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Reading Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa’s encyclopedic study of magic is like stumbling into a vast cabinet of curiosities, where toad bones boil

Edison Studios film showing the lights of Luna Park and Dreamland during the peak of the famed New York amusement district.

19th-century German chromolithographs of paper lanterns, the kind used to celebrate St. Martin's Day.

In the 1850s, as photography took its first steps toward commercial reproducibility, a more intimate use for light-sensitive plates briefly

Artist Lisa Congdon renders vibrant geometric shapes and folk art symbols to create vivid works brimming with color and optimism.

The book features hundreds of black-and-white images that, before 2004, had been hidden in storage in the artist's Mexico City home.

"Of all the fungal species on Earth, we've only described about five percent," says biologist Merlin Sheldrake in the trailer for the visual