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The Public Domain Review
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Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)
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Published: September 17, 2024 15:48
An early treatise on chromotherapy — the supposed science of healing physical and psychic ailments with colour.
Gottfried Mind, The Raphael of Cats
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/gottfried-mind-the-raphael-of-cats
Published: September 11, 2024 14:15
Labelled a “cretin” and “imbecile” in his lifetime, the Swiss artist Gottfried Mind had profound talents when it came to drafting the feline form. Kirsten Tambling reconstructs the biography of this elusive figure, whose savant-like qualities inspired…
Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)
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Published: September 10, 2024 12:04
The very first drawing of the microscopic "water bear" by a theologian turned microscope explorer.
Luigi Cornaro’s Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 edition)
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Published: September 5, 2024 13:09
A Renaissance guide to dieting that Nietzsche thought was the second most harmful book.
Antiquities of Mexico (1831–48)
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Published: September 4, 2024 16:00
A nine volume series that faithfully reproduced virtually all pre-Hispanic Mesoamerican books in European collections at the time.
Scenes of Reading on the Early Portrait Postcard
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/scenes-of-reading-on-the-early-portrait-postcard
Published: July 31, 2024 12:26
When picture postcards began circulating with a frenzy across the United States and Europe at the turn of the twentieth century, a certain motif proved popular: photographs of people posed with books. Melina Moe and Victoria Nebolsin explore this…
The American Colony of Jerusalem’s “Wild Flowers of Palestine” (ca. 1900–20)
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Published: July 24, 2024 15:19
Photographs of wild flowers taken by photographers from a Christian utopian community that settled in East Jerusalem at the turn of the 20th century.
The Plague of Lust: Being A History of Venereal Disease in Classical Antiquity (1901 edition)
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Published: July 18, 2024 14:09
A 650-page philological foray into ancient sexuality, surprisingly light on STDs.
Lonely Together: Paul Fejos’ Lonesome (1928)
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Published: July 16, 2024 15:57
A “part-talkie” that offers a simple solution to modern urban isolation: love.