Automata, astral travel, bawdy gods, balloonscapes, the combinatorial arts, invisible worlds, battered bodies, gloomy skies, the many faces of Don Quixote, and a pilfering Oscar Wilde.

Full colour with almost 80 illustrations, all printed on sumptuous 70lb paper.

Adam Green
Introduction

Nicholas Jeeves
Divine Comedy: Lucian Versus The Gods

Jack Hartnell
The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man

Ed Simon
Robert Greene, the First Bohemian

Yasmine Seale
Out of Their Love They Made It: A Visual History of Buraq

Rachel Schmidt
Picturing Don Quixote

Jessica Riskin
Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence

Jonathan Gray
“Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination

Je Wilson
Francis van Helmont and the Alphabet of Nature

Lily Ford
“For the Sake of the Prospect”: Experiencing the World from Above in the Late 18th Century

Gillen D'Arcy Wood
Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816

Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell
On Oscar Wilde and Plagiarism

Jon Crabb
The Strange Case of Mr William T. Horton

Philip Ball
Worlds Without End

Benjamin Breen
Astral Travels with Jack London