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| 1856 | | First Paper to Link CO2 and Global Warming (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 216 points | 5 years ago with 107 comments |
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| 1864 | | Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for “Alice’s Adventures Under Ground” (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 128 points | 3 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1792 | | A treatise concerning the properties and effects of coffee (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 90 points | 2 years ago with 25 comments |
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| 1768 | | An Essay on Diseases Incidental to Literary and Sedentary Persons (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 85 points | 2 years ago with 59 comments |
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| 1898 | | Cryptography: Or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 75 points | 7 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1685 | | John Locke’s Method for Common-Place Books (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 71 points | 5 years ago with 12 comments |
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| 1921 | | Fabre’s Book of Insects (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 71 points | 5 years ago with 9 comments |
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| 1909 | | The Up-To-Date Sandwich Book (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 68 points | 8 years ago with 22 comments |
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| 1843 | | Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Gold-Bug” (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 65 points | 5 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 2011 | | Aspiring to a Higher Plane: “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions” (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 65 points | 8 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 1890 | | Adolf Schmidt’s Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 52 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1754 | | William Hogarth’s Satire on False Perspective (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 51 points | 4 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1556 | | Bruegel the Elder’s “Big Fish Eat Little Fish” (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 48 points | 3 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1493 | | Albrecht Dürer’s Pillow Studies (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 46 points | 3 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1900 | | “Mother Will Be Pleased”: How It Feels to Be Run over (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 46 points | 2 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 1749 | | A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 45 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1692 | | Ikkyū in Hell: Skeletons (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 44 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments |
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| 1909 | | On the Road: The Woman and the Car (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 44 points | 3 years ago with 11 comments |
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| 1944 | | Ancient Courses: Harold Fisk’s Meander Maps of the Mississippi River (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 43 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1836 | | Hokusai’s Illustrated Warrior Vanguard of Japan and China (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 41 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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| 1870 | | The diagrammatic writings of an asylum patient (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 40 points | 3 years ago with 5 comments |
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| 1913 | | In the Mind of Marie: A Haunting Encounter in the Gardens of Versailles (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 39 points | 1 year ago with 11 comments |
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| 1928 | | Season's Bleatings: Finnish Photographs of the Nuuttipukki (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 36 points | 1 year ago with 4 comments |
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| 1920 | | The Discarnates: Thomas Carlyle in the Spirit-World (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 35 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1410 | | The Flower of Battle: Italian Fighting Manual (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 35 points | 3 years ago with 7 comments |
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| 1920 | | Divide and Concur: A Radical Plan for Peace in Europe (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 33 points | 1 year ago with 11 comments |
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| 2016 | | “Let us Calculate”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 33 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2016 | | The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 31 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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| 1898 | | The Story of the Sun, Moon, and Stars (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 29 points | 2 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1824 | | Punctuation Personified (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 29 points | 2 years ago with 4 comments |
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| 1763 | | “A sword was seen in the sky”: A true and wonderful narrative (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 28 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2012 | | Trüth, Beaüty, and Volapük (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 27 points | 2 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 1671 | | The Works of Mars (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 26 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 1730 | | “Those Disturbers of My Rest”: The First Treatise on Bedbugs (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 26 points | 1 year ago with 9 comments |
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| 1899 | | Frost Flowers on the Windows (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 25 points | 2 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 1869 | | Specimens of Fancy Turning (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 21 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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| 2011 | | Aspiring to a Higher Plane (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 21 points | 3 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1878 | | Shores of the Polar Sea (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 20 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1705 | | Dool-Hoff: A Dutch Maze with New Jerusalem at Its Centre (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 19 points | 2 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 1909 | | Many-Colored Misdirection: Concealing-Coloration in the Animal Kingdom (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 19 points | 2 years ago with 1 comments |
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| 1919 | | A Melting Cauldron: The Book of Hallowe'en (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 19 points | 1 year ago with 6 comments |
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| 1893 | | Indian Sign Talk (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 18 points | 2 years ago with 13 comments |
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| 1936 | | Manhattan’s Last Arcadia: Estate Plans from the Index of American Design (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 17 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1787 | | Resurrection on Repeat: Rules and Orders of the Humane Society (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 17 points | 3 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1903 | | The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 17 points | 1 year ago with 2 comments |
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| 2011 | | The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 15 points | 1 year ago with 0 comments |
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| 1915 | | Atlas of the Munsell Color System (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 15 points | 2 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1880 | | Aspirated Aspirations: Alfred Leach’s the Letter H (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 13 points | 3 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 1615 | | A Hall of Mirrors: Cabala, Spiegel Der Kunst Und Natur, in Alchymia (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 12 points | 3 years ago with 0 comments |
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| 1825 | | The Astrologer of the Nineteenth Century (publicdomainreview.org) |
| 12 points | 1 year ago with 3 comments |
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