Perhaps our most sensuous volume yet, this third offering in our selected essays series is positively bursting with goodness, including chocolate highs, scorbutic visions, wonky badgers, sexy flora, deadly fogs, mathematical fish, coloured cubes of hyperspace, a very naughty Aristotle, and pianos comprised of yelping cats.
Adorned with illustrations from the likes of Ernst Haeckel, J. J. Grandville, Gustave Doré, and William Hogarth, the book is a full-colour visual feast, all printed on sumptuous 70lb paper.
Adam Green
Introduction
Eugene Thacker
Black on Black
Christine Jones
When Chocolate was Medicine: Colmenero, Wadsworth and Dufour
Hugh Aldersey-Williams
A Bestiary of Sir Thomas Browne
Deirdre Loughridge and Thomas Patteson
Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments
Jonathan Lamb
Scurvy and the Terra Incognita
Mary Fissel
When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough: Aristotle’s Masterpiece
Matthew Beaumont
The Nightwalker and the Nocturnal Picaresque
Martin Kemp
Sex and Science in Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora
Kevin Dann
Dr Mitchill and the Mathematical Tetrodon
Caroline Wazer
The Eternal Guffaw: John Leech and The Comic History of Rome
Brett Beasley
Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City
Elaine Ayers
Richard Spruce and the Trials of Victorian Bryology
Jon Crabb
Notes on the Fourth Dimension
Abigail Walthausen
Tribal Life in Old Lyme: Canada’s Colorblind Chronicler and his Connecticut Exile
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- Affinities: A Journey Through Images from The Public Domain Review
- Oh Excellent Air Bag: Under the Influence of Nitrous Oxide, 1799–1920
- The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol. VI
- The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol. II
- The Public Domain Review: Selected Essays, Vol. VII
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