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    Film / 
    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Through the Magnifying Glass: The Cheese Mites (1903)

    Books / 
    Animals & Beasts, Religion, Myth & Legend, Science & Medicine

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

    Books / 
    Customs & Culture, Science & Medicine, Wisdom

    Uncommon Sense: Edward B. Foote’s Plain Home Talk (1896 edition)

    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Strange Phenomena, Science & Medicine

    José Guadalupe Posada’s Engravings of Unusual Births (ca. 1880–1910)

    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, Sport & Exercise

    What Is It Like to Be a Bass? Fish-Eye View Photography (1919–22)

    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    George Baxter’s Print of Crystal Palace Dinosaurs (ca. 1854)

    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    A Wetted Beak: Engravings from Pauline Knip’s Les Pigeons (1811)

    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine, Natural World

    Alfred G. Mayer’s On the Color and Color-Patterns of Moths and Butterflies (1897)

    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)

    Books / 
    Love & Lust, Science & Medicine

    Aphrodisiacs and Anti-Aphrodisiacs (1869)

    Books / 
    Science & Medicine

    Edwin D. Babbitt’s Principles of Light and Color (1878)

    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773)

    Books / 
    Food, Science & Medicine

    Luigi Cornaro’s Sure and Certain Methods of Attaining a Long and Healthful Life (1722 edition)

    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Science & Medicine

    A Bug’s Life: David and Marian Fairchild’s Book of Monsters (1914)

    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Science & Medicine

    Thomas Eakins’ Photograph of a Dissected Horse’s Leg (ca. 1885)

    Images / 
    Death, Science & Medicine

    The Gilded Gallows of Georg Honauer (1597)

    Books / 
    Science & Medicine, Ghosts & Occult

    Annie Besant and Charles Leadbeater’s Occult Chemistry (1908)

    Books / 
    Crime & Law, Death, Science & Medicine

    The Afterimage of Death: Dr. Berkeley's Discovery (1889)

    Images / 
    Science & Medicine, Astronomy & Space

    Behold the Nebulous Smear: ‘Abd al-Rahmān al-Sūfī’s Illustrated Book of Fixed Stars (ca. 1430)

    Books / 
    Natural World, Science & Medicine

    A Distinct Phenomenon in Itself: C. V. Raman’s Discovery of Why the Sea is Blue (1921)

    Images / 
    Architecture, Science & Medicine

    My Body is a Temple Four-Story House: Analogical Diagram from Tobias Cohen’s Ma’aseh Tuviyah (1708)

    Images / 
    Animals & Beasts, Natural World, Science & Medicine

    Jean Baptiste Vérany’s Chromolithographs of Cephalopods (1851)

    Books / 
    Science & Medicine

    Dentologia: A Poem on the Diseases of the Teeth (1833)

    Books / 
    Science & Medicine, Work

    Blights of the Bookish: An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (1768)