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Phenakistoscopes (1833)

The Kept and the Killed (2022)

The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Happy Public Domain Day 2026

Luke Howard’s essay on the modification of clouds (1865)

A Thousand and One Nights in Italy

What will enter the public domain in 2026?

Hooked on Sonics: Experimenting with Sound in 19th-Century Popular Science

Roma Lister, Aradia, and the Speculative Origins of a Witchcraft Revival

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

Vertiginous Accounts: Travels in the Air (1871 edition)

The Adventures and Experiences of the First Slovak Novel

Mary Carleton, Counterfeit Princess

Depictions of Celestial Objects Spanning Nearly a Millennium (2014)

Flowers of Fealty: Commemoration of the Christening of Elisabeth of Hesse (1598)

Cannibal Modernity: Oswald de Andrade's Manifesto Antropófago (1928)

Watching the World in a Dark Room: The Early Modern Camera Obscura

The Polyhedral Perspective

The Corset X-Rays of Dr Ludovic O'Followell (1908)

The Cat's Meat Man: Feeding Felines in Victorian London

Off with Their Heads: Illustrations of Blemmyes (ca. 1175–1724)

Dancing Naked on the Head of a Pin: The Early History of Microphotography

Drawing on Tradition: Elena Izcue's Peruvian Art in the School

The Old, Old, Old Man

Oskar Kokoschka, Hermine Moos, and the Alma Mahler Doll

Gilded Fish: Illustrations of Histoire naturelle des dorades de la Chine c.1780

Charles Butler's the Feminine Monarchie, or the History of Bees (1634 Edition)

As Bright as a Feather: Ostriches, Home Dyeing, and the Global Plume Trade

Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī's Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)

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

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