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Diagramming Dante: Michelangelo Caetani’s Maps of the Divina Commedia (1855/1872)
Christoph Jamnitzer’s Neuw Grotteßken Buch (1610)
“Light from the Darkness”: Paul Nash’s Genesis (1924)
Anton Seder’s The Animal in Decorative Art (1896)
Etching of a Sámi Drum from the Dutch Edition of Johannes Schefferus’ Lapponia (1682)
Vanity of Vanities: Fool’s Cap Map of the World (ca. 1585)
Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)
A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)
Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)
Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)
Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)
The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)
Johannes Hartlieb’s Book of Herbs (1462)
A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s Book of Monsters (1914)
Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)
Raffaele Mainella’s Illustrations for Nos Invisibles (1907)
Looking Backward: Images of Rückenfiguren (ca. 1497–1925)
The Lens of Desire: Eye Miniatures (ca. 1790–1810)