freeschmatochky

Photogravure of <n>Eryngium Bourgatii Mannetreau</n> (1928) by artist <n>Karl Blossfeldt</n>.

A 15th-century illustration from the Northern Italian herbal manuscript <n>Erbario: Penn MS LJS 419</n>.

Letters F-N from the <n>Mnemonic Alphabet</n> (1482) by <n>Jacobus Publicius</n>, from his treatise on the art of memory.

An 1862 illustration of <n>Collosphaera</n> radiolarians by <n>Ernst Haeckel</n> from his monograph <n>Die Radiolarien</n>.

The <n>Moon Model</n> by <n>Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt</n> and <n>Ernst Gustav August Dickert</n> at the <n>Field Columbian Museum</n>, 1898.

Photomicrograph of a <n>Butterfly's Tongue</n> by <n>Arthur E. Smith</n>, 1903.

An illustration of pollen grains from <n>Carl Julius Fritzsche</n>'s 1837 publication <n>Ueber den Pollen</n>.

<n>Amphitrite</n>, an illustration from the 1897 book on magic edited by <n>Albert A. Hopkins</n>.

From <n>The Splash of a Drop</n> (1895), a series of shadow photographs by physicist <n>Arthur Mason Worthington</n>.

<n>Spongosphaera streptacantha</n> and <n>Dictyosoma trigonizon</n> from <n>Ernst Haeckel</n>'s 1862 monograph <n>Die Radiolarien</n>.

A plate from <n>Anatomia Testudinis Europaeae</n> (1821), a work on turtle anatomy by <n>Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus</n>.

An 1862 illustration of Radiolaria by <n>Ernst Haeckel</n> from his monograph <n>Die Radiolarien</n>.

A series of <n>Instantaneous Shadow Photographs of the Splash of a Drop of Mercury</n>.

Photograph of <n>Mushroom Corals</n> by <n>William Saville-Kent</n> from 'The Great Barrier Reef of Australia' (1893).

<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>.