Posts by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #B1ge7ggcMFVOyrpQrA by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2025-12-27T17:45:58Z
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Invent Monopoly, do not collect $200... Lizzie Maggie's "Landlord's Game" and how an anti-capitalist board game invented by a woman became an uber-capitalist game that profited a man: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-landlords-game/
(DIR) Post #B1ivdUdKnDtoP1xrXM by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2025-12-29T00:02:03Z
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Entering the US public domain in 2026: Dashiell Hammett's The Maltese Falcon.More info behind window 28 of our advent-style countdown calendar for works entering the #publicdomain on Jan 1st: https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2026/ #PDin2026
(DIR) Post #B1qXvMGPo3dU1PuS3c by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-01-01T15:39:58Z
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Happy Public Domain Day! At the start of each year, a new set of works is freed from copyright — ready to be shared, reused, and reimagined. See our highlights — Hannah Arendt, Albert Einstein, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, and many more. https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2026/01/public-domain-day-2026/ #publicdomain
(DIR) Post #B1qYu61kmtbDKW0v3Y by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2025-12-15T12:47:36Z
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Margaret Cavendish, one of the first women writers to publish under her own name, died #onthisday in 1673. Read about her proto-sci-fi fantasy The Blazing World, and what it can teach us about empire, gender + imagination in the seventeenth century: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/mistress-of-a-new-world-early-science-fiction-in-europes-age-of-discovery #OTD
(DIR) Post #B1sZCaoXRyD4LHZXdo by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-01-02T15:16:27Z
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New year's resolution to do more exercise? A business man? Then this 1917 book, Physical Training for Business Men, may be the perfect January read. (And for everyone else, you can just look at the spellbinding photos). More here: https://buff.ly/3pJoD46
(DIR) Post #B1yk2mKq1dZ3cdxjkG by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-01-05T15:17:23Z
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As many embark boldly (and perhaps temporarily) on brand new gym memberships, here's a look at where it all started: the workout machines of the 19th century: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/zander-gym
(DIR) Post #B23Nfv24ySz9mvzxVg by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-01-07T20:48:22Z
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A few of the 80+ illustrations by Pauline Knip for Les Pigeons (1810), a publication mired in controversy. See our post for more of the stunning images, and a story of plagiarism, power, pretence and... pigeons: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/les-pigeons
(DIR) Post #B2NPG8pj7uDW8CFt9k by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-01-17T12:47:03Z
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Born #onthisday in 1574, the great occult philosopher Robert Fludd. Pictured here his image of the "spiritual brain". More about the man and his philosophy in our essay by Urszula Szulakowska: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/robert-fludd-and-his-images-of-the-divine #otd
(DIR) Post #B2NdEYlV8l8HKvQ1Uu by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-01-17T15:18:08Z
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Died #onthisday in 1834, Giovanni Aldini, the Italian "galvanist" whose experiments in animating the muscles of the dead with electricity inspired Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Read more in our essay by Sharon Ruston: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-science-of-life-and-death-in-mary-shelleys-frankenstein
(DIR) Post #B2RlBfNxMvAJ0AvYSO by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-01-19T15:18:57Z
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Pages from Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515), including some delightful play with scale. From the @metmuseum. More in our post: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-flower-studies/
(DIR) Post #B33hHZuhKIElH9pPnc by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-02-06T20:45:36Z
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Pudet = Face Palm. From John Bulwer's Chirologia, or The Naturall Language of the Hand (1644), the English physician's attempt to record the vocabulary contained in hand gestures and bodily motions.⠀More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/chirologia-or-the-natural-language-of-the-hand-1644
(DIR) Post #B359hiKBfUa0lYxfjE by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-02-07T15:15:39Z
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“The flying Dragon is somewhat troublesome to compose...”From The Mysteries of Nature and Art (1634) — an illustrated manual for building devices relating to water works, fireworks, drawing, painting + miscellaneous experiments "confusedly intermixed": https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-mysteries-of-nature-and-art
(DIR) Post #B375xbDRr3xlqs34C0 by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-02-08T12:45:37Z
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French novelist Jules Verne was born #onthisday in 1828. His fantastic tales of voyage and adventure have lent themselves to many wonderful illustrations but perhaps none so captivating as those by Émile-Antoine Bayard for Around the Moon (1870) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/emile-antoine-bayard-s-illustrations-for-around-the-moon-by-jules-verne-1870 #otd
(DIR) Post #B37jKUg4E8SqRiLIrg by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-02-08T20:47:25Z
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“The Object of that incomprehensible Being, which alone and in himself comprehends and constitutes supreme Perfection.”One of the 32 stunning illustrative plates to feature in Thomas Wright's An Original Theory or New Hypothesis of the Universe (1750): https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/an-original-theory-or-new-hypothesis-of-the-universe
(DIR) Post #B3BMxgsNHocLG8f0dM by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-02-10T15:17:19Z
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Illustrations from William F. Warren's The Universe as Pictured in Milton’s Paradise Lost (1915). More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-universe-as-pictured-in-miltons-paradise-lost
(DIR) Post #B3DfnJtQAXlKWmq1s8 by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-02-11T15:16:22Z
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“Because so much money creeps into my sack, the whole world climbs into my hole.”More Flemish Proverbs engraved by Jan Wierix (ca. 1568) in the post on our website: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/wierix-flemish-proverbs/
(DIR) Post #B3Dfs957nBmiRfc67s by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-02-11T17:48:26Z
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Centaurs, dragons, and snail shell houses — just a few of the otherworldly marvels depicted in a 15th-century French manuscript (BnF, Français 22971) illustrated by Robert Testard. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/secrets-de-l-histoire-naturelle/
(DIR) Post #B3FjXKc0W2noG2FDo8 by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-02-12T17:46:31Z
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Brook Wilensky-Lanford looks at the ideas of William Fairfield Warren who, in his book Paradise Found, tried to geographically locate the Garden of Eden to the North Pole: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-last-great-explorer-william-f-warren-and-the-search-for-eden
(DIR) Post #B3FzMBMQAdM5e7exyS by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-02-12T20:46:20Z
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A few of the stunning illustrations from a 16th-century treatise on comets — known as The Comet Book — created anonymously in Flanders (now northern France). More info and images from the book here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-comet-book
(DIR) Post #B3HbSZb2xw6Vxxw2qW by publicdomainrev@mastodon.social
2026-02-13T15:17:47Z
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Painted on a thin plate of ivory just 2.6 x 3.1 inches, this "self-portrait" of the painter Sarah Goodridge's breasts was given (as a kind of "proto-sext"?) to the recently widowed US senator Daniel Webster in 1828. More on the story here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/sarah-goodridges-beauty-revealed-1828