Featured on PDR in the collection Fantastic Planet: The Microscopy Album of Marinus Pieter Filbri (1887–88)

Toward the beginning of this album of photographs belonging to Marinus Pieter Filbri, there is a series of shots of the phases of the moon; closing it out, a glimpse through the gauze of an insect’s wing, magnified eighty times its normal size. Intentionally or not, this juxtaposition draws a visual parallel between the unimaginable scale of celestial objects and the invisibly small realm of the microscopic, as if to suggest that both, in the end, are equally alien.