Christmas in space, illustrated by Moebius, 1982.

77 Nobelists (including 31 med, 18 phys, 9 eco, 17 chem) signed a letter (9 Dec 24) to the US Senate urging senators to reject RFK jr appointment as Secy of DHHS because he "would put the public's health in jeopardy and undermine America's global leadership in the health sciences..."

Windmill exhibit at Columbia Exposition 1893 from "Scientific American".

Nice bird's-eye of London bridges from "Illustrated London News" July 1909.

The interior civilization(s) of the Earth provided by William R. Bradshaw to the readers of his "Goddess of Atvatabar," which was published in 1892.

Working. Miner. NSW, 1881. (Proc NSW Institute of Engineers, vol 12/4, 1881.)

Human Hats of 1908. ("Illustrated London News.")

Thanks, Andrea, for providing the answer to this. My memory was of the use of "relocation center" and "evacuee camp" and such, which came later to distance these places from the Nazi concentration camps. Thanks again!

Came across the use of the term "concentration camps" to describe the internment centers for Japanese Americans 1942 (in N. Thomas "Democracy and Japanese Americans" pub by The Post War Council.) Strikes me as unusual/early usage of the term re Japanese in the USA. No? @andreapitzer.bsky.social

The covers of my three books! ICEBOUND: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World, ONE LONG NIGHT: A Global History of Concentration Camps, and THE SECRET HISTORY OF VLADIMIR NABOKOV.

A pre-holiday reminder that I've written a book for the serious history-minded person in your life, the survival-story fan, or the literary weirdo dear to you. If you want me to send a signed copy, just DM me. You'll be supporting my past and future writing and giving someone a cool book as a gift.

Nice title page vignette (American edition of the British Encyclopedia...1818.)

The image of Jupiter reminds me a bit of Dore's rendering of Dante's Paradiso--without the celestial pure holy light in the center. Really, though, Jupiter seems more Inferno-y. (Thanks @amazingphysics.bsky.social)

Splendid title! Thanks for this @publicdomainrev.bsky.social

Windows. Nicely designed cover of "For a Better Tomorrow", published by the State Labor News (Columbus, Ohio), 1940.

Canopy pinhole wannabe.

This map is art! Source: https://buff.ly/3V0rRSV

Just a reminder that vaccines are saving lives left right and center. During COVID the vaccines did their job brilliantly. At least 20 million lives saved. Nice.

this is wonderful. h/t @jwomack.bsky.social , but of course

Found Dada in data--non-artistic art in J. Scott Russell's 1845 paper on the soliton.

SO true! Thanks for sharing!

The future: large phonograph ("Popular Mechanics", 1916).

The great visionierre, Albert Robida, "La Vie Electrique", 1890, peaks into the future.

Shadowland--stage design in "Theatre World" 1931.

Printed in Los Angeles 99 years ago--no idea what it is about, but the imagery is a show-stopper.

Happy #JellyfishDay! The oceans are increasingly full of these gelatinous invertebrates, provoking a range of responses in humans, from disgust to awe. The biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel was most certainly in the latter camp... buff.ly/3q2G03j

“Here I Gather All the Friends”: Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study Reading is a form of necromancy, a way to summon and commune once again with the dead, but in what ersatz temple should such a ritual take place? Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by rev...

NEW ESSAY — “Here I Gather All the Friends”, in which Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by revisiting the bibliographic imaginations of Machiavelli, Montaigne, and W. E. B. Du Bois — publicdomainreview.org/essay/machia...

Nicely designed image about The World Underground from "Popular Mechanics" 1948.