods: Illustrations of Physiognomy

Gustave Zander and the 19th-Century Gym

Joseph Perry’s Medical Illustrations of Miscarriage (1834)

A Monster in the Heart: Edward May’s A Most Certaine and True Relation (1639)

The Human Voice (1921)

A Treatise on Artificial Limbs (1899)

The Zodiac Man

Visualizing Migraines: The Attempts of Hubert Airy and Others to Depict Scintillating Scotomata

Early Illustrations of the Nervous System by Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal

Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum (1652)

Studies on Twilight Phenomena, after Krakatoa (1888)

London's Dreadful Visitation: A Year of Weekly Death Statistics during the Great Plague (1665)

Plague Doctor Costumes

Coughs, Sneezes, and Jet-Propelled Germs: Two Public Service Films by Richard Massingham (1945)

First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming, by Eunice Foote (1856)

Optics Illustrations from the Physics Textbooks of Amédée Guillemin (1868/1882)

Agnes Catlow’s Drops of Water (1851)

Werner’s Nomenclature of Colours (1814)

Early Experiments with X-Rays (1896)

Images from William Saville-Kent’s The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893)

Flatfish Camouflage Experiments (1911)