Illustration of <n>Green fibrous oxide of uranium</n> by <n>James Sowerby</n> from <n>British Mineralogy</n>, 1804.

Illustration by <n>Alphonse de Neuville</n> for <n>Jules Verne</n>'s 1870 novel <n>Around the Moon</n>.

<n>Planetary System</n> from <n>Levi Walter Yaggy</n>'s <n>Yaggy's Geographical Study</n> portfolio, 1887.

<n>Une colique lunaire</n>, an 1870 illustration by <n>Émile-Antoine Bayard</n> for <n>Jules Verne</n>'s "<n>Autour de la Lune</n>."

An etching of the ruins of the <n>Temple of Apollo</n> at <n>Hadrian's Villa</n> by <n>Giovanni Battista Piranesi</n>, ca. 1768.

An 1806 illustration of crystallized black oxide of manganese by <n>James Sowerby</n> from <n>British Mineralogy</n>.

An 1806 illustration of Agate-Jasper by <n>James Sowerby</n> from his publication <n>British Mineralogy</n>.

The asteroid <n>Pallas</n>, from the 1825 astronomical card set <n>Urania's Mirror</n> by <n>Jehoshaphat Aspin</n>.

An etching of the Antonine Baths by <n>Giovanni Battista Piranesi</n>, circa 1765.

<n>The Moon—An Expired Planet</n>, an 1898 illustration by <n>Agnes Giberne</n>.

<n>Discomedusae</n> (1904), a lithograph by <n>Ernst Haeckel</n> from his book <n>Kunstformen der Natur</n>.