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

An <n>Eye Miniature</n> by an unknown <n>British Painter</n>, ca. 1800.

A photomicrograph of the diatom <n>Heliopelta metii</n> by <n>Arthur E. Smith</n> from the 1909 book <n>Nature Through Microscope and Camera</n>.

An 1881 illustration of the jellyfish <n>Pectanthis asteroides</n> by artist <n>Ernst Haeckel</n>.

<n>Sea Holly</n>, a black and white photograph by <n>Karl Blossfeldt</n>.

A photographic study from <n>The Splash of a Drop</n> (1895) by <n>Arthur Mason Worthington</n>.

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

A photograph of a plaster model of the lunar crater <n>Copernicus</n> by <n>James Nasmyth</n>, published in 1874.

Photograph by <n>H. A. Lawrence</n> of the <n>Solar Eclipse from Caroline Island</n>, 1883.

Underside of a leaf from <n>William Sharp</n>'s 1854 series, <n>Victoria Regia; or, The Great Water Lily of America</n>.

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

<n>Figure generated by a vibrating rod</n> by <n>Étienne-Jules Marey</n>, c. 1890-92.

<n>The Eye, like a strange balloon, moves towards infinity</n> (1882), a lithograph by <n>Odilon Redon</n>.

An illustration from <n>Mori Yuzan</n>'s 1903 Japanese design guide, <n>Hamonshu</n>.

<n>The Planet Saturn</n>, a chromolithograph by <n>Étienne Léopold Trouvelot</n> from an observation made in 1874.

<n>Ovipositor of female fly</n>, an illustration by <n>Martin Frobenius Ledermüller</n> from 1762.

Photographic plate from the 1882 <n>Transit of Venus</n>, taken by an American expedition to Chile.

Plate 7 from <n>Augustus Bozzi Granville</n>'s <n>Graphic Illustrations of Abortion</n> (1834), by <n>Joseph Perry</n>.

<n>Eye Miniature</n>, a watercolor on ivory by an unknown <n>British Painter</n>, ca. 1840.

Chromolithograph from an 1876 watercolor by <n>Eduard Pechuël-Loesche</n> for a study by <n>Johann Kiessling</n>.

A microphotograph of a diatom by <n>Arthur E. Smith</n> from the 1909 book <n>Nature Through Microscope and Camera</n>.