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

Plate 81 from <n>Martin Frobenius Ledermüller</n>'s *<n>Mikroskopischer Gemüths- und Augen-Ergötzung</n>* (1759–63).

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

A page of emblems from <n>Devises et emblemes, anciennes et modernes</n> (1699) by <n>Daniel de La Feuille</n>.

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

Artwork from a <n>Hirayama Fireworks</n> catalog (ca. 1883) used for <n>Califone</n>'s album <n>The Villager's Companion</n>.

<n>Farbenkugel</n> (Color Sphere), an 1810 illustration by German Romantic painter <n>Philipp Otto Runge</n>.

<n>Discomedusae</n>, a 1904 lithograph from <n>Kunstformen der Natur</n> by artist <n>Ernst Haeckel</n>.

<n>A Celestial Eye, viewing the Objects of the Creation</n>, an engraving by <n>Thomas Wright</n> from 1750.

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

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

A <n>Tsuba</n> from <n>Okabe-Kakuya</n>'s 1916 publication, <n>Japanese Sword Guards</n>.

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

A 1900 infographic directed by <n>W. E. B. Du Bois</n> for the <n>Exposition Universelle</n> in Paris.

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

<n>Plate XXIV</n> from '<n>An original theory or new hypothesis of the universe</n>' by <n>Thomas Wright</n>, 1750.