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Explorable Archive of Art from the Romantic Era

Section Editors: Theresa M. Kelley
, Jacob Leveton
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Illustrations explaining the construction of an optic device

Unknown
In collaboration with Edme-Gilles Guyot

“Plate 15” from Nouvelles recreations exemplifies the dual purpose of many scientific recreation texts: to explain the physical science in question and to instruct the reader on how to easily recreate and perform scientific experiments.

Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques, Plate 15

Illustrations showing several light-manipulating devices

Unknown
In collaboration with Edme-Gilles Guyot

The text and its accompanying plates delineate how to create optical instruments for recreational scientific experiments.

Nouvelles récréations physiques et mathématiques, Plate 16

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Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, &c.: Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; Made in the Summer of the Year 1770

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Observations on the River Wye, and Several Parts of South Wales, etc. Relative Chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; Made in the Summer of the Year 1770

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Off the Normandy Coast

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Old England: A Pictorial Museum of Regal, Ecclesiastical, Municipal, Baronial, and Popular Antiquities

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Oliver Hazard Perry

A diagram explaining various properties of sound


In collaboration with Thomas Young

Using mathematical techniques, this image visually depicts aural phenomena: the sound waves produced by playing an octave. The image uses scientific diagrams to depict sound waves and vibrational patterns.

Outlines of Experiments and Inquiries Respecting Sound and Light, Plate VI

A diagram explaining octave and variant systems of tuning


In collaboration with Thomas Young

This image depicts an octave as rendered differently by each temperament. Young particularly emphasizes circumference Y, which represents the system that Young found most effective: twelve-tone equal temperament.

Outlines of Experiments and Inquiries Respecting Sound and Light, Plate VII

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Outlines of Phrenology

braided bits of hair glued to a page

Unknown

 Five wreaths of human hair have been looped through ribbons of various colors, which have in turn been stitched onto a page in a handmade booklet.

Page from Hair Work Album, 1840s 

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Paradise Lost

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