<n>The Creation of Light</n> (1824), a mezzotint by <n>John Martin</n> for John Milton's <n>Paradise Lost</n>.

<n>The Zodiacal Light</n> (1876) by <n>Étienne Léopold Trouvelot</n> from <n>The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings</n> (1882).

A 19th-century child's <n>hikeshi-banten</n> from Japan with a lining depicting a <n>shishi</n> and an elephant.

Chromolithograph by <n>Eduard Pechuël-Loesche</n> from <n>J. Kiessling</n>'s 'Twilight Investigations' (1886).

Portrait of a man, c. 1875. Photo by <n>Baron Raimund von Stillfried</n>.

<n>A Section of the Constellation Cygnus</n>, an 1885 photograph by <n>Paul Henry</n>.

<n>Celestograph</n>, an experimental photograph created by <n>August Strindberg</n> in 1894.

An illustration from <n>Tom Seidmann-Freud</n>'s 1924 book, <n>Buch der Hasengeschichten</n>.

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

Plate 130 from <n>Adolf Schmidt</n>'s <n>Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde</n> (1890).

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

THE LOGIC OF BASHO

<n>Wild Geese Returning Home at Katata</n> (c. 1834) by <n>Utagawa Hiroshige</n>.

<n>Section of the Earth’s Crust</n>, a classroom chart by <n>Orra White Hitchcock</n>, c. 1830s.

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

An 1869 illustration by <n>Lewis W. Leeds</n> from his book <n>Lectures on Ventilation</n>.

An 18th-century engraving of a <n>solar microscope</n> by <n>Martin Frobenius Ledermüller</n> and <n>A. W. Winterschmidt</n>.

<n>Part of the Milky Way</n>, an 1882 astronomical drawing by <n>Étienne Léopold Trouvelot</n>.

<n>Ike no Taiga</n>'s 1771 woodblock print, <n>Miyajima: Takafusa</n>, from the series <n>Three Famous Scenes</n>.