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Harry Clarkes
Looking Glass
(/2016/10/12/harryclarkes-lookingglass/)
Unlimiting the
Bounds: the
Panorama and the
Balloon View
Although mentioned
only briefly in the
Qur'an, the story of the
Prophet Muhammad's
night journey to heaven
astride a winged horse
called Buraq has long
caught the imagination
of artists. Yasmine Seale
charts the many
representations of this
enigmatic steed, from
early Islamic scripture to
contemporary Delhi, and
explores what such a
figure can tell us about
the nature of belief.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
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(/2016/08/03
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The second essay in a
two-part series in which
Lily Ford explores how
balloon flight
transformed our ideas of
landscape. Here she
looks at the phenomenon
of the panorama, and
how its attempts at
creating the immersive
view were inextricably
linked to the new visual
experience opened up by
the advent of ballooning.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
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images of covered up
piano legs and dark
ankle-length skirts.
Historian Matthew
Green uncovers a quite
different scene in the
sordid story of Holywell
St, 19th-century
London's epicentre of
erotica and smut.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2016/06/29/the-secrethistory-of-holywellstreet-home-to-victorianlondons-dirtybook-trade/)
Francis van
Helmont and the
Alphabet of Nature
(/2016/06/01
/francisvan-helmontand-the-alphabetof-nature/)
Largely forgotten today
in the shadow of his
more famous father, the
17th-century Flemish
alchemist Francis van
Helmont influenced and
was friends with the
likes of Locke, Boyle,
and Leibniz. While
imprisoned by the
Inquisition, in between
torture sessions, he
wrote his Alphabet of
Nature on the idea of a
universal natural
language. Je Wilson
explores. Continued
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Frolicsome
Engines: The Long
Prehistory of
Artificial
Intelligence (/2016
/05/04/frolicsomeengines-the-long-
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(http://publicdomainrevie
/2016/06/01/francisvan-helmont-and-thealphabet-of-nature/)
George
Washington at the
Siamese Court
(/2016/04/21
/georgewashington-at-thesiamese-court/)
Keen to appear outwardlooking and open to
Western culture, in 1838
the Second King of Siam
bestowed upon his son a
most unusual name.
Ross Bullen explores the
curious case of Prince
George Washington, a
19th-century Siamese
prince. Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2016/04/21/georgewashington-at-thesiamese-court/)
Divine Comedy:
Lucian Versus The
Gods (/2016/03/23
/divine-comedylucian-versusthe-gods/)
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prehistoryof-artificialintelligence/)
Defecating ducks,
talking busts, and
mechanised Christs
Jessica Riskin on the
wonderful history of
automata, machines built
to mimic the processes
of intelligent life.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2016/05/04/frolicsomeengines-the-longprehistory-of-artificialintelligence/)
Picturing Don
Quixote (/2016
/04/06/picturingdon-quixote/)
This year marks the
400th anniversary of the
death of Miguel de
Cervantes, author of one
of the best-loved and
most frequently
illustrated books in the
history of literature
Don Quixote. Rachel
Schmidt explores how
the varying approaches
to illustrating the tale
have reflected and
impacted its reading
through the centuries.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2016/04/06/picturingdon-quixote/)
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Worlds Without
End (/2015/12/09
/worldswithout-end/)
At the end of the 19th
century, inspired by
radical advances in
technology, physicists
asserted the reality of
invisible worlds an
idea through which they
sought to address not
only psychic phenomena
such as telepathy, but
also spiritual questions
around the soul and
immortality. Philip Ball
explores this fascinating
history, and how in this
turn to the unseen in the
face of mystery there
exists a parallel to
quantum physics today.
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background to Mary
Shelley's Frankenstein,
considering
contemporary
investigations into
resuscitation, galvanism,
and the possibility of
states between life and
death. Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2015/11/25/the-scienceof-life-and-deathin-mary-shelleysfrankenstein/)
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2015/12/09/worldswithout-end/)
Notes on the
Fourth Dimension
(/2015/10/28/noteson-the-fourthdimension/)
Hyperspace, ghosts, and
colourful cubes - Jon
Crabb on the work of
Charles Howard Hinton
and the cultural history
of higher dimensions.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2015/10/28/noteson-the-fourthdimension/)
Richard Spruce
and the Trials of
Victorian Bryology
(/2015/10/14
/richard-spruceand-the-trialsof-victorianbryology/)
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of-victorian-bryology/)
(/2015/07/15
Cat Pianos, SoundHouses, and Other
Imaginary Musical
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Instruments (/2015
/07/15/cat-pianossound-housesand-otherimaginarymusicalinstruments/)
The Nightwalker
and the Nocturnal
Picaresque (/2015
/06/03
/the-nightwalkerand-the-nocturnalpicaresque/)
The introduction of
street lighting to
17th-century London
saw an explosion of
nocturnal activity in the
capital, most of it
centring around the
selling of sex. Matthew
Beaumont explores how
some writers, with the
intention of condemning
these nefarious
goings-on, took to the
city's streets after dark,
and in the process gave
birth to a peculiar new
literary genre.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2015/06/03/thenightwalker-and-thenocturnal-picaresque/)
The Empathetic
Camera: Frank
Norris and the
Invention of Film
Editing (/2015
/05/20
/the-empatheticcamera-franknorris-and-theinvention-of-filmediting/)
At the heart of American
author Frank Norris'
gritty turn-ofthe-century fiction lies
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terra-incognita/)
One remarkable
symptom of scurvy, that
constant bane of the Age
of Discovery, was the
acute and morbid
heightening of the
senses. Jonathan Lamb
explores how this
unusual effect of sailing
into uncharted territory
echoed a different kind
of voyage, one
undertaken by the
Empiricists through their
experiments in
enhancing the senses
artificially. Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2015/05/06/scurvyand-the-terra-incognita/)
Ignorant Armies:
Private Snafu Goes
to War (/2015
/03/25/ignorantarmies-privatesnafu-goes-to-war/)
Between 1943 and 1945,
with the help of Warner
Bros.' finest, the U.S.
Army produced a series
of 27 propaganda
cartoons depicting the
calamitous adventures of
Private Snafu. Mark
David Kaufman explores
the overarching theme of
containment and how
one film inadvertently
let slip one of the war's
greatest secrets.
Continued
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an essential engagement
with the everyday shock
and violence of
modernity. Henry
Giardina explores how
this focus, combined
with his unique
approach to storytelling,
helped to pave the way
for a truly filmic style.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2015/05/20/theempathetic-camerafrank-norris-and-theinvention-of-filmediting/)
Black on Black
(/2015/04/09/blackon-black/)
Should we consider
black a colour, the
absence of colour or a
suspension of vision
produced by a
deprivation of light?
Beginning with Robert
Fludd's attempt to
picture nothingness,
Eugene Thacker
reflects* on some of the
ways in which blackness
has been used and
thought about through
the history of art and
philosophical thought.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2015/04/09/blackon-black/)
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(http://publicdomainrevie
/2015/03/25/ignorantarmies-private-snafugoes-to-war/)
When Chocolate
was Medicine:
Colmenero,
Wadsworth, and
Dufour (/2015
/01/28/whenchocolatewas-medicinecolmenerowadsworthand-dufour/)
Chocolate has not
always been the
common confectionary
we experience today.
When it arrived from the
Americas into Europe in
the 17th century it was a
rare and mysterious
substance, thought more
of as a drug than as a
food. Christine Jones
traces the history and
literature of its
reception. Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2015/01/28/whenchocolate-was-medicinecolmenero-wadsworthand-dufour/)
Illustrations of
Madness: James
Tilly Matthews and
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O, Excellent Air
Bag: Humphry
Davy and Nitrous
Oxide (/2014/08/06
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Redressing the
Balance: Levinus
Vincents Wonder
Theatre of Nature
(/2014/08/20
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Picturing
Pyrotechnics
(/2014/06/25
/picturingpyrotechnics/)
Simon Werrett explores
how artists through the
ages have responded to
the challenge of
representing firework
displays, from the highly
politicised and
allegorical renderings of
the early modern period
to Whistler's
impressionistic Nocturne
in Black and Gold.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2014/06/25/picturingpyrotechnics/)
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crichton-browne/)
University Press.
15. See: Zweig, J. (1997), Ars Combinatoria, Art Journal, 56(3), 2029;
In the Image of
God: John
Comenius and the
First Childrens
Picture Book
(/2014/05/14/in-theimage-of-godjohn-comeniusand-the-firstchildrens-picturebook/)
In the mid 17th-century
John Comenius
published what many
consider to be the first
picture book dedicated
to the education of
young children, Orbis
Sensualium Pictus - or
The World of Things
Obvious to the Senses
drawn in Pictures, as it
was rendered in English.
Charles McNamara
explores how, contrary
to Comenius'
declarations, the book
can be seen to be as
much about the invisible
world as the visible.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2014/05/14/inthe-image-of-godjohn-comenius-and-thefirst-childrens-picturebook/)
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Frederik Ruysch:
The Artist of Death
(/2014/03/05
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Luuc Kooijmans
explores the work of
Dutch anatomist
Frederik Ruysch, known
for his remarkable still
life displays which
blurred the boundary
between scientific
preservation and vanitas
art. Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2014/03/05/frederikruysch-the-artistof-death/)
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Victorian
Occultism and the
Art of Synesthesia
(/2014/03/19
/victorianoccultism-and-theart-of-synesthesia/)
Grounded in the theory
that ideas, emotions, and
even events, can
manifest as visible auras,
Annie Besant and
Charles Leadbeaters
Thought-Forms (1901)
is an odd and intriguing
work. Benjamin Breen
explores these
synesthetic
abstractions and asks to
what extent they, and the
Victorian mysticism of
which they were born,
influenced the Modernist
movement that
flourished in the
following decades.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2014/03/19/victorianoccultism-and-theart-of-synesthesia/)
Encounter at the
crossroads of
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Lost in
Translation: Proust
and Scott
Moncrieff (/2013
/11/13/lostin-translationproust-and-scottmoncrieff/)
Scott Moncrieff's
English translation of
Proust's A la recherche
du temps perdu is widely
hailed as a masterpiece
in its own right. His
rendering of the title as
Remembrance of Things
Past is not, however,
considered a high point.
William C. Carter
explores the two men's
correspondence on this
somewhat sticky issue
and how the
Shakespearean title
missed the mark
regarding Proust's theory
of memory. Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2013/11/13/lostin-translation-proustand-scott-moncrieff/)
LEIBNIZ: AN INTELLECTUAL
BIOGRAPHY (Cambridge University
Press, 2009)
by Maria Rosa Antognazza
In this first intellectual biography of Gottfried
Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716), Maria Rosa
Antognazza surveys the full range of the
philosophers interests and activities and offers a unified portrait of
a unique thinker, identifying the master project that inspired and
coordinated his huge range of apparently miscellaneous endeavors.
(HTTPS://WWW.AMAZON.COM/LEIBNIZINTELLECTUAL-MARIAROSA-ANTOGNAZZA
/DP/1107627613?TAG=THEPUBDOMREV-20)
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FURTHER READING (/further-reading/).
Europe the
fellowship of Zweig
and Verhaeren
(/2013/12/11
/encounter-at-thecrossroadsof-europethe-fellowshipof-zweigand-verhaeren-2/)
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Coffeehouse (/2013
/08/07/the-lostworld-of-thelondoncoffeehouse/)
In contrast to todays
rather mundane spawn
of coffeehouse chains,
the London of the 17th
and 18th century was
home to an eclectic and
thriving coffee drinking
scene. Dr Matthew
Green explores the
halcyon days of the
London coffeehouse, a
haven for caffeinefueled debate and
innovation which helped
to shape Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2013/08/07/thelost-world-of-thelondon-coffeehouse/)
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Robert BadenPowells
Entomological
Intrigues (/2013
/07/10/robertbaden-powellsentomologicalintrigues/)
As a Lute out of
Tune: Robert
Burtons
Melancholy (/2013
/05/01/as-alute-out-of-tunerobert-burtonsmelancholy/)
In 1621 Robert Burton
first published his
masterpiece The
Anatomy of Melancholy,
a vast feat of scholarship
examining in
encyclopaedic detail that
most enigmatic of
maladies. Noga Arikha
explores the book, said
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Still Booking on De
Quinceys
Mail-Coach (/2013
/02/20/stillbooking-on-dequinceys-
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mail-coach/)
Robin Jarvis looks at
Thomas de Quinceys
essay The English
Mail-Coach, or the
Glory of Motion and
how its meditation on
technology and society
is just as relevant today
as when first published
in 1849. Detail from a
portrait Thomas de
Quincey by Sir John
Watson-Gordon, date
unkown Source.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
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The Polyglot of
Bologna (/2012
/06/26/the-polyglotof-bologna/)
Michael Erard takes a
look at The Life of
Cardinal Mezzofanti, a
book exploring the
extraordinary talent of
the 19th century Italian
cardinal who was
reported to be able to
speak over seventy
languages. Mezzofanti
as pictured in the
frontispiece to The Life
of Cardinal Mezzofanti;
with an introductory
memoir Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2012/06/26/thepolyglot-of-bologna/)
The Krakatoa
Sunsets (/2012
/05/28
/the-krakatoasunsets/)
When a volcano erupted
on a small island in
Indonesia in 1883, the
evening skies of the
world glowed for
months with strange
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colours. Richard
Hamblyn explores a
little-known series of
letters that the poet
Gerard Manley Hopkins
sent in to the journal
Nature describing the
phenomenon letters
that Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2012/05/28/thekrakatoa-sunsets/)
An Unlikely
Lunch: When
Maupassant met
Swinburne (/2012
/01/24/an-unlikelylunchwhen-maupassantmet-swinburne/)
Julian Barnes on when a
young Guy de
Maupassant was invited
to lunch at the holiday
cottage of Algernon
Swinburne. A flayed
human hand,
pornography, the serving
of monkey meat, and
inordinate amounts of
alcohol, all made for a
truly strange AngloFrench encounter.
Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2012/01/24/an-unlikelylunch-when-maupassantmet-swinburne/)
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The Memoirs of
Joseph Grimaldi
(/2011/11/14
/the-memoirsof-josephgrimaldi/)
Andrew McConnell
Stott, author of The
Pantomime Life of
Joseph Grimaldi,
introduces the life and
memoirs of the most
famous and celebrated
of English clowns. Few
biographers have proved
so reluctant, but when
the raw materials that
would become *The
Memoirs of Joseph
Grimaldi* reached
Charles Dickens desk in
the Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2011/11/14/thememoirs-of-josephgrimaldi/)
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American
Kaleidoscope:
Morton Prince and
the Boston
Revolution in
Psychotherapy
(/2011/08/05
/americankaleidoscopemorton-princeand-the-bostonrevolutionin-psychotherapy/)
In 1906 the American
physician and
neurologist Henry
Morton Prince published
his remarkable
monograph The
Dissociation of a
Personality in which he
details the condition of
Sally Beauchamp,
America's first famous
multiple-personality
case. George Prochnik
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Christopher
Smarts Jubilate
Agno (/2011/01/31
/christophersmarts-jubilateagno/)
The poet Christopher
Smart also known as
Kit Smart, Kitty
Smart, Jack Smart
and, on occasion, Mrs
Mary Midnight was
a well known figure in
18th-century London.
Nowadays he is perhaps
best known for
considering his cat
Jeoffry. Writer and
broadcaster Frank Key
looks at Smarts weird
and Continued
(http://publicdomainrevie
/2011/01/31/christophersmarts-jubilate-agno/)
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