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Spectra of the stars and nebulae, Spectrum Analysis, Henry E. Roscoe, London, 1885.

Spectra of the stars and nebulae, Spectrum Analysis, Henry E. Roscoe, London, 1885. (Photo: Smithsonian Libraries, Washington, D.C.)

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Application of anesthesia, Illustrations of Strange Diseases and Their Surgical Treatments, Hanaoka Seishū, 1805; illustrated by Tangetsu. (Photo: US National Library of Medicine)

Montgolfier balloon carrying the Marquis d’Arlandes and M. Pilatre de Rozier, Paris, 1783

Montgolfier balloon carrying the Marquis d’Arlandes and M. Pilatre de Rozier, Paris, 1783 (Photo: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Tissandier Collection)

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