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Flying Fish design, from L'animal dans la Décoration (1897) by Maurice Pillard Verneuil.

More from the book over at @byrawpixel: https://t.co/sogbFbgLfo

Diagrams from Geometrical Psychology (1887), a book by Louisa S. Cook detailing New Zealander Benjamin Bett's remarkable attempts to mathematically model the evolution of human consciousness through geometric forms. 🤯

More here: https://t.co/ykkLAbWlul

Happy birthday Jacob Grimm! The elder of the folklorist brothers was born #onthisday 1785. Read Jack Zipes' essay "The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm" in which he explores the importance of the neglected 1st edition of their Kinder-und Hausmärchen: https://t.co/Oe3r5W0KV8

A collection of entries for Christmas Day from an eclectic mix of different diaries spanning five centuries, from 1599 to 1918: https://t.co/dJyiQMjJYT #ChristmasDay

Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died #onthisday in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: https://t.co/s1Zj5ATcz9 #OTD

One of a set of 32 astronomical star-chart cards known as Urania’s Mirror or a View of the Heavens published in around 1825. Each card is pierced with holes corresponding in size to the magnitudes of the brightest stars. More here: https://t.co/pkZcUloRA4

Isochrone map showing travel times, by coloured gradient tint, from Paris to the rest of France by rail, 1882 — https://t.co/Yml9cvJtY2

A few of the images of Aurora Borealis collected in our new post “Firelight Flickering on the Ceiling of the World”, looking at how this otherworldly phenomenon has been depicted over the centuries. Lots more here: https://t.co/ZlJAMmqPMR #auroraborealis

They Were Three Months Passing Through the Forest, by Virginia Frances Sterrett, 1920.

Buy print here: https://t.co/dnMRehS1Nm

No.5 of our Top 10 best-selling prints. See our full selection here: https://t.co/1gAB1ZmsiX

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/0XNm85C0gl