Illustration by Giovanni Battista Bracelli, from Bizzarie di Varie Figure (1624).

Source: US National Gallery of Art

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/381bb871-1bd0-40f9-b8d1-8e0ca9c04b40

#proto-cubism #abstract #shapes #art #publicdomain

Athanasius Kircher’s camera obscura (1905) by Athanasius Kircher, from Ausführliches Handbuch der Photographie.

Source: Rijksmuseum

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/bc008a7e-96aa-4e2a-8e59-f2ddb319df13

#cameras #diagrams #landscapes #camera-obscura #art #publicdomain

From Der Naturen Bloeme (ca. 1350).

Source: National Library of the Netherlands

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/84da8220-6431-4dc2-b0a8-02c0ed6b685b

#animals #fire #birds #bestiary #art #publicdomain

🔔 UPDATE April 2026 🔔

6,876 German federal laws and regulations now available #OpenAccess as a comprehensive corpus ⬇️

✅ 42 variables
✅ #OpenAccess
✅ #PublicDomain
✅ Regular snapshots of German federal law from May 2020
✅ Structural diagrams for all laws (dendrogram, sunburst, circlepack)
✅ Formats: XML, CSV, PDF, TXT, EPUB, GraphML

All downloads: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3832111

Documentation: https://zenodo.org/records/19481365/files/C-DBR_2026-04-09_Codebook.pdf?download=1

#Law #DigitalHumanities #LawFedi #OpenData #OpenScience #OpenSource #RStats @histodons @rstats @politicalscience @law @sociology

Woman Suffering from Chronic Mania (1869) by James Crichton-Browne.

Source: Wellcome Collection

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/11ae022e-5dd3-48d9-86b3-f6bf9286011b

#emotions #evolution #art #publicdomain

An Extinguisher (1856) by Charles H. Bennett, from Shadows.

Source: Harvard University

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/48bdd12c-2296-4ea4-92af-f8208cc58359

#shadows #victorian #physiognomy #art #publicdomain

https://youtu.be/JpktwEEOSd0

Les Clowns (1878) Charles-Émile Reynaud

Praxinoscope animation of trained dogs jumping through hoops.

#FilmHistory #PublicDomain #VintageCinema #CinephileCommunity #HandPainted #ÉmileReynaud
#1870s #1878 #MagicLantern #Praxinoscope #Phantasmagoria #dog #rings #hoops