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Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)

The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel

Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess

Depictions of Celestial Objects Spanning Nearly a Millennium (2014)

Flowers of Fealty: Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)

Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura

The Polyhedral Perspective

The Corset X-Rays of Dr Ludovic O'Followell (1908)

The Cat's Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography

Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue's Peruvian Art in the School

The Old, Old, Old Man

Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll

Gilded Fish: Illustrations of Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine c.1780

Charles Butler's the Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 Edition)

As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade

Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī's Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)

Sea Monsters Unmasked and Sea Fables Explained by Henry Lee (1883)

Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte

"The Form of a Demon and the Heart of a Person"

Modern Babylon: Ziggurat Skyscrapers and Hugh Ferriss' Retrofuturism

Sheet Mewsic: Moritz von Schwind's Katzensymphonie (1868)

Jack London, Jack Johnson, and the Fight of the Century

Bedded Bugs and Stung Beetles: The Cameraman's Revenge (1912)

Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka's Reverse Paintings (Ca. 1920s)

A Princely Ploy: Inside the Ruse of a French-Armenian Scammer

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