Worlds of Wonder

Tracing Historical Scientific Networks Through Crowdsourcing Lea Beiermann Whereas images going viral may seem like a phenomenon of our digital age, scientific periodicals already thrived on copying, reprinting and circulating illustrations in the nineteenth century. Publications dedicated to microscopy were particularly prone to copying and republishing illustrations. In order to trace the travels of nineteenth-century microscopy illustrations, the MUSTS research group at Maastricht University have recently launched Worlds of Wonder, an online crowdsourcing project.