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Including this one, which also graces the front cover of our new book of images Affinities... which you can order here: https://t.co/gZafzRBJOS

Some of the fine illustrations by Edward Julius Detmold featured in Fabre’s Book of Insects (1921).

More on the book here: https://t.co/fwYbcHsZYJ

Caricature a "sadistic tooth-drawer" who frightens his patient with a hot coal to make him pull back his head and so extract the tooth, 1810. ⠀
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Featured in our essay "Sicko Doctors: Suffering and Sadism in 19th-Century America" by @UnrealCitoyenne — https://t.co/IeaoOtiwUd

Page from Thesaurus of Alchemy, ca. 1725.
More wondrous illustrations from the world of alchemy here: https://t.co/Yi03PnsFd7

Frontispiece to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things (1904), a book of traditional Japanese ghost stories compiled by the great scholar and translator Lafcadio Hearn, who was born #onthisday in 1850. Read the book here: https://t.co/RopiXB1BBa #otd

#OnThisDay in 1928, Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen disappeared with 5 crew while flying on a rescue mission in the Arctic. Their bodies were never found. 17 yrs earlier he became the 1st to reach the S. Pole. See photos from that expedition here: https://t.co/NeIvHPOlvz #OTD

Illustrations of Zuni masks gathered in a 1904 report by anthropologist Matilda Coxe Stevenson. More here in our latest image post: https://t.co/HsQD3IcuiC

Rare glimpse of the ecosystem which underpins our project – that's the PDR in the white and, heroic beneath, our donors. If you like what we do and want to see it continue please make a donation to our fundraiser to help keep the PDR aloft! https://t.co/nYwMLeJMRu

On the sketchbook of 15th-century engineer Johannes de Fontana, a catalogue of designs for fantastic and often impossible inventions, including fire-breathing automatons, pulley-powered angels + the earliest surviving drawing of a magic lantern device: https://t.co/yGQb2H1Vgd

For #WorldEnvironmentDay, stunning colour lithographs from William Saville-Kent's The Great Barrier Reef of Australia (1893), created from the author's original watercolour sketches: https://t.co/KM1B32cPRT @byrawpixel