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Twilight of the Velocipede: Typesetting Races Before the Age of Linotype

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/twilight-of-the-velocipede/

#HackerNews #TwilightOfTheVelocipede #TypesettingHistory #Linotype #Innovation #PrintingPress #CyclingHistory #PublicDomainReview

#Alphabeth de la #Bourbonnoise (1789) from our collection of #humanalphabets #nudeart http://buff.ly/2sDRU2y
#publicdomainreview #alphabet #font #humans #humanbody #typography #letters #writing #abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

#Alphabeth de la #Bourbonnoise (1789) from our collection of #humanalphabets #nudeart http://buff.ly/2sDRU2y
#publicdomainreview #alphabet #font #humans #humanbody #typography #letters #writing #abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

Frank Dudley Beane's Experience with Ergot and Cannabis Indica (1884)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experience-with-ergot-and-cannabis/

#HackerNews #FrankDudleyBeane #Ergot #CannabisIndica #History #ofScience #PublicDomainReview

Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/claude-monet-caricatures/

#HackerNews #Monet #Caricatures #Art #History #Impressionism #1850s #PublicDomainReview

Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/claude-monet-caricatures/

#HackerNews #Monet #Caricatures #Art #History #Impressionism #1850s #PublicDomainReview

Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/claude-monet-caricatures/

#HackerNews #Monet #Caricatures #Art #History #Impressionism #1850s #PublicDomainReview

Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/claude-monet-caricatures/

#HackerNews #Monet #Caricatures #Art #History #Impressionism #1850s #PublicDomainReview

Doing Impressions: Monet's Early Caricatures (ca. late 1850s)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/claude-monet-caricatures/

#HackerNews #Monet #Caricatures #Art #History #Impressionism #1850s #PublicDomainReview

1/ As far as I can tell, there are no #AI tools to help determine whether an arbitrary #book is in the #PublicDomain for an arbitrary country.

I respect the best of the non-AI tools and services already doing parts of this complex job, such as the #HathiTrust Rights Determination, #Stanford Copyright Renewal Database, and the #PublicDomainReview Guide to Finding Public Domain Works Online.

But there seems to be a niche for testing to see whether AI tools might do this job better and faster.

#Copyright #ScholComm

🧵

D. Graham Burnett traces today's attention crisis back to WWI "pursuit tests": multi-stimulus rigs that measured how well aviators could track 14 lights, a motor, and an amp meter simultaneously.

The inversion: we don't have an attention deficit. We have an attention surplus of the wrong kind. Our cybernetic attention (tracking, clicking, responding to machine stimuli) is sublime. It's our human attention (daydreaming, being present, reading uninterrupted) that's disappearing.

An ethnographer from Mars would think we're attentional champions. We stare at screens all day.

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/cybernetic-attention/

#attention #cybernetics #technology #history #PublicDomainReview

D. Graham Burnett traces today's attention crisis back to WWI "pursuit tests" \u2014 multi-stimulus rigs that measured how well aviators could track 14 lights, a motor, and an amp meter simultaneously.\n\nThe inversion: we don't have an attention deficit. We have an attention surplus of the wrong kind. Our cybernetic attention (tracking, clicking, responding to machine stimuli) is sublime. It's our human attention (daydreaming, being present, reading uninterrupted) that's disappearing.\n\nAn ethnographer from Mars would think we're attentional champions. We stare at screens all day.\n\nhttps://publicdomainreview.org/essay/cybernetic-attention/\n\n#attention #cybernetics #technology #history #PublicDomainReview --confirm

Cover book 1869

Full book here: https://archive.org/details/Spectrumanalysi00Rosc

From Public Domain Review, full article here: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-art-of-book-covers-1820-1914/?fbclid=IwY2xjawPWBVtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEegFtY_tSBZhiNEfTJOrW3VJGE6Unl1JW073tjfvNXA1se8ryLA01Q7oEiWAc_aem_H8VoqEUxb9GwG0HzFd4x0g

#illustration #book #oldbook #PublicDomain #1860s #1800s #cover #bookcover #PublicDomainReview

A fun collection of images from The Public Domain Review: Snowball Fights in Art (1400-1946)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/snowball-fights/

(scroll down under the article for lots of images)

#PublicDomain #PublicDomainReview #Art #snow

Luke Howard's Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/essay-on-the-modification-of-clouds/

#HackerNews #LukeHoward #Essay #Clouds #1865 #PublicDomainReview #WeatherScience

Luke Howard's Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/essay-on-the-modification-of-clouds/

#HackerNews #LukeHoward #Essay #Clouds #1865 #PublicDomainReview #WeatherScience

Luke Howard's Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/essay-on-the-modification-of-clouds/

#HackerNews #LukeHoward #Essay #Clouds #1865 #PublicDomainReview #WeatherScience

Luke Howard's Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/essay-on-the-modification-of-clouds/

#HackerNews #LukeHoward #Essay #Clouds #1865 #PublicDomainReview #WeatherScience

Luke Howard's Essay on the Modification of Clouds (1865)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/essay-on-the-modification-of-clouds/

#HackerNews #LukeHoward #Essay #Clouds #1865 #PublicDomainReview #WeatherScience

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/le-brun-human-animal-hybrids/

#HackerNews #TheNatureOfTheBeast #CharlesLeBrun #HumanAnimalHybrids #ArtHistory #PublicDomainReview

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/le-brun-human-animal-hybrids/

#HackerNews #TheNatureOfTheBeast #CharlesLeBrun #HumanAnimalHybrids #ArtHistory #PublicDomainReview

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/le-brun-human-animal-hybrids/

#HackerNews #TheNatureOfTheBeast #CharlesLeBrun #HumanAnimalHybrids #ArtHistory #PublicDomainReview

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/le-brun-human-animal-hybrids/

#HackerNews #TheNatureOfTheBeast #CharlesLeBrun #HumanAnimalHybrids #ArtHistory #PublicDomainReview

The Nature of the Beast: Charles Le Brun's Human-Animal Hybrids (1806)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/le-brun-human-animal-hybrids/

#HackerNews #TheNatureOfTheBeast #CharlesLeBrun #HumanAnimalHybrids #ArtHistory #PublicDomainReview

Manuscript of Ismail al-Jazarī's Ingenious Mechanical Devices (ca. 17th century)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/arabic-machine-manuscript/

#HackerNews #IsmailalJazari #IngeniousDevices #MechanicalHistory #ArabicManuscript #PublicDomainReview

Through a Glass Lushly: Michalina Janoszanka's Reverse Paintings (Ca. 1920s)

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/michalina-janoszanka/

#HackerNews #Through #a #Glass #Lushly #Michalina #Janoszanka #Reverse #Paintings #Art #History #1920s #PublicDomainReview

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/japanese-firemans-coats-19th-century/

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Japanese Firemen’s Coats (19th century)

#PublicDomainReview

Between 1617 and 1621 the English physician and polymath Robert Fludd published his masterpiece Utriusque Cosmi . . . Historia, a two-volume work packed with over sixty intricate engravings. Urszula Szulakowska looks at the philosophical and theological ideas behind the extraordinary images found in the first volume, an exploration of the macrocosm of the universe and spiritual realm.

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/robert-fludd-and-his-images-of-the-divine/

#publicdomainreview

👹 👻 Happy Halloween 🎃 ☠️

(Image from #PublicDomainReview, which is all kinds of awesome: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/halloween-postcards/)

"The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life"
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-uncertain-heavens #publicdomainreview

La Public Domain Review (Revue du domaine public) est désormais présente sur Mastodon :
@publicdomainrev
Il s'agit d'un projet non commercial sous la forme d'un site web qui partage des œuvres désormais dans le domaine public et qui s'intéresse à l'histoire de l'art, de la littérature et des idées. Beaucoup de belles images à voir et des articles à lire (en anglais).
Le site :
https://publicdomainreview.org/
#domainepublic #publicdomainreview #art #littérature #sciences

"We wanted to do something for the PDR [Public Domain Review] community in these strange and (for most) mainly house-bound times, and so we made you a colouring book — free to download and print off at home."

https://publicdomainreview.org/blog/2020/03/free-colouring-book

#PublicDomainReview #ColouringBook #Art

@libreture