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Surficial Pattern of Receptaculitids - Matthew H Nitecki [1969] https://t.co/GBGyxVm6Jh
Fragments of the WPA San Francisco Model [1940] at @DavidRumseyMaps https://t.co/h8peQcdqGA via @EdwardTufte
Plates from The Science of Colour Mixing: A Manual Intended for the Use of Dyers, Calico Printers and Colour Chemists - David Paterson [1900] https://t.co/wYswhkUjBr
Plates from Der Stil in den technischen und tektonischen Künsten; oder, Praktische Aesthetik - Gottfried Semper [1878] https://t.co/azeWN1Ygz1
The Perfection of Logic / The Simplicity of Truth. Plates from The Phenomena and Order of The Solar System - J. P. Nichol [1838] https://t.co/cSJ0ev5KIq
Illustrations from ‘The beauty of the heavens : a pictorial display of the astronomical phenomena of the universe’ - Charles F Blunt [1842] Full text here: https://t.co/or9kZVHZmv
Illustrations of solar corona from Popular Science Monthly [1872] Helium signed the bright yellow lines discovered in the coronal spectra of the total solar eclipse in Guntar, India, 1868. Guntar homes the Agastyeshwara temple built by Agastya, 'the one who brightens in darkness'
We are Nudibranchs, bottom-dwelling and jelly-bodied. We evolved to lose our shells, develop exotic camouflage and secret toxins on our foes...and to eventually audition for a part in Oskar Schlemmer's Triadic Ballet, one day. https://t.co/dlnfd6qJXH via @BioDivLibrary
When the future was going to be comicbook inflatable: Dyodon, Une Habitation Pneumatique Experimentale - Jean Paul Jungmann [1967] https://t.co/l1sJJbVwcd [PDF]
...What started as a side-line piece of research for a chapter I am writing ended up as a day in the company of De Chirico's faceless mannequins...