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Super hi-res and digitally enhanced images from Joris Hoefnagel and Georg Bocskay's stunning Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596). All free to download (though you do have to sign up for free account first): https://t.co/bt6qdaiamP @byrawpixel

#Onthisday in 1883, the culmination of the #Krakatoa eruption: one of the deadliest volcanic events in recorded history. Read Gerard Manley Hopkins' letters describing the odd optical effects made by the ash cloud that were seen as far away as UK: https://t.co/Ei4N1Sq3ua #otd

US fiction of the 19th century often featured a ghoulish figure, the cruel doctor, whose unfeeling fascination with bodily suffering readers found both unnerving and entirely plausible. @UnrealCitoyenne dissects this curious character. https://t.co/bA50icN2XN

Waterfall and Northern Lights, Carl Svante Hallbeck, 1856. ⁠
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Chromolithograph depicting Harsprånget waterfall, now the site of the largest hydroelectric power station in Sweden.⁠
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One of several aurora borealis prints available in our online shop: https://t.co/70VD0wIsXe

Geographical Fun (1868), a series of fantastic anthropomorphic maps of European countries, drawn by an unnamed 15-year-old girl who had the idea for the novel maps "when seeking to amuse a brother confined to his bed by illness": https://t.co/rsHv7bEcmE

Alfred Tennyson — born #onthisday in 1809 — enjoying a swing while his "poetic fancy" sparkles in the night sky. From a 19th-century book of celebrity cartoons: https://t.co/5h182DQ5td #otd

"Caterpillar, Pear, Tulip, and Purple Snail " (1561–96) — from the remarkable Model Book of Calligraphy, the result of a collaboration across many decades between a master scribe Georg Bocskay and artist Joris Hoefnagel, who died #onthisday in 1601: https://t.co/mHEGK9rp4X #OTD

Stunning set of maps depicting the changing course of the Mississippi River over thousands of years, created by US Army engineer Harold Fisk in 1944: https://t.co/tftQ06Q0Ds

Future visions of everyday life in the year 2000, from a series of late 19th / early 20th century French postcards. More here: https://t.co/Itf9EKjlO9

The Great Day of His Wrath (1851).

Discover the apocalyptic compositions of John Martin — born #onthisday in 1789, the same week in which the Bastille was stormed — and how in his epic landscapes one can see reflected his revolutionary leanings: https://t.co/dQvcmEz3Tz #otd