The Public Domain Reviewさんのイラストまとめ

Before Cousteau, way before @Octonauts, explorer Eugen von Ransonnet-Villez was bringing images of the undersea world to the surface, from his artist’s sketch pad inside a glass and steel diving bell: https://t.co/Bcjttua2HI

In 1585, the Englishman John White, governor of one of the very first North American colonies, made a series of exquisite watercolour sketches of the native Algonkin people alongside whom the settlers would try to live. @ResObscura explores... https://t.co/4duGfA2TF4

To all those celebrating today, a very happy #Thanksgiving! If you are in need of some last minute improvised table decorations this could be of use... The Art of Ornamental Orange Peeling, from 1910: https://t.co/N5dO82OBw4

Illustration from the 1913 English edition of The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf, born #onthisday in 1858.

Read Jenny Watson on the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize in Literature: https://t.co/QSVOZsRbmk #otd

NEW ESSAY — “The Orkney Finnmen Legends: From Early Modern Science to Modern Myth”, @JonWestaway on 17th-century reports of a mysterious kayak-paddling “Finnman” seen in Orkney waters — https://t.co/Cjzx1csrfv

#OnThisDay in 1895, Wilhelm Roentgen discovered x-rays and altered the course of medical history. Pictured: images from one of the 1st series of x-rays ever produced (just 2 weeks after Roentgen published his discovery). More here: https://t.co/JyGw73fcB1 #WorldRadiographyDay

Cotton-top tamarin, as depicted by Jacques de Sève for Comte de Buffon's Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière (1754).

See lots more of the wonderful illustrations from the book here: https://t.co/Ch2rsgWJOa

Nudibranchs as pictured by a Japanese illustrator named Kumataro Ito, artist for the USS Albatross’ Philippine Expedition, 1907–10. More of his stunning images here: https://t.co/GuHUxgLF1M

Depiction of Bael, “the first king of hell”, with head of a toad, man + cat — one of the many illustrations by Louis le Breton for the 1863 edition of Jacques Collin de Plancy’s "Dictionnaire infernal". More in @WithEdSimon's essay "Defining the Demonic": https://t.co/62ib6RdQ0v

From a series of 19th-century French postcards imagining life 100 years in the future (now 20 years in the past) — unpublished until #scifi writer Isaac Asimov chanced upon them and brought them to light in 1986. More here: https://t.co/n5yLZt5AHx #BackToTheFutureDay