• 1950s Smart Homes and the Longevity of Design https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2019/12/1950s-smart-homes-and-longevity-of.html 35 comments 13/12/2019
• From Quacks to Quaaludes: Three Centuries of Drug Advertising (2012) https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2012/06/from-quacks-to-quaaludes-three.html 3 comments 5/12/2019
• Early Modern Drugs and Medicinal Cannibalism (2012) https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2012/12/early-modern-drugs-and-medicinal.html 8 comments 26/11/2019
• Early Chinese World Maps (2010) https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2010/09/wanguo-quantu.html 26 comments 24/11/2019
• Seventeenth-century Europeans ate mummies (2015) https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-did-seventeenth-century-europeans.html 10 comments 22/10/2019
• The Most Wonderful Map in the World: Urbano Monte's Planisphere of 1587 https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2019/03/the-most-wonderful-map-in-world.html 24 comments 29/3/2019
• Opium or Cucumber? Debunking a Myth About Sumerian Drugs https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2018/08/opium-or-cucumber-debunking-myth-about.html 11 comments 23/8/2018
• When California Was the Bear Republic https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2018/07/when-california-was-bear-republic.html 77 comments 15/7/2018
• The Art of Fooling the Eye (2011) https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/10/art-of-fooling-eye.html 4 comments 18/6/2018
• A Medieval Emperor's Natural Language Experiment https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-medieval-emperors-natural-language.html 13 comments 23/5/2018
• Happy Lupercalia (2011) https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/02/happy-lupercalia.html 4 comments 14/2/2018
• What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2017/11/what-did-17th-century-food-taste-like.html 54 comments 12/11/2017
• Urine, Phosphorus, and the Philosopher's Stone https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2017/06/urine-phosphorus-and-philosophers-stone.html 2 comments 30/6/2017
• Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk? https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2017/05/why-are-there-so-many-17th-century.html 41 comments 4/5/2017
• On the Women’s Petition Against Coffee of 1674 https://resobscura.blogspot.com/2017/04/that-newfangled-abominable-heathenish.html 19 comments 8/4/2017
• How to Write the History of Science? http://resobscura.blogspot.com/2016/02/how-to-write-history-of-science.html 15 comments 3/2/2016
• The Domestic Life of Alchemists (2011) http://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/01/alchemists-at-home.html 10 comments 10/12/2015
• Why Did Seventeenth-Century Europeans Eat Mummies? http://resobscura.blogspot.com/2015/12/why-did-seventeenth-century-europeans.html 7 comments 5/12/2015
• A Spaniard in Samarkand, 1404 (2012) http://resobscura.blogspot.com/2012/10/a-spaniard-in-samarkand-1404.html 5 comments 21/12/2014
• The Art of Fooling the Eye (2011) http://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/10/art-of-fooling-eye.html 2 comments 4/6/2014

• The 16th c. merchant Matthäus Schwarz was ordinary in many ways - except for the fact that he commissioned one of the strangest historical documents of his era: over 150 paintings of the clothes he wore in each year of his life, from infant to teenage fop to banker, soldier and old man. http://resobscura.blogspot.com/2011/07/renaissance-merchants-life-in-clothing.html 10 comments 25/7/2011 history
• Ambrotypes were an early (1850s) photographic process that made haunting, detailed images: here are a black Civil War soldier, a Brazilian child, a Boston abolitionist, a West Indian sailor's wife, and more. http://resobscura.blogspot.com/2010/12/early-victorian-ambrotypes.html 3 comments 23/12/2010 history
• Images from pre-modern maps of Africa: chameleons, zebras, dragons, 'Hottentots' and King Manuel of Portugal riding on a sea monster's back. Via Res Obscura. http://resobscura.blogspot.com/2010/12/mapping-nature-in-age-of-discovery-pt-i.html 8 comments 2/12/2010 history
• Images From The Voynich Manuscript http://resobscura.blogspot.com/2010/06/images-from-voynich-manuscript.html 9 comments 28/10/2010 history