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The Public Domain Review
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Posts: 10
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Yellow Silence: Miniature from the Silos Apocalypse (ca. 1100)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/yellow-silence-miniature-from-the-silos-apocalypse
Published: October 3, 2024 12:01
A seemingly modern moment of abstraction in a medieval manuscript, representing silence as a yellow rectangle.
“Freedom! Equality!! Justice!!!”: Victoria Woodhull’s Impending Revolution (1872)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/victoria-woodhull-the-impending-revolution
Published: October 2, 2024 15:07
A Christian socialist speech by the first woman to run for president and the first person to publish the Communist Manifesto in the US.
Talking Lightly About Serious Things: Henri Rochefort and the Origins of French Populism
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/henri-rochefort-and-the-origins-of-french-populism
Published: September 26, 2024 13:58
A man who “believed in nothing, not even himself”, Henri Rochefort is now a minor footnote in the annals of modern journalism. However, at the height of his notoriety, in the late 1860s and early 1870s, his writings, political activities, imprisonments,…
A Very Tall Tale: Photograph of the Cardiff Giant (ca. 1869)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/cardiff-giant
Published: September 26, 2024 13:54
Perhaps greatest hoax in American natural history.
Theodor de Bry’s Engravings for Thomas Harriot’s Briefe and True Report (1590)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/briefe-and-true-report-de-bry-engravings
Published: September 19, 2024 14:17
Engravings based on watercolour images made at the first British colony in North America.
Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/principles-of-light-and-color
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)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/tardigrade
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)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/antiquities-of-mexico
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.