<![CDATA[Early concept art for the Death Star...]]>Early concept art for the Death Star...

From a 15th-century catalogue of designs for a variety of fantastic and often impossible inventions. More here: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dreams-of-an-inventor-in-1420

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my attempt at alt text: parchment sketch of a sphere with ring going around its equator, small explosion coming out bottom shown by straight lines fanning out, bigger explosion indicated by orange colouring, more longer lines, coming out circular hole between the equator and the top. scattered tetrahedral fragments are illustrated around the sphere

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