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montypop.bsky.social
@montypop.bsky.social
I hang out with old sciencey books at that big university by the ocean on unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm.
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it's me, unnamed critter from bosch's triptych of the temptation of anthony!
November 1, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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One LA Block: 100’s N Sycamore
October 28, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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Parents, please check your kids’ candy this Halloween. I’ve just found an ancient metal whistle with the inscription “QUIS EST ISTE QUI VENIT" inside a Snickers bar. I blew it and heard a note of infinite distance, and now I’m haunted by a figure in pale, fluttering draperies. Be safe.
October 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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October 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Dissected torso produced in wax by the famed Florentine modeller Clemente Susini
October 17, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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October 14, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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A happy October wish for us all.
🖼️ Grasset
October 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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September 25, 2025 at 2:27 PM
As someone who loves new books about old books this is deeply exciting and one of the most satisfying things I've ever done.
July 7, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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Kastle Kreme
Galesburg, IL
June 27, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Oh I love it though.
Time for another round of extreme cataloguing. This time it's Court of Wards pleadings. Horrible stuff. Well, no, the content is great, but it's horrible wrestling with it.
June 16, 2025 at 8:14 PM
No, for real
May 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Speaking of lobotomies,but more cheerful, here is the cat sleeping with her face smashed into my bra on a chilly day. #onebraincell
May 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Back on the lobotomy content again, decanting some of Margaret Kennard's stuff for individual cataloguing. Sigh.
May 23, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Bee anatomy from ‘Dr. Lampe’s Bienenzucht’ published in Leipzig by P. Berger, [1909?].

UW-Madison’s Special Collections library.

#foldoutanatomy #worldbeeday #moveablebooks #bees #animalart #naturalhistory #scientificart
May 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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These scientific illustrations by Orra Hitchcock (1796–1863) — executed on poster-sized linen swaths and hung on classroom walls — are striking for their modern abstraction. More here in our latest post by @eayers0: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/hitchcock-illustrations
May 14, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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One of many wonderful full-page watercolour illustrations in a 16th-century edition of Pedanius Dioscorides’s work on herbal medicine, De Materia Medica (ca. 80 AD). More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/w...
May 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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One of the plates from Jacques Fabien Gautier d’Agoty’s “Suite de l’Essai d’anatomie en tableaux imprimés” from 1745. This illustration is often known as The Flayed Angel. I’ve seen a number of original editions of Gautier d’Agoty’s books in various places and they’re always stunning.
April 29, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Looking at times like some kind of strange fusion of De Stijl abstraction and Tetris, behold the enigmatic "color analysis" charts of Emily Noyes Vanderpoel from her 1901 book Color Problems: A Practical Manual for the Lay Student of Color.

More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/c...
April 29, 2025 at 2:16 PM
An early harvest this year.
April 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Total Eclipse of the Sun, 1882. Chromolithograph after a pastel drawing by astronomer, artist, and amateur entomologist Étienne Léopold Trouvelot, who died on this day in 1895.

More on his life and stunning astronomical art here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/t...
April 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
1914 health advice pamphlets from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company about the dangers of whooping cough and measles.
April 15, 2025 at 10:38 PM
Sometimes I like to look at Brighton property listings to remember why we left. Holy hell.
April 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
We've just had a casual little 5.0-earthquake here at work AND I had to change my work passwords this morning. Ugh.
February 21, 2025 at 9:44 PM