Old science aesthetic

I just discovered this wonderful anatomical chart (see above) from volume one of Ephraim Chambers' Cyclopaedia, published in 1728. A beautiful, hi-res version of the image is available in the Wikipedia commons; I highly encourage you to visit the original (here) which is well worth a long, involved perusing, but is, sadly, too large to include here. To encourage you to visit the original, I have selected out some of my favorite details above. You can also check out the entire digitized book…

1940s Laboratory

The site From Old Books is a stunning example of curated creativity, with high-resolution images that anyone can reuse

Stock image 1895-15758: Diagrams from a notebook by Leonardo da Vinci. Da Vinci (1452-1519) was the most outstanding Italian painter, sculptor, architect and engineer of the ...

J.J. Grandville , 'A Comet's Journey' , Illustration from 'Un Autre Monde', 1844. Who made the little green spacemen, well, green? Long before the midcentury Space Race set the standard for collective extraterrestrial clichés, people were having out-of-this-world experiences that chilled them dow