Portrait of Richard Owen (ca. 1880s).

Source: @wellcomecollection.bsky.social

Available to buy as a print.

https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1459d7ae-b2e0-4924-b63b-ecb02afbcffb

#paleontology #portrait #victorianscience #photography #art #publicdomain

4 new #VictorianStudies arrivals!
Asha Hornsby's book "Vivisection and Late-Victorian Literary Culture" analyses the British #antivivisection movement and its discourses around #animalprotection in #VictorianLiterature & science & the press

#LiteraryStudies #VictorianScience #academicsky

All that for a cup of coffee
#savad #coffee #machine #steampunk #VictorianScience

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From the cabinet:a woodcut of Pepper's Ghost, 1863: a pane of glass anda hidden lamp cast a spectre among the living,and crowds swore they saw a ghost,though no glass was visible. What is a ghost but a trick of light played upon the believing eye? #CabinetOfCuriosities #VictorianScience

From the cabinet: a zoetrope strip, c.1860 - a dog printed twelve times, each frame a still. Spun in the slotted drum they blur into one motion: a moving picture before film. Horner's wheel of life, 1834, made an eye-trick of a toy. #CabinetOfCuriosities #VictorianScience

From the cabinet: Babbage's Difference Engine, 1832 — an engine of brass and cog to cast error-free tables, never finished in its maker's lifetime. The one part completed still turns by candlelight. What a century might have done. #CabinetOfCuriosities #VictorianScience

From the cabinet: Faber's Euphonia, 1846 — a speaking machine of bellows, reeds and a clockwork throat that voiced whole sentences in a ghostly monotone at Egyptian Hall. Audiences heard a head converse with no mind behind it. What haunts the hollow machine? #CabinetOfCuriosities #VictorianScience

From the cabinet: Crookes's radiometer, 1873 — a glass bulb of vanes that spins when light falls on it, half instrument, half riddle. Whether that force be light or heated air was argued a decade. What unseen hand turns a machine we only watch? #CabinetOfCuriosities #VictorianScience

With due respect, I humbly suggest terms excluding the #prejudicial & broad–brush painting descriptors,‘white‘, ‘black‘, and ‘yellow‘; I recommend simply (Euro-) #supremacist; I’ve been advocating—since the #GenomeProject —ending use of #VictorianScience terms. #HuesSubjugate; they don’t liberate.