
Pastel astronomical illustration by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.
(from Public Domain Review)

Pastel astronomical illustration by Étienne Léopold Trouvelot.
(from Public Domain Review)
Posted by sean on December 15, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/12/15/trouvelot-astronomical-drawings-1882/
(Plate by Ernst Haeckel, courtesy of Public Domain Review)
Posted by sean on October 26, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/10/26/bats/

“Black Sun”, from Splendor Solis, a German alchemical treatise, 1582
Wikipedia entry for Splendor Solis
Discussion on the significance of the Black Sun in alchemy
(found via Public Domain Review)
Posted by sean on August 4, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/08/04/black-sun/

A Vision of Isolating Technology from 1906 (Source: Public Domain Review via Diseases of Modern Life)
Posted by sean on July 28, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/07/28/a-vision-of-isolating-technology-from-1906/
The Strange Case of Mr William T. Horton: a new essay by Jon Crabb on the proto-modernist illustrator William T. Horton published in The Public Domain Review.
Read Horton’s A Book of Images (with an introduction by his friend W. B. Yeats) at the Internet Archive.
Posted by sean on March 9, 2016
https://sd-stewart.com/2016/03/09/william-t-horton/
(via public domain review)
Posted by sean on January 23, 2014
https://sd-stewart.com/2014/01/23/thank-you-wellcome-library/