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A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK (1711) A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift.The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle and his Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665), in which various everyday subjects (mirrors, fruit-trees, fish) were likened to religious themes - man's relationship to God, man's relationship to THE CITY OF TRUTH, OR, ETHICS (1609) The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609) Published in Paris at the beginning of the 17th century by Ambroise and Jérôme Drouart, Civitas Veri sive Morum (The City of Truth; or, Ethics) presents an allegorical poem by Bartolomeo Del Bene (1515-1595) — a reworking of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics — adorned with a series ofwonderful emblem
THE TALE OF BEATRIX POTTER This year, the works of one of the most successful and universal writers of all time came into the public domain in many countries around the world. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - in all, thirty-three books bearing the name “Beatrix Potter” have sold close to 200 million copies. ARNOLDUS MONTANUS' NEW AND UNKNOWN WORLD (1671) A selection of from the 125 copper engravings featured in Dutch explorer, missionary, and theologian Arnoldus Montanus' monumental De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (1671). The rather impressive full title of the work in English reads "The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland, Containing the Origin of the Americans and South-landers, remarkable voyages thither PICTURING A VOICE: MARGARET WATTS HUGHES AND THE EIDOPHONE November 26, 2019. A so-called Impression Figure by Margaret Watts Hughes, pigment on glass, date unknown. Courtesy of Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. R ecorded sound began as much a visual and textual concern as an auditory one. From its inception the phenomenon necessarily relied upon the act — via the medium of a vibratingsurface
ANCIENT COURSES: HAROLD FISK’S MEANDER MAPS OF THE thousands of years of course changes compressed into a single image by a clever mapmaker with an artistic eye. Looking at them, you're invited to imagine the Mississippi as it was during the European exploration of the Americas in the 1500s, during the Cahokia civilization in the 1200s (when this city's population matched London's), when the first humans came upon the river more than 12,000 AMERICAN FREEDOM: SINCLAIR LEWIS AND THE OPEN ROAD Some three decades before Kerouac and friends hit the road, Sinclair Lewis published Free Air , one of the very first novels about an automobile-powered road trip across the United States. Steven Michels looks at the particular vision of freedom espoused in the THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 By Karlos K. Hill. On the evening of May 31, 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the prosperous Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.PRIVACY POLICY
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Rijksmuseum. The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national library with a collection consisting of 1 million objects, dedicated to arts, crafts, and history from the years 1200 to 2000. Around 8000 objects are currently on display in the museum and some 125,000 high-resolution images are available through its online collections with plans to addanother
A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK (1711) A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift.The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle and his Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665), in which various everyday subjects (mirrors, fruit-trees, fish) were likened to religious themes - man's relationship to God, man's relationship to THE CITY OF TRUTH, OR, ETHICS (1609) The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609) Published in Paris at the beginning of the 17th century by Ambroise and Jérôme Drouart, Civitas Veri sive Morum (The City of Truth; or, Ethics) presents an allegorical poem by Bartolomeo Del Bene (1515-1595) — a reworking of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics — adorned with a series ofwonderful emblem
THE TALE OF BEATRIX POTTER This year, the works of one of the most successful and universal writers of all time came into the public domain in many countries around the world. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - in all, thirty-three books bearing the name “Beatrix Potter” have sold close to 200 million copies. ARNOLDUS MONTANUS' NEW AND UNKNOWN WORLD (1671) A selection of from the 125 copper engravings featured in Dutch explorer, missionary, and theologian Arnoldus Montanus' monumental De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (1671). The rather impressive full title of the work in English reads "The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland, Containing the Origin of the Americans and South-landers, remarkable voyages thither PICTURING A VOICE: MARGARET WATTS HUGHES AND THE EIDOPHONE November 26, 2019. A so-called Impression Figure by Margaret Watts Hughes, pigment on glass, date unknown. Courtesy of Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. R ecorded sound began as much a visual and textual concern as an auditory one. From its inception the phenomenon necessarily relied upon the act — via the medium of a vibratingsurface
ANCIENT COURSES: HAROLD FISK’S MEANDER MAPS OF THE thousands of years of course changes compressed into a single image by a clever mapmaker with an artistic eye. Looking at them, you're invited to imagine the Mississippi as it was during the European exploration of the Americas in the 1500s, during the Cahokia civilization in the 1200s (when this city's population matched London's), when the first humans came upon the river more than 12,000 AMERICAN FREEDOM: SINCLAIR LEWIS AND THE OPEN ROAD Some three decades before Kerouac and friends hit the road, Sinclair Lewis published Free Air , one of the very first novels about an automobile-powered road trip across the United States. Steven Michels looks at the particular vision of freedom espoused in the PUBLIC DOMAIN BACKGROUNDS FOR ZOOM So we thought we'd provide you with some images to brighten up your backdrops — from a dreamy Bosch landscape to a 70's space colony, from an operatic "Hall of Stars" to an Antarctic expedition. We've prepped them for Zoom as regards dimensions, but they are sure to be useful for other video conferencing/chat tools that you may be into. ENTRIES TO A COMPETITION TO DESIGN A NEW TOWER IN LONDON A selection of the more inventive entries to a competition to design a new tower for London. The year previous, 1889, saw the hugely successful Eiffel Tower go up in the centre of Paris, and the good people of London, not to be outdone, decided to get one of their own. THE FOURTH DIMENSION AND THE BIBLE (1922) William Anthony Granville, The Fourth Dimension and the Bible; Boston: R.G. Badger, 1922. In many respects, the Victorian era — with its revelations of Darwin, dinosaurs, etc. — was not the simplest time to be a religiously-minded scientist: despair and doubt were rife. But towards the end of the nineteenth century, inspired by explorations THE CITY OF TRUTH, OR, ETHICS (1609) Published in Paris at the beginning of the 17th century by Ambroise and Jérôme Drouart, Civitas Veri sive Morum (The City of Truth; or, Ethics) presents an allegorical poem by Bartolomeo Del Bene (1515-1595) — a reworking of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics — adorned with a series of wonderful emblem illustrations (most of whichwe feature below).
THE NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL IN ART (1460–1921) The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921) "Notre-Dame Cathedral is the very soul of Paris but so much more—it is a touchstone for all that is the best about the world, and a monument to the highest aspirations of artistic achievement that transcends religion and time. It has survived so much—from the French Revolution to Nazioccupation
EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS Detail from a photograph of celebrations in Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1905 — Source. Woman in a decorated carriage on Juneteenth, in front of Antioch Baptist Church in Houston's Fourth Ward, ca. 1900 — Source. Martha Yates Jones (left) and Pinkie Yates (right), daughters of Rev. Jack Yates, in a decorated carriage in front of a house, 1908 THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described by John of Patmos in his Book of Revelations, the last book of the New Testament. The chapter tells of a "'book', or 'scroll', in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals". FROM INDIA TO THE PLANET MARS (1900) From India to the planet Mars : a study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia. By Théodore Flournoy; 1900; Harper & Bros, New York and London. This book details the experiences of Théodore Flournoy (1854-1920), professor of psychology at the University of Geneva, during the five years he spent attending the seances of HélèneSmith, a
PHOTOGRAPHING THE TULSA MASSACRE OF 1921 On the evening of May 31, 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the prosperous Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Karlos K. Hill investigates the disturbing photographic legacy of this massacre and THE DROLATIC DREAMS OF PANTAGRUEL (1565) In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of Pantagruel). THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 By Karlos K. Hill. On the evening of May 31, 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the prosperous Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.PRIVACY POLICY
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Rijksmuseum. The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national library with a collection consisting of 1 million objects, dedicated to arts, crafts, and history from the years 1200 to 2000. Around 8000 objects are currently on display in the museum and some 125,000 high-resolution images are available through its online collections with plans to addanother
A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK (1711) A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift.The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle and his Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665), in which various everyday subjects (mirrors, fruit-trees, fish) were likened to religious themes - man's relationship to God, man's relationship to THE CITY OF TRUTH, OR, ETHICS (1609) The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609) Published in Paris at the beginning of the 17th century by Ambroise and Jérôme Drouart, Civitas Veri sive Morum (The City of Truth; or, Ethics) presents an allegorical poem by Bartolomeo Del Bene (1515-1595) — a reworking of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics — adorned with a series ofwonderful emblem
THE TALE OF BEATRIX POTTER This year, the works of one of the most successful and universal writers of all time came into the public domain in many countries around the world. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - in all, thirty-three books bearing the name “Beatrix Potter” have sold close to 200 million copies. ARNOLDUS MONTANUS' NEW AND UNKNOWN WORLD (1671) A selection of from the 125 copper engravings featured in Dutch explorer, missionary, and theologian Arnoldus Montanus' monumental De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (1671). The rather impressive full title of the work in English reads "The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland, Containing the Origin of the Americans and South-landers, remarkable voyages thither PICTURING A VOICE: MARGARET WATTS HUGHES AND THE EIDOPHONE November 26, 2019. A so-called Impression Figure by Margaret Watts Hughes, pigment on glass, date unknown. Courtesy of Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. R ecorded sound began as much a visual and textual concern as an auditory one. From its inception the phenomenon necessarily relied upon the act — via the medium of a vibratingsurface
ANCIENT COURSES: HAROLD FISK’S MEANDER MAPS OF THE thousands of years of course changes compressed into a single image by a clever mapmaker with an artistic eye. Looking at them, you're invited to imagine the Mississippi as it was during the European exploration of the Americas in the 1500s, during the Cahokia civilization in the 1200s (when this city's population matched London's), when the first humans came upon the river more than 12,000 AMERICAN FREEDOM: SINCLAIR LEWIS AND THE OPEN ROAD Some three decades before Kerouac and friends hit the road, Sinclair Lewis published Free Air , one of the very first novels about an automobile-powered road trip across the United States. Steven Michels looks at the particular vision of freedom espoused in the THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW Photographing the Tulsa Massacre of 1921 By Karlos K. Hill. On the evening of May 31, 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the prosperous Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma.PRIVACY POLICY
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Rijksmuseum. The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national library with a collection consisting of 1 million objects, dedicated to arts, crafts, and history from the years 1200 to 2000. Around 8000 objects are currently on display in the museum and some 125,000 high-resolution images are available through its online collections with plans to addanother
A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK (1711) A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift.The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle and his Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665), in which various everyday subjects (mirrors, fruit-trees, fish) were likened to religious themes - man's relationship to God, man's relationship to THE CITY OF TRUTH, OR, ETHICS (1609) The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609) Published in Paris at the beginning of the 17th century by Ambroise and Jérôme Drouart, Civitas Veri sive Morum (The City of Truth; or, Ethics) presents an allegorical poem by Bartolomeo Del Bene (1515-1595) — a reworking of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics — adorned with a series ofwonderful emblem
THE TALE OF BEATRIX POTTER This year, the works of one of the most successful and universal writers of all time came into the public domain in many countries around the world. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - in all, thirty-three books bearing the name “Beatrix Potter” have sold close to 200 million copies. ARNOLDUS MONTANUS' NEW AND UNKNOWN WORLD (1671) A selection of from the 125 copper engravings featured in Dutch explorer, missionary, and theologian Arnoldus Montanus' monumental De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (1671). The rather impressive full title of the work in English reads "The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland, Containing the Origin of the Americans and South-landers, remarkable voyages thither PICTURING A VOICE: MARGARET WATTS HUGHES AND THE EIDOPHONE November 26, 2019. A so-called Impression Figure by Margaret Watts Hughes, pigment on glass, date unknown. Courtesy of Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. R ecorded sound began as much a visual and textual concern as an auditory one. From its inception the phenomenon necessarily relied upon the act — via the medium of a vibratingsurface
ANCIENT COURSES: HAROLD FISK’S MEANDER MAPS OF THE thousands of years of course changes compressed into a single image by a clever mapmaker with an artistic eye. Looking at them, you're invited to imagine the Mississippi as it was during the European exploration of the Americas in the 1500s, during the Cahokia civilization in the 1200s (when this city's population matched London's), when the first humans came upon the river more than 12,000 AMERICAN FREEDOM: SINCLAIR LEWIS AND THE OPEN ROAD Some three decades before Kerouac and friends hit the road, Sinclair Lewis published Free Air , one of the very first novels about an automobile-powered road trip across the United States. Steven Michels looks at the particular vision of freedom espoused in the PUBLIC DOMAIN BACKGROUNDS FOR ZOOM So we thought we'd provide you with some images to brighten up your backdrops — from a dreamy Bosch landscape to a 70's space colony, from an operatic "Hall of Stars" to an Antarctic expedition. We've prepped them for Zoom as regards dimensions, but they are sure to be useful for other video conferencing/chat tools that you may be into. ENTRIES TO A COMPETITION TO DESIGN A NEW TOWER IN LONDON A selection of the more inventive entries to a competition to design a new tower for London. The year previous, 1889, saw the hugely successful Eiffel Tower go up in the centre of Paris, and the good people of London, not to be outdone, decided to get one of their own. THE FOURTH DIMENSION AND THE BIBLE (1922) William Anthony Granville, The Fourth Dimension and the Bible; Boston: R.G. Badger, 1922. In many respects, the Victorian era — with its revelations of Darwin, dinosaurs, etc. — was not the simplest time to be a religiously-minded scientist: despair and doubt were rife. But towards the end of the nineteenth century, inspired by explorations THE CITY OF TRUTH, OR, ETHICS (1609) Published in Paris at the beginning of the 17th century by Ambroise and Jérôme Drouart, Civitas Veri sive Morum (The City of Truth; or, Ethics) presents an allegorical poem by Bartolomeo Del Bene (1515-1595) — a reworking of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics — adorned with a series of wonderful emblem illustrations (most of whichwe feature below).
THE NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL IN ART (1460–1921) The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921) "Notre-Dame Cathedral is the very soul of Paris but so much more—it is a touchstone for all that is the best about the world, and a monument to the highest aspirations of artistic achievement that transcends religion and time. It has survived so much—from the French Revolution to Nazioccupation
EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS Detail from a photograph of celebrations in Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1905 — Source. Woman in a decorated carriage on Juneteenth, in front of Antioch Baptist Church in Houston's Fourth Ward, ca. 1900 — Source. Martha Yates Jones (left) and Pinkie Yates (right), daughters of Rev. Jack Yates, in a decorated carriage in front of a house, 1908 THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described by John of Patmos in his Book of Revelations, the last book of the New Testament. The chapter tells of a "'book', or 'scroll', in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals". FROM INDIA TO THE PLANET MARS (1900) From India to the planet Mars : a study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia. By Théodore Flournoy; 1900; Harper & Bros, New York and London. This book details the experiences of Théodore Flournoy (1854-1920), professor of psychology at the University of Geneva, during the five years he spent attending the seances of HélèneSmith, a
PHOTOGRAPHING THE TULSA MASSACRE OF 1921 On the evening of May 31, 1921, several thousand white citizens and authorities began to violently attack the prosperous Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Karlos K. Hill investigates the disturbing photographic legacy of this massacre and THE DROLATIC DREAMS OF PANTAGRUEL (1565) In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of Pantagruel). THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature,and ideas.
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Rijksmuseum. The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national library with a collection consisting of 1 million objects, dedicated to arts, crafts, and history from the years 1200 to 2000. Around 8000 objects are currently on display in the museum and some 125,000 high-resolution images are available through its online collections with plans to addanother
PRIVACY POLICY
The Public Domain Review is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and we have taken measures to be GDPR compliant. We know your privacy is important to you and will only use your personal information to provide the products and services you have requested. A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK (1711) A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift.The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle and his Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665), in which various everyday subjects (mirrors, fruit-trees, fish) were likened to religious themes - man's relationship to God, man's relationship to THE CITY OF TRUTH, OR, ETHICS (1609) The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609) Published in Paris at the beginning of the 17th century by Ambroise and Jérôme Drouart, Civitas Veri sive Morum (The City of Truth; or, Ethics) presents an allegorical poem by Bartolomeo Del Bene (1515-1595) — a reworking of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics — adorned with a series ofwonderful emblem
THE TALE OF BEATRIX POTTER This year, the works of one of the most successful and universal writers of all time came into the public domain in many countries around the world. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - in all, thirty-three books bearing the name “Beatrix Potter” have sold close to 200 million copies. ARNOLDUS MONTANUS' NEW AND UNKNOWN WORLD (1671) A selection of from the 125 copper engravings featured in Dutch explorer, missionary, and theologian Arnoldus Montanus' monumental De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (1671). The rather impressive full title of the work in English reads "The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland, Containing the Origin of the Americans and South-landers, remarkable voyages thither PICTURING A VOICE: MARGARET WATTS HUGHES AND THE EIDOPHONE November 26, 2019. A so-called Impression Figure by Margaret Watts Hughes, pigment on glass, date unknown. Courtesy of Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. R ecorded sound began as much a visual and textual concern as an auditory one. From its inception the phenomenon necessarily relied upon the act — via the medium of a vibratingsurface
ANCIENT COURSES: HAROLD FISK’S MEANDER MAPS OF THE thousands of years of course changes compressed into a single image by a clever mapmaker with an artistic eye. Looking at them, you're invited to imagine the Mississippi as it was during the European exploration of the Americas in the 1500s, during the Cahokia civilization in the 1200s (when this city's population matched London's), when the first humans came upon the river more than 12,000 AMERICAN FREEDOM: SINCLAIR LEWIS AND THE OPEN ROAD Some three decades before Kerouac and friends hit the road, Sinclair Lewis published Free Air , one of the very first novels about an automobile-powered road trip across the United States. Steven Michels looks at the particular vision of freedom espoused in the THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature,and ideas.
RIJKSMUSEUM
Rijksmuseum. The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national library with a collection consisting of 1 million objects, dedicated to arts, crafts, and history from the years 1200 to 2000. Around 8000 objects are currently on display in the museum and some 125,000 high-resolution images are available through its online collections with plans to addanother
PRIVACY POLICY
The Public Domain Review is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and we have taken measures to be GDPR compliant. We know your privacy is important to you and will only use your personal information to provide the products and services you have requested. A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK (1711) A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift.The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle and his Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665), in which various everyday subjects (mirrors, fruit-trees, fish) were likened to religious themes - man's relationship to God, man's relationship to THE CITY OF TRUTH, OR, ETHICS (1609) The City of Truth, or, Ethics (1609) Published in Paris at the beginning of the 17th century by Ambroise and Jérôme Drouart, Civitas Veri sive Morum (The City of Truth; or, Ethics) presents an allegorical poem by Bartolomeo Del Bene (1515-1595) — a reworking of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics — adorned with a series ofwonderful emblem
THE TALE OF BEATRIX POTTER This year, the works of one of the most successful and universal writers of all time came into the public domain in many countries around the world. The Tale of Peter Rabbit, The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin, The Tale of Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Jemima Puddle-Duck - in all, thirty-three books bearing the name “Beatrix Potter” have sold close to 200 million copies. ARNOLDUS MONTANUS' NEW AND UNKNOWN WORLD (1671) A selection of from the 125 copper engravings featured in Dutch explorer, missionary, and theologian Arnoldus Montanus' monumental De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (1671). The rather impressive full title of the work in English reads "The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland, Containing the Origin of the Americans and South-landers, remarkable voyages thither PICTURING A VOICE: MARGARET WATTS HUGHES AND THE EIDOPHONE November 26, 2019. A so-called Impression Figure by Margaret Watts Hughes, pigment on glass, date unknown. Courtesy of Cyfarthfa Castle Museum and Art Gallery. R ecorded sound began as much a visual and textual concern as an auditory one. From its inception the phenomenon necessarily relied upon the act — via the medium of a vibratingsurface
ANCIENT COURSES: HAROLD FISK’S MEANDER MAPS OF THE thousands of years of course changes compressed into a single image by a clever mapmaker with an artistic eye. Looking at them, you're invited to imagine the Mississippi as it was during the European exploration of the Americas in the 1500s, during the Cahokia civilization in the 1200s (when this city's population matched London's), when the first humans came upon the river more than 12,000 AMERICAN FREEDOM: SINCLAIR LEWIS AND THE OPEN ROAD Some three decades before Kerouac and friends hit the road, Sinclair Lewis published Free Air , one of the very first novels about an automobile-powered road trip across the United States. Steven Michels looks at the particular vision of freedom espoused in the PUBLIC DOMAIN BACKGROUNDS FOR ZOOM So we thought we'd provide you with some images to brighten up your backdrops — from a dreamy Bosch landscape to a 70's space colony, from an operatic "Hall of Stars" to an Antarctic expedition. We've prepped them for Zoom as regards dimensions, but they are sure to be useful for other video conferencing/chat tools that you may be into. ENTRIES TO A COMPETITION TO DESIGN A NEW TOWER IN LONDON A selection of the more inventive entries to a competition to design a new tower for London. The year previous, 1889, saw the hugely successful Eiffel Tower go up in the centre of Paris, and the good people of London, not to be outdone, decided to get one of their own. THE FOURTH DIMENSION AND THE BIBLE (1922) William Anthony Granville, The Fourth Dimension and the Bible; Boston: R.G. Badger, 1922. In many respects, the Victorian era — with its revelations of Darwin, dinosaurs, etc. — was not the simplest time to be a religiously-minded scientist: despair and doubt were rife. But towards the end of the nineteenth century, inspired by explorations THE CITY OF TRUTH, OR, ETHICS (1609) Published in Paris at the beginning of the 17th century by Ambroise and Jérôme Drouart, Civitas Veri sive Morum (The City of Truth; or, Ethics) presents an allegorical poem by Bartolomeo Del Bene (1515-1595) — a reworking of Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics — adorned with a series of wonderful emblem illustrations (most of whichwe feature below).
EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS Detail from a photograph of celebrations in Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1905 — Source. Woman in a decorated carriage on Juneteenth, in front of Antioch Baptist Church in Houston's Fourth Ward, ca. 1900 — Source. Martha Yates Jones (left) and Pinkie Yates (right), daughters of Rev. Jack Yates, in a decorated carriage in front of a house, 1908 THE NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL IN ART (1460–1921) The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921) "Notre-Dame Cathedral is the very soul of Paris but so much more—it is a touchstone for all that is the best about the world, and a monument to the highest aspirations of artistic achievement that transcends religion and time. It has survived so much—from the French Revolution to Nazioccupation
FROM INDIA TO THE PLANET MARS (1900) From India to the planet Mars : a study of a case of somnambulism with glossolalia. By Théodore Flournoy; 1900; Harper & Bros, New York and London. This book details the experiences of Théodore Flournoy (1854-1920), professor of psychology at the University of Geneva, during the five years he spent attending the seances of HélèneSmith, a
B. W. BETTS' GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY B. W. Betts' Geometrical Psychology. Diagrams from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation: an abstract of the theories and diagrams of B. W. Betts (1887) by Louisa S. Cook, which details New Zealander Benjamin Bett's remarkable attempts to mathematically model the evolution of human consciousness throughgeometric forms.
THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described by John of Patmos in his Book of Revelations, the last book of the New Testament. The chapter tells of a "'book', or 'scroll', in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals". THE DROLATIC DREAMS OF PANTAGRUEL (1565) In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of Pantagruel). THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature,and ideas.
EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS Detail from a photograph of celebrations in Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1905 — Source. Woman in a decorated carriage on Juneteenth, in front of Antioch Baptist Church in Houston's Fourth Ward, ca. 1900 — Source. Martha Yates Jones (left) and Pinkie Yates (right), daughters of Rev. Jack Yates, in a decorated carriage in front of a house, 1908 B. W. BETTS' GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY B. W. Betts' Geometrical Psychology. Diagrams from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation: an abstract of the theories and diagrams of B. W. Betts (1887) by Louisa S. Cook, which details New Zealander Benjamin Bett's remarkable attempts to mathematically model the evolution of human consciousness throughgeometric forms.
THE CONCEALED EROTIC PAINTINGS OF SOMMONTE (19TH CENTURY The Concealed Erotic Paintings of Sommonte (19th Century) This wonderfully unique object, from the collection of Henry Wellcome, stands perhaps as something of an embodiment itself of the nineteenth century's complex attitudes to sex — at first glance exuding nothing but chasteness (cue images of covered-up piano legs, lewd ankles,etc.), but
THE ASTROLOGER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1825) The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century covers, in quite dramatic prose, a multitude of occult topics in ten chapters, or “circles”: Circle 2 describes several historical disasters and the omens that foretold them. Circle 3 concerns raising spirits from the dead with magic charms and incantations. Circle 6 astrologically explains thelives
THE NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL IN ART (1460–1921) The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921) "Notre-Dame Cathedral is the very soul of Paris but so much more—it is a touchstone for all that is the best about the world, and a monument to the highest aspirations of artistic achievement that transcends religion and time. It has survived so much—from the French Revolution to Nazioccupation
A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK (1711) A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift.The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle and his Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665), in which various everyday subjects (mirrors, fruit-trees, fish) were likened to religious themes - man's relationship to God, man's relationship to THE DROLATIC DREAMS OF PANTAGRUEL (1565) In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of Pantagruel). PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A SÉANCE WITH EVA CARRIÈRE (1913) This remarkable series of photographs are from a book entitled Phenomena of Materialisation by German physician and psychic researcher Baron von Schrenck-Notzing. The book focuses on a series of séances that Schrenck-Notzing witnessed between the years 1909 and 1913 involving the French medium Eva Carrière, or Eva C. Born Marthe Béraud, Carrière changed her name in 1909 to begin her career LEAVING THE OPERA IN THE YEAR 2000 Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000. Le Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 is a print from the late-19th century depicting a futuristic view of air travel over Paris as people leave the opera. Many types of aircraft are shown including flying buses, limousines and, what are presumably, police vehicles. THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature,and ideas.
EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS Detail from a photograph of celebrations in Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1905 — Source. Woman in a decorated carriage on Juneteenth, in front of Antioch Baptist Church in Houston's Fourth Ward, ca. 1900 — Source. Martha Yates Jones (left) and Pinkie Yates (right), daughters of Rev. Jack Yates, in a decorated carriage in front of a house, 1908 B. W. BETTS' GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY B. W. Betts' Geometrical Psychology. Diagrams from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation: an abstract of the theories and diagrams of B. W. Betts (1887) by Louisa S. Cook, which details New Zealander Benjamin Bett's remarkable attempts to mathematically model the evolution of human consciousness throughgeometric forms.
THE CONCEALED EROTIC PAINTINGS OF SOMMONTE (19TH CENTURY The Concealed Erotic Paintings of Sommonte (19th Century) This wonderfully unique object, from the collection of Henry Wellcome, stands perhaps as something of an embodiment itself of the nineteenth century's complex attitudes to sex — at first glance exuding nothing but chasteness (cue images of covered-up piano legs, lewd ankles,etc.), but
THE ASTROLOGER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1825) The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century covers, in quite dramatic prose, a multitude of occult topics in ten chapters, or “circles”: Circle 2 describes several historical disasters and the omens that foretold them. Circle 3 concerns raising spirits from the dead with magic charms and incantations. Circle 6 astrologically explains thelives
THE NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL IN ART (1460–1921) The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921) "Notre-Dame Cathedral is the very soul of Paris but so much more—it is a touchstone for all that is the best about the world, and a monument to the highest aspirations of artistic achievement that transcends religion and time. It has survived so much—from the French Revolution to Nazioccupation
A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK (1711) A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift.The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle and his Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665), in which various everyday subjects (mirrors, fruit-trees, fish) were likened to religious themes - man's relationship to God, man's relationship to THE DROLATIC DREAMS OF PANTAGRUEL (1565) In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of Pantagruel). PHOTOGRAPHS FROM A SÉANCE WITH EVA CARRIÈRE (1913) This remarkable series of photographs are from a book entitled Phenomena of Materialisation by German physician and psychic researcher Baron von Schrenck-Notzing. The book focuses on a series of séances that Schrenck-Notzing witnessed between the years 1909 and 1913 involving the French medium Eva Carrière, or Eva C. Born Marthe Béraud, Carrière changed her name in 1909 to begin her career LEAVING THE OPERA IN THE YEAR 2000 Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000. Le Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 is a print from the late-19th century depicting a futuristic view of air travel over Paris as people leave the opera. Many types of aircraft are shown including flying buses, limousines and, what are presumably, police vehicles.COLLECTIONS
We curate collections of images, books, audio and film, shining a light on curiosities and wonders from a wide range of online archives. Leaning toward the surprising, the strange, and the beautiful, we hope to provide an ever-growing cabinet of curiosities for the digital age. THE ASTROLOGER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1825) The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century covers, in quite dramatic prose, a multitude of occult topics in ten chapters, or “circles”: Circle 2 describes several historical disasters and the omens that foretold them. Circle 3 concerns raising spirits from the dead with magic charms and incantations. Circle 6 astrologically explains thelives
THE NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL IN ART (1460–1921) The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921) "Notre-Dame Cathedral is the very soul of Paris but so much more—it is a touchstone for all that is the best about the world, and a monument to the highest aspirations of artistic achievement that transcends religion and time. It has survived so much—from the French Revolution to Nazioccupation
THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described by John of Patmos in his Book of Revelations, the last book of the New Testament. The chapter tells of a "'book', or 'scroll', in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals". VISUALIZING MIGRAINES: THE ATTEMPTS OF HUBERT AIRY AND Discontent with suffering alone, the physician Hubert Airy set out to draw and share his migraine experiences in 1870. He corresponded frequently with the astronomer John Herschel, who, like Fothergill, found himself overcome, during an otherwise uneventful breakfast, by a debilitating “pattern in straight-lined angular forms, very much in general aspect like the drawing of a fortification B. W. BETTS' GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY B. W. Betts' Geometrical Psychology. Diagrams from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation: an abstract of the theories and diagrams of B. W. Betts (1887) by Louisa S. Cook, which details New Zealander Benjamin Bett's remarkable attempts to mathematically model the evolution of human consciousness throughgeometric forms.
THE DROLATIC DREAMS OF PANTAGRUEL (1565) In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of Pantagruel). ANCIENT COURSES: HAROLD FISK’S MEANDER MAPS OF THE thousands of years of course changes compressed into a single image by a clever mapmaker with an artistic eye. Looking at them, you're invited to imagine the Mississippi as it was during the European exploration of the Americas in the 1500s, during the Cahokia civilization in the 1200s (when this city's population matched London's), when the first humans came upon the river more than 12,000 THE SONNETS OF MICHELANGELO (1904 EDITION) The Sonnets of Michaelangelo Buanarotti, now for the first time translated into rhymed English, 2d ed., by John Addington Symonds; 1904; Smith, Elder, & Co., C. Scribner's Sons in London, New York. Most famous for painting the Sistine Chapel and his sculpture of David, the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo was also a prolificpoet, in his
WAS CHARLES DARWIN AN ATHEIST? Published. June 28, 2011. The religious views of Charles Darwin, the venerable Victorian naturalist and author of the Origin of Species (1859) never cease to interest modern readers. Bookshops and the internet are well-stocked with discussions of Darwin’s views and the implications of his theory of evolution for religion. THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature,and ideas.
EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS Detail from a photograph of celebrations in Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1905 — Source. Woman in a decorated carriage on Juneteenth, in front of Antioch Baptist Church in Houston's Fourth Ward, ca. 1900 — Source. Martha Yates Jones (left) and Pinkie Yates (right), daughters of Rev. Jack Yates, in a decorated carriage in front of a house, 1908 A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK (1711) A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift.The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle and his Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665), in which various everyday subjects (mirrors, fruit-trees, fish) were likened to religious themes - man's relationship to God, man's relationship to THE CONCEALED EROTIC PAINTINGS OF SOMMONTE (19TH CENTURY The Concealed Erotic Paintings of Sommonte (19th Century) This wonderfully unique object, from the collection of Henry Wellcome, stands perhaps as something of an embodiment itself of the nineteenth century's complex attitudes to sex — at first glance exuding nothing but chasteness (cue images of covered-up piano legs, lewd ankles,etc.), but
THE NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL IN ART (1460–1921) The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921) "Notre-Dame Cathedral is the very soul of Paris but so much more—it is a touchstone for all that is the best about the world, and a monument to the highest aspirations of artistic achievement that transcends religion and time. It has survived so much—from the French Revolution to Nazioccupation
THE ASTROLOGER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1825) The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century covers, in quite dramatic prose, a multitude of occult topics in ten chapters, or “circles”: Circle 2 describes several historical disasters and the omens that foretold them. Circle 3 concerns raising spirits from the dead with magic charms and incantations. Circle 6 astrologically explains thelives
THE DROLATIC DREAMS OF PANTAGRUEL (1565) In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of Pantagruel). LEAVING THE OPERA IN THE YEAR 2000 Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000. Le Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 is a print from the late-19th century depicting a futuristic view of air travel over Paris as people leave the opera. Many types of aircraft are shown including flying buses, limousines and, what are presumably, police vehicles. THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS: AN ALPHABET OF FLORAL EMBLEMS The Language of Flowers: An Alphabet of Floral Emblems (1857) The Victorian interest in botany went hand in hand with the Victorian interest in the “language of flowers”. At a time when many feelings were discouraged and repressed, flowers, whether sent singly or in complicated arrangements, communicated the incommunicable. THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLYWELL STREET: HOME TO VICTORIAN Victorian sexuality is often considered synonymous with prudishness, conjuring images of covered-up piano legs and dark ankle-length skirts. Historian Matthew Green uncovers a quite different scene in the sordid story of Holywell St, 19th-century London's epicentre oferotica and smut.
THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature,and ideas.
EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS Detail from a photograph of celebrations in Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1905 — Source. Woman in a decorated carriage on Juneteenth, in front of Antioch Baptist Church in Houston's Fourth Ward, ca. 1900 — Source. Martha Yates Jones (left) and Pinkie Yates (right), daughters of Rev. Jack Yates, in a decorated carriage in front of a house, 1908 A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK (1711) A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift.The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle and his Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665), in which various everyday subjects (mirrors, fruit-trees, fish) were likened to religious themes - man's relationship to God, man's relationship to THE CONCEALED EROTIC PAINTINGS OF SOMMONTE (19TH CENTURY The Concealed Erotic Paintings of Sommonte (19th Century) This wonderfully unique object, from the collection of Henry Wellcome, stands perhaps as something of an embodiment itself of the nineteenth century's complex attitudes to sex — at first glance exuding nothing but chasteness (cue images of covered-up piano legs, lewd ankles,etc.), but
THE NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL IN ART (1460–1921) The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921) "Notre-Dame Cathedral is the very soul of Paris but so much more—it is a touchstone for all that is the best about the world, and a monument to the highest aspirations of artistic achievement that transcends religion and time. It has survived so much—from the French Revolution to Nazioccupation
THE ASTROLOGER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1825) The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century covers, in quite dramatic prose, a multitude of occult topics in ten chapters, or “circles”: Circle 2 describes several historical disasters and the omens that foretold them. Circle 3 concerns raising spirits from the dead with magic charms and incantations. Circle 6 astrologically explains thelives
THE DROLATIC DREAMS OF PANTAGRUEL (1565) In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of Pantagruel). LEAVING THE OPERA IN THE YEAR 2000 Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000. Le Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 is a print from the late-19th century depicting a futuristic view of air travel over Paris as people leave the opera. Many types of aircraft are shown including flying buses, limousines and, what are presumably, police vehicles. THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS: AN ALPHABET OF FLORAL EMBLEMS The Language of Flowers: An Alphabet of Floral Emblems (1857) The Victorian interest in botany went hand in hand with the Victorian interest in the “language of flowers”. At a time when many feelings were discouraged and repressed, flowers, whether sent singly or in complicated arrangements, communicated the incommunicable. THE SECRET HISTORY OF HOLYWELL STREET: HOME TO VICTORIAN Victorian sexuality is often considered synonymous with prudishness, conjuring images of covered-up piano legs and dark ankle-length skirts. Historian Matthew Green uncovers a quite different scene in the sordid story of Holywell St, 19th-century London's epicentre oferotica and smut.
COLLECTIONS
We curate collections of images, books, audio and film, shining a light on curiosities and wonders from a wide range of online archives. Leaning toward the surprising, the strange, and the beautiful, we hope to provide an ever-growing cabinet of curiosities for the digital age. THE ASTROLOGER OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1825) The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century covers, in quite dramatic prose, a multitude of occult topics in ten chapters, or “circles”: Circle 2 describes several historical disasters and the omens that foretold them. Circle 3 concerns raising spirits from the dead with magic charms and incantations. Circle 6 astrologically explains thelives
THE NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL IN ART (1460–1921) The Notre-Dame Cathedral in Art (1460–1921) "Notre-Dame Cathedral is the very soul of Paris but so much more—it is a touchstone for all that is the best about the world, and a monument to the highest aspirations of artistic achievement that transcends religion and time. It has survived so much—from the French Revolution to Nazioccupation
THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are described by John of Patmos in his Book of Revelations, the last book of the New Testament. The chapter tells of a "'book', or 'scroll', in God's right hand that is sealed with seven seals". VISUALIZING MIGRAINES: THE ATTEMPTS OF HUBERT AIRY AND Discontent with suffering alone, the physician Hubert Airy set out to draw and share his migraine experiences in 1870. He corresponded frequently with the astronomer John Herschel, who, like Fothergill, found himself overcome, during an otherwise uneventful breakfast, by a debilitating “pattern in straight-lined angular forms, very much in general aspect like the drawing of a fortification B. W. BETTS' GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY B. W. Betts' Geometrical Psychology. Diagrams from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation: an abstract of the theories and diagrams of B. W. Betts (1887) by Louisa S. Cook, which details New Zealander Benjamin Bett's remarkable attempts to mathematically model the evolution of human consciousness throughgeometric forms.
THE DROLATIC DREAMS OF PANTAGRUEL (1565) In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of Pantagruel). ANCIENT COURSES: HAROLD FISK’S MEANDER MAPS OF THE thousands of years of course changes compressed into a single image by a clever mapmaker with an artistic eye. Looking at them, you're invited to imagine the Mississippi as it was during the European exploration of the Americas in the 1500s, during the Cahokia civilization in the 1200s (when this city's population matched London's), when the first humans came upon the river more than 12,000 THE SONNETS OF MICHELANGELO (1904 EDITION) The Sonnets of Michaelangelo Buanarotti, now for the first time translated into rhymed English, 2d ed., by John Addington Symonds; 1904; Smith, Elder, & Co., C. Scribner's Sons in London, New York. Most famous for painting the Sistine Chapel and his sculpture of David, the Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo was also a prolificpoet, in his
WAS CHARLES DARWIN AN ATHEIST? Published. June 28, 2011. The religious views of Charles Darwin, the venerable Victorian naturalist and author of the Origin of Species (1859) never cease to interest modern readers. Bookshops and the internet are well-stocked with discussions of Darwin’s views and the implications of his theory of evolution for religion. THE PUBLIC DOMAIN REVIEW Online journal and not-for-profit project dedicated to the exploration of curious and compelling works from the history of art, literature,and ideas.
RIJKSMUSEUM
Rijksmuseum. The Rijksmuseum is a Dutch national library with a collection consisting of 1 million objects, dedicated to arts, crafts, and history from the years 1200 to 2000. Around 8000 objects are currently on display in the museum and some 125,000 high-resolution images are available through its online collections with plans to addanother
B. W. BETTS' GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY B. W. Betts' Geometrical Psychology. Diagrams from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation: an abstract of the theories and diagrams of B. W. Betts (1887) by Louisa S. Cook, which details New Zealander Benjamin Bett's remarkable attempts to mathematically model the evolution of human consciousness throughgeometric forms.
A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK (1711) A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift.The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle and his Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665), in which various everyday subjects (mirrors, fruit-trees, fish) were likened to religious themes - man's relationship to God, man's relationship to THE FOURTH DIMENSION AND THE BIBLE (1922) William Anthony Granville, The Fourth Dimension and the Bible; Boston: R.G. Badger, 1922. In many respects, the Victorian era — with its revelations of Darwin, dinosaurs, etc. — was not the simplest time to be a religiously-minded scientist: despair and doubt were rife. But towards the end of the nineteenth century, inspired by explorations THE NEWGATE CALENDAR (1795) Comprised of the tales of both famous and lesser-known criminals from the 18th and 19th centuries and named after Newgate Prison in London, the Newgate Calendar became one of the most popular books of its day, said to be as much a part of the British household as the Bible. Born out of broadsides - so called single-sided sheets with ballads, biographies or last-minute confessions sold at THE DROLATIC DREAMS OF PANTAGRUEL (1565) In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of Pantagruel). MARVELS OF THINGS CREATED AND MIRACULOUS ASPECTS OF THINGS Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing. Images from an illustrated version of a 13th-century Arabic treatise by Zakariya al-Qazwini titled ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing). The text is probably the best knownexample of
ARNOLDUS MONTANUS' NEW AND UNKNOWN WORLD (1671) A selection of from the 125 copper engravings featured in Dutch explorer, missionary, and theologian Arnoldus Montanus' monumental De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (1671). The rather impressive full title of the work in English reads "The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland, Containing the Origin of the Americans and South-landers, remarkable voyages thither SICKO DOCTORS: SUFFERING AND SADISM IN 19TH-CENTURY Sicko Doctors. Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America. By Chelsea Davis. American fiction of the 19th century often featured a ghoulish figure, the cruel doctor, whose unfeeling fascination with bodily suffering readers found both unnerving and entirely plausible. Looking at novels by Louisa May Alcott, James Fenimore Cooper, andHerman
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B. W. BETTS' GEOMETRICAL PSYCHOLOGY B. W. Betts' Geometrical Psychology. Diagrams from Geometrical psychology, or, The science of representation: an abstract of the theories and diagrams of B. W. Betts (1887) by Louisa S. Cook, which details New Zealander Benjamin Bett's remarkable attempts to mathematically model the evolution of human consciousness throughgeometric forms.
A MEDITATION UPON A BROOMSTICK (1711) A classic piece of parody from the great Anglo-Irish satirist and author of Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift.The particular butt of Swift's sharp pen in this instance was Robert Boyle and his Occasional Reflections upon Several Subjects (1665), in which various everyday subjects (mirrors, fruit-trees, fish) were likened to religious themes - man's relationship to God, man's relationship to THE FOURTH DIMENSION AND THE BIBLE (1922) William Anthony Granville, The Fourth Dimension and the Bible; Boston: R.G. Badger, 1922. In many respects, the Victorian era — with its revelations of Darwin, dinosaurs, etc. — was not the simplest time to be a religiously-minded scientist: despair and doubt were rife. But towards the end of the nineteenth century, inspired by explorations THE NEWGATE CALENDAR (1795) Comprised of the tales of both famous and lesser-known criminals from the 18th and 19th centuries and named after Newgate Prison in London, the Newgate Calendar became one of the most popular books of its day, said to be as much a part of the British household as the Bible. Born out of broadsides - so called single-sided sheets with ballads, biographies or last-minute confessions sold at THE DROLATIC DREAMS OF PANTAGRUEL (1565) In 1565, twelve years after the death of François Rabelais (1494-1553) — the French Renaissance author best known for his satirical masterpiece The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel, the bawdy tale of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel — the Parisian bookseller and publisher Richard Breton brought out Les songes drolatiques de Pantagruel (The drolatic dreams of Pantagruel). MARVELS OF THINGS CREATED AND MIRACULOUS ASPECTS OF THINGS Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing. Images from an illustrated version of a 13th-century Arabic treatise by Zakariya al-Qazwini titled ‘Ajā’ib al-makhlūqāt wa-gharā’ib al-mawjūdāt (Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing). The text is probably the best knownexample of
ARNOLDUS MONTANUS' NEW AND UNKNOWN WORLD (1671) A selection of from the 125 copper engravings featured in Dutch explorer, missionary, and theologian Arnoldus Montanus' monumental De Nieuwe en Onbekende Weereld (1671). The rather impressive full title of the work in English reads "The New and Unknown World: or Description of America and the Southland, Containing the Origin of the Americans and South-landers, remarkable voyages thither SICKO DOCTORS: SUFFERING AND SADISM IN 19TH-CENTURY Sicko Doctors. Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America. By Chelsea Davis. American fiction of the 19th century often featured a ghoulish figure, the cruel doctor, whose unfeeling fascination with bodily suffering readers found both unnerving and entirely plausible. Looking at novels by Louisa May Alcott, James Fenimore Cooper, andHerman
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YGGDRASIL: THE SACRED ASH TREE OF NORSE MYTHOLOGY The sacred Norse Yggdrasil — says E. O. James in his classic archaeological study The Tree of Life (1966) — is perhaps “the Cosmic tree par excellence”. A giant ash tree described in both the Poetic Edda and Snorri Sturluson’s 13th-century Prose Edda, Yggdrasil stands at the absolute center of the Norse cosmos.Its roots connect it with the Nine Worlds, and it is tended by the three EARLY PHOTOGRAPHS OF JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS Detail from a photograph of celebrations in Richmond, Virginia, ca. 1905 — Source. Woman in a decorated carriage on Juneteenth, in front of Antioch Baptist Church in Houston's Fourth Ward, ca. 1900 — Source. Martha Yates Jones (left) and Pinkie Yates (right), daughters of Rev. Jack Yates, in a decorated carriage in front of a house, 1908 HORSE DRAWN FIRE ENGINES (1896) Horse Drawn Fire Engines (1896) Four horse drawn fire engines roar up a snow-covered Newark, New Jersey, street while spectators watch from the sidelines. Until the mid-19th century most fire engines were manoeuvred by men, but the introduction of horse-drawn fire engines considerably improved the response time to incidents. ANCIENT COURSES: HAROLD FISK’S MEANDER MAPS OF THE thousands of years of course changes compressed into a single image by a clever mapmaker with an artistic eye. Looking at them, you're invited to imagine the Mississippi as it was during the European exploration of the Americas in the 1500s, during the Cahokia civilization in the 1200s (when this city's population matched London's), when the first humans came upon the river more than 12,000 SICKO DOCTORS: SUFFERING AND SADISM IN 19TH-CENTURY Sicko Doctors. Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America. By Chelsea Davis. American fiction of the 19th century often featured a ghoulish figure, the cruel doctor, whose unfeeling fascination with bodily suffering readers found both unnerving and entirely plausible. Looking at novels by Louisa May Alcott, James Fenimore Cooper, andHerman
WAS CHARLES DARWIN AN ATHEIST? Published. June 28, 2011. The religious views of Charles Darwin, the venerable Victorian naturalist and author of the Origin of Species (1859) never cease to interest modern readers. Bookshops and the internet are well-stocked with discussions of Darwin’s views and the implications of his theory of evolution for religion. LEAVING THE OPERA IN THE YEAR 2000 Leaving the Opera in the Year 2000. Le Sortie de l'opéra en l'an 2000 is a print from the late-19th century depicting a futuristic view of air travel over Paris as people leave the opera. Many types of aircraft are shown including flying buses, limousines and, what are presumably, police vehicles. This app works best with JavaScript enabled.* Home
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