This image from 1651 caused consternation after it was thought it predicted the Great Fire of 1666.

Source: The internet is a place of theft. And I was a notorious thief here. Shame on me, but I will make amends if I ever have EEBO access again. But life out here is hard for the unaffiliated academic.

First posted on Twitter for #WoodcutWednesday on 24 June 2015: the original tweet.

Here endeth this leaf of the Commonplace Book, which ſheweth This image from 1651 caused consternation after it was thought it…, the work of its first makers and not of this preſs; only the caption is the Senſeſhaper’s. Copied into this book the twenty-fourth day of June, 2015. Finis.

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