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Painting by Ju Lian (1828–1904) — AKA "Old Man of the Divided Mountain" — a Chinese painter of the Qing Dynasty known for his delicate illustrations of birds, bugs, flowers, and plants. See more over at @byrawpixel: https://t.co/EkBP5lrgiv
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#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
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
Spectropia; or, Surprising Spectral Illusions (1865), a wonderful book of Victorian hi-tech ghost conjuring which allows the reader to summon, as the sub-title proclaims, “ghosts everywhere and of any colour”. More here: https://t.co/zze3oDkD5b
"Arabian or Egyptian Land Crocodile", woodcut from Edward Topsell's The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents (1658), the illustrations for which all come directly from earlier works by Konrad Gesner. More here: https://t.co/lhIeKxKOmv
Right Whale, Blackfish, Porpoise, and Dolphin from Johnson's Household Book of nature (1880) by John Karst. More from the book over at @byrawpixel: https://t.co/wSM72Wjmwz
Drawn by a Hopi man named White-Bear in 1903, these are kachinas. Popular in Hopi and Pueblo culture, a kachina is a spirit or personification of a thing in the real world, anything from a revered ancestor to a quality or concept. More here: https://t.co/qWijx5zFcm
Images from the 1665 edition of Fortunio Liceti’s De Monstris, originally published, without the illustrations, in 1616. More here: https://t.co/33TI8de2az
Cartoon portrait of artist and writer William Morris, who left this "earthly paradise" 123 years ago #onthisday. More caricatures of leading (male!) 19th-century figures featured in Cartoon Portraits and Biographical Sketches of Men of the Day (1873): https://t.co/OqsHCIBeYv