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The Public Domain Review
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Artificial Intelligence: Ars Notoria and the Promise of Instant Knowledge
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/ars-notoria
Published: July 29, 2026 14:08
Centuries before Neo instantly mastered Kung Fu in *The Matrix*, medieval scholars found a shortcut to years of difficult study: a magical manuscript that promised to fast-track advanced learning. Anne Lawrence-Mathers investigates the *Ars notoria*, its…
Photographs of Atlantic City Sand Sculpture (ca. 1880–1920)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/atlantic-city-sand-sculpture
Published: July 29, 2026 13:07
Photographs from when Atlantic City beaches featured artists ornately sculpting sand.
“The Persian Mâr-Nâmeh or, The Book for Taking Omens from Snakes” (1892)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/marnameh
Published: July 28, 2026 19:02
A Zoroastrian text about serpents translated by the President of the Bombay Anthropological Society.
Archie G. Norcross’ Maine Forest Fire Maps (1918–22)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maine-forest-fire-maps
Published: July 14, 2026 15:21
Circular maps custom-made for the fire towers that once dotted the American wilderness.
“Worthless Idiot, Donkey Head”: Parodies of Pedantry on the Renaissance Stage
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/parodies-of-pedantry
Published: July 8, 2026 12:09
Pompous know-it-alls were once a mainstay of mockery on the Italian stage. Arnoud Visser investigates this stock character of the pedant and his association with individual superiority, social distinction, and sexual transgression, finding a form of satire…
Peruvianizing Peru: Covers from Amauta Magazine (1926–30)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/amauta-covers
Published: July 8, 2026 12:08
Cover designs for José Carlos Mariátegui’s radical Lima-based magazine.
Choice Notes on History from Notes and Queries (1858)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/choice-notes-from-notes-and-queries
Published: July 7, 2026 15:08
Selections from a peculiar British journal that focus on the peculiarities of British monarchs.
Diagrams for Travel from the Qanoon-e-Islam (1832)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/diagrams-for-travel
Published: June 30, 2026 16:38
Diagrams from a lost Urdu manuscript illustrating the propitious days and directions for travel.
Louis Pope Gratacap, A Curator in Lost Worlds
https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/gratacap-curator-in-lost-worlds
Published: June 17, 2026 12:31
Arguably the first work of fiction to feature a *Tyrannosaurus rex*, Louis Pope Gratacap’s *The New Northland* (1915) is at once kaleidoscopic, mischievous, fascinating — and exhausting. Richard Fallon explores this “lost world” novel, finding a work as…
The Art of Kite Flying (1430–1929)
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/art-of-kite-flying
Published: June 17, 2026 12:30
69 images of kite flying from across 5 centuries and some 10 countries.