The <n>Capricornus</n> constellation from <n>Urania's Mirror</n>, an 1824 star chart engraved by <n>Sidney Hall</n>.

An anonymous 1544 woodcut, <n>Paradiso, Canto XXVII: The Sphere of Fixed Stars</n>, depicts <n>Dante Alighieri</n> and <n>Beatrice</n> from <n>The Divine Comedy</n>.

<n>The November Meteors</n> (1881) by <n>Étienne Léopold Trouvelot</n>, a chromolithograph of the 1868 <n>Leonid meteor shower</n>.

<n>The Alchemical Lion</n>, an illustration from the late 18th-century manuscript <n>Clavis Artis</n> by <n>Zoroaster</n>.

Illustration of flowers and shells by <n>Isaac Brunn</n> from <n>Philipp Hainhofer</n>'s 17th-century <n>Große Stammbuch</n>.

Engraving of <n>Castor and Pollux</n> from <n>Urania's Mirror</n> by <n>Sidney Hall</n>, 1824.

<n>Nebuleuse de la Lyre</n>, an 1885 photograph by <n>Paul Henry</n> and <n>Prosper Henry</n>.

<n>Aries and Musca Borealis</n> (1825), an engraving by <n>Sidney Hall</n> from the celestial card set <n>Urania's Mirror</n>.

<n>A Section of the Constellation Cygnus</n>, an 1885 photograph by <n>Paul Henry</n>.

A vintage botanical print titled <n>Flowers from Jerusalem</n>, from the <n>New York Public Library Digital Collections</n>.

<n>Leo Major and Leo Minor</n>, an 1825 engraving by <n>Sidney Hall</n> from the chart set <n>Urania's Mirror</n>.

<n>Design for a Hookah Base</n>, a 19th-century Indian drawing in ink on paper.

An 1824 illustration of the constellations <n>Sagittarius</n> and <n>Corona Australis</n> by <n>Sidney Hall</n> from <n>Urania's Mirror</n>.

<n>Aurora Borealis</n> by <n>Étienne Léopold Trouvelot</n>, a chromolithograph from 1881.

An 1854 chromolithograph of the <n>Victoria Regia</n> water lily by artist <n>William Sharp</n>.

<n>Virgo</n>, an 1825 astronomical chart engraved by <n>Sidney Hall</n> for the <n>Urania's Mirror</n> collection.

Plate 50 from <n>Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium</n> (1705) by <n>Maria Sibylla Merian</n>.

Scorpio, Plate 23 from the 1824 publication <n>Urania's Mirror</n>, engraved by <n>Sidney Hall</n>.

A botanical illustration of <n>Bonafacia</n> from the 15th-century Italian herbal manuscript, <n>Erbario</n>.

Illustration by <n>Georges Rochegrosse</n> for <n>Camille Flammarion</n>'s 1894 book <n>Omega: The Last Days of the World</n>.

<n>Leaf of a Plant</n>, a salted paper print from ca. 1840 by <n>William Henry Fox Talbot</n>.

Page from <n>Mira calligraphiae monumenta</n> with calligraphy by <n>Georg Bocskay</n> and illuminations by <n>Joris Hoefnagel</n>.

A 1928 photogravure by <n>Karl Blossfeldt</n> from his book <n>Urformen der Kunst</n> (Art Forms in Nature).

An 1831 engraving of the <n>Pisces</n> constellation by <n>Sidney Hall</n> from the card set <n>Urania's Mirror</n>.

A folio from the <n>Erbario</n>, a 15th-century herbal manuscript from Northern Italy, ca. 1480.

<n>The Quadrangular Passion-flower</n> (1802), painted by <n>Peter Henderson</n> for <n>Robert John Thornton</n>'s Temple of Flora.

<n>Taurus</n>, an 1824 engraving by <n>Sidney Hall</n> from the astronomical card set <n>Urania's Mirror</n>.

<n>Botanical Specimen: Fern</n>, a photogenic drawing by <n>William Henry Fox Talbot</n>, 1839.