Featured on PDR in the essay “More Lively Counterfaits”: Experimental Imaging at the Birth of Modern Science

From infographics to digital renders, today’s scientists have ready access to a wide array of techniques to help visually communicate their research. It wasn’t always so. Gregorio Astengo explores the innovations employed in early issues of the Royal Society’s *Philosophical Transactions*, the world’s first scientific journal — new forms of image making which pushed the boundaries of 17th-century book printing.