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

A <n>Martian fighting-machine</n> illustrated by <n>Henrique Alvim Corrêa</n> for the 1906 edition of <n>The War of the Worlds</n>.

Illustration by <n>Jay Van Everen</n> from <n>Mighty Mikko: A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales</n> (1922).

Initial 'S' by <n>Ernst Schneidler</n> from the 1919 book <n>Deutsche Märchen seit Grimm</n>.

A 1660 chart of lunar phases by <n>Andreas Cellarius</n>, engraved by <n>Jan van Loon</n>.

Photochrom print of the <n>North Cape</n> in Norway, ca. 1890–1900.

<n>Partial Eclipse of the Moon</n> by <n>Étienne Léopold Trouvelot</n>, from *The Trouvelot Astronomical Drawings* (1882).

A 19th-century Japanese <n>tsuba</n> by <n>Masayoshi</n>, depicting plovers flying over waves.

<n>The Underworld</n> (c. 1613-1644) by artist <n>Francois de Nome</n>.

<n>Paul Nash</n>'s <n>Surrealist</n> painting, <n>Battle of Germany</n> (1944).

<n>The Empyrean</n> (1867) by <n>Gustave Doré</n>, an illustration for <n>Dante Alighieri</n>'s <n>The Divine Comedy</n>.

<n>Cabin in the Cotton</n> (c. 1935), a painting by American artist <n>Horace Pippin</n>.

Profile picture for the metalcore band <n>Sølstice</n>.

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

<n>Dante and Beatrice before the Light</n>, a 15th-century illumination by <n>Giovanni di Paolo</n>.

A 1491 woodcut illustrating <n>Paradiso, Canto XXI</n> from <n>Dante's Divine Comedy</n>.

Illustration of lava from Mount Vesuvius by <n>Peter Fabris</n> for <n>Sir William Hamilton</n>'s 1776 book, <n>Campi Phlegraei</n>.

An ornamental print from 1556, designed by <n>Cornelis Floris II</n> and engraved by <n>Balthasar van den Bos</n>.

<n>Flowers from Bethlehem</n> (1874), a pressed flower arrangement by <n>Boulos Meo</n>.

An engraving of <n>The Last Supper</n> (ca. 1580) by <n>Marcus Gheeraerts the Elder</n> and <n>Jan Sadeler I</n>.

Illustration by <n>Harry Clarke</n> for <n>Edgar Allan Poe</n>'s <n>Tales of Mystery and Imagination</n>, 1919.

A c. 1850 lithograph by Japanese artist <n>Utagawa Hiroshige</n>.

Illustration for <n>Edgar Allan Poe</n>'s story "<n>Morella</n>" by <n>Harry Clarke</n>, 1919.

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

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

<n>Camp Fire</n>, an 1880 painting by American artist <n>Winslow Homer</n>.

<n>Table of the Permeability of Various Substances to Roentgen Rays</n> by <n>Josef Maria Eder</n> and <n>Eduard Valenta</n>, 1896.

An 1833 phenakistoscope disc titled <n>Optical illusion disc with two men throwing and catching cakes and stars</n>.

An eclipse seen from inside an <n>O'Neill Cylinder</n> space colony. Painting by <n>Don Davis</n> for a 1975 <n>NASA</n> study.

An illustration from the <n>Compendium of Demonology and Magic</n>, ca. 1775, held by the <n>Wellcome Collection</n>.

<n>Le pied à travers la chaussure</n>, an 1896 X-ray photograph by <n>Dr. Henri van Heurck</n>.

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

<n>A Solar Eruption</n> by <n>Agnes Giberne</n>, from <n>The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars</n> (1898).

<n>Peacocks</n> (1683), an oil on canvas by Dutch artist <n>Melchior d' Hondecoeter</n>.

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