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Illustrating the Machine That Makes the World: From J. G. Heck's 1851 Pictorial Archive of Nature and Science (The VQR Poetry Series) (1st Edition) by Joshua Poteat, Ted Genoways (Series Editor) Paperback, 88 Pages, Published 2009 ISBN-10: 0-8203-3414-6 / 0820334146 ISBN-13: 978-0-8203-3414-1 / 9780820334141 In this book-length series, poems with titles such as “Illustrating the theory of interference” and “Illustrating the construction of railroads” are paired with nineteenth-century engravings depicting phenomena from geology to astronomy to mechanics. Yet the poems relate to the images in an oblique |