Description from the page: "16th & 17th century stylised alphabets from about seven European artist/engravers." From Bibliodyssey.
Photos from the fifties up through today.
Proof that people in the 1400s didn't know how to count the legs on an insect.
This is seriously freaking cool ... you have to click through to see the image though. It's a map of known objects in the universe arranged by distance from the earth, with the distance plotted on a logarithmic scale.
Seen on Jim Groom's Twitter stream. Very cool.
Okay, yes, this is mean-spirited, and I'm a bad person for thinking it's funny ... but it is kind of funny anyway.
Ambrosius Holbein's "Map of Utopia," in color, published with Thomas More's 1515 satire, Utopia.
Published in the Saturday Evening Post on four consecutive weeks in February and March, 1943.
From his series of paintings of Mustang (in Nepal), focusing on the living quarters of Buddhist monks (1998, I think).
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