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Six astronomical models from <n>Athanasius Kircher</n>'s '<n>Iter extaticum coeleste</n>' (1660).

<n>Plate XIV</n> from <n>Alexander von Humboldt</n>'s book <n>Kosmos</n>, published in 1845.

<n>Le Coupe-Tête</n>, an etching from the series <n>Les jeux des petits polissons de Paris</n> by <n>Augustin de Saint-Aubin</n>.

<n>The Grand Piazza</n> (1761), an etching by <n>Giovanni Battista Piranesi</n> from his <n>Carceri d'invenzione</n> series.

<n>Essai lithographique</n>, a 1820 lithograph by <n>Louis Daguerre</n>.

Etching by <n>Jean-Baptiste Huet</n> from <n>Cahier de principes de desseins</n>, c. 1780–90.

Plate 19 from <n>Frederick Whitney</n>'s 1909 instructional book, <n>Blackboard Sketching</n>.

A c. 1800 <n>Drawing from the Bhagavata Purana</n> by a <n>Kangra painter</n>.

<n>Thomas Wright</n>'s 1750 illustration, <n>The satellite Systems, proportionable to one another</n>.

<n>The Halt!</n>, a collage by <n>John Bingley Garland</n> from his "Blood Collages" series, ca. 1850-60.

"<n>New Discoveries in Pneumaticks!...</n>" (1782), a caricature by <n>James Gillray</n> of <n>Charles James Fox</n>.

Plate 3 from the <n>Grand Leicestershire Steeple Chase</n> series by <n>Henry Thomas Alken</n>, 1830.