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<n>Plate I</n> from <n>Thomas Wright</n>'s <n>An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe</n> (1750).

Data visualization by <n>W. E. B. Du Bois</n> for the <n>Paris Exposition of 1900</n>.

A 1948 portrait of painter <n>Edward Hopper</n> by photographer <n>Berenice Abbott</n>.

Cover for <n>Physics & Microphysics</n> by <n>Louis de Broglie</n>, with a foreword by <n>Albert Einstein</n>.

<n>The Ordering of Paradise</n> (1855) by <n>Michelangelo Caetani</n>, a diagram from <n>Dante Alighieri</n>'s <n>Divine Comedy</n>.

Illustrations from the 1883 catalog for <n>Hirayama Fireworks</n>, a company founded by <n>Jinta Hirayama</n>.

"<n>The Planet Jupiter</n>" (1880), a chromolithograph by artist <n>Étienne Léopold Trouvelot</n>.

A 1900 infographic directed by <n>W. E. B. Du Bois</n> for the <n>Exposition Universelle</n> in Paris.

Poster titled <n>Universal decay: The death of all matter.</n> by <n>Philip Rempel</n> of <n>REZTOKIA</n>, 2023.

<n>Emblem X</n> from <n>Emblemata</n> (ca. 1580) by <n>Andrea Alciati</n>.

Ouattara Watts

A cross-section of Hell from <n>Dante Alighieri</n>'s Inferno, illustrated by <n>Michelangelo Caetani</n> in 1855.

<n>Circlet of Hooks on a Scolex</n>, a photomicrograph by <n>Arthur E. Smith</n> from the 1909 book <n>Nature through microscope and camera</n>.