The Two Trees (Hercules Seghers, c.1620)

The Green Lion / Vitriol (Théodore de Bry, for Michael Maier’s Atalanta Fugiens, 1610)

Léon Cogniet, Scenes of July 1830 (Les Trois Glorieuses)

Photogrammetry key chart for survey flyovers of the Mississippi Delta


Nine-lens aerial photography setup, early 1930s (NOAA)


John Dee’s Monas Hieroglyphica (in ascending glory)