Reads tagged with “public domain”
Stunning Celestial Art from the 1750 Astronomy Book That First Described the Spiral Shape of the Milky Way and Dared Imagine the Existence of Other Galaxies
The story of a forgotten visionary suspended between science and spiritual yearning, who inspired Kant and anticipated Hubble.
Walt Whitman on What Makes a Great Person and What Wisdom Really Means
“The past, the future, majesty, love — if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.”
The Great Barrier Reef: Stunning 19th-Century Illustrations from the World’s First Encyclopedia of One of Earth’s Most Vibrant and Delicate Ecosystems
A symphonic hymn for our planet’s lushest underwater wonderland.
Bicycling for Ladies: An Illustrated 1896 Manifesto for the Universal Splendors of the Bicycle as an Instrument of Self-Reliance, a Training Machine for Living with Uncertainty, and a Portal to Joy
“You are at all times independent. This absolute freedom of the cyclist can be known only to the initiated.”
The Psychology of Social Rule: Pioneering Sociologist Elsie Clews Parsons’s Prophetic Century-Old Study of Power, the Rise of Divisiveness, and Why We Classify Ourselves and Others
“Classification is nine-tenths of subjection.”
Why We Like What We Like: Poet and Philosopher George Santayana on the Formation and Confirmation of Our Standards and Sensibilities
“Half our standards come from our first masters, and the other half from our first loves.”
The Science and Splendor of Australian Butterflies: How Two 19th-Century Teenage Sisters’ Forgotten Paintings Sparked a Triumph of Modern Conservation
A bittersweet story of staggering talent, obsessive curiosity, countercultural courage, and posthumous redemption.
Spring in a Pandemic: Mary Shelley on What Makes Life Worth Living and Nature’s Beauty as a Lifeline to Regaining Sanity
“There is but one solution to the intricate riddle of life; to improve ourselves, and contribute to the happiness of others.”
Virginia Woolf on Finding Beauty in the Uncertainty of Time, Space, and Being
Calibration and consolation for those moments when it seems impossible that we should ever again recompose the world’s broken fragments into a harmonious whole.
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