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Illustrations from an Arabic Machine Manuscript – c.1700

These illustrations from an Arabic manuscript show us schematics for gears, pulleys and water power. ...

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Twelve Erotic Prints from Azuma Nishiki (Brocade of the East) by Katsushika Hokusai – c.1812

"When I am eighty you will see real progress. At ninety I shall have cut my way deeply into the mystery of life itself. At one hundred, I shall be a marvellous artist" - Katsushika Hokusai ...

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The “Puffy Boys”, “Women of the Manly Type” and Undesirables at the Running Horse Pub in Mayfair

The May Fair was not for trade and merchandise, but for "musick, showes, drinking, gaming, raffling, lotteries, stageplays and drolls.” It was immensely popular, and was frequented by “all the nobility of the town. ...

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All the Ladies (and Men) Fit to Print: 18th-Century Turkish Portraits of the World’s Best People

For hundreds of years, both Ottomans and Europeans saw each other through the pages of these costume albums. ...

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Beautiful Vintage Board Games From the 16th to 20th Centuries

"There are only a few basic methods of playing [board] games and over the past ...

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Ridiculous Hair – 18th Century Skyscrapers

In the 18th Century hair got taller... and taller... and taller... ...

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The English Dance of Death: Thomas Rowlandson’s Scathing Memento Mori 1814-1816

I love dispatch I strike at once The wit, the wise, the fool, the dunce; ...

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Groundbreaking Illustrations of the Cosmos from Thomas Wright’s An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe – 1750

Thomas Wright was the fist to show us the shape of the Milky Way and to speculate that faint nebulae were distant galaxies ...

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A Bedside Guide to the Colours of Love in Spring and Other Erotic Prints by Kunisada (NSFW)

This book depicts women in preparation for meeting their lovers when the sap is rising in spring ...

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The Mockingbird: Unexpected 18th-Century Self-Portraits by Joseph Ducreux

Ducreux's self-portraits makes us wonder who he was and what he was up to? ...

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Comets, Meteors and Other Stars of Wonder

Comets, meteors, meteorites and shooting stars are signs of God's love, portents of doom, fretful conversations with the divine, divine illumination, wonderful and full of mystery. ...

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Sacrilegious Smut: 18th-Century Erotica of Naughty Nuns and Salacious Monks (NSFW)

Debauchery and biblical encounters in the religious orders from 18th Century France ...

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