Origins & Futures
art collection

01 / Look inside

Previews

Preview images are pages and images from the product. Credits are printed on each item and listed in the Credits section below.

Not sure yet? Download the free sample (3 full-resolution images with their caption cards, 24 MB ZIP). No email required.

02 / What it is

Real objects, old imaginings,
and new art, clearly labeled

13 of the images are public-domain or CC0 works: a Babylonian sky-omen tablet photographed by The Met, flood paintings by Doré, John Martin and Edward Hicks, Piero and Rembrandt, Haeckel’s radiolarians, Apollo 8’s Earthrise, the Apollo 17 Blue Marble, and Hubble and Webb telescope images. The other 5 are original pieces we made with code, including two data graphics: 4.54 billion years of Earth history on one spiral, and the orbit a “3,600-year planet” would actually need.

Every image has a caption card with a label:

• EVIDENCE: a real object or a real photograph (tablet, Apollo photos, telescope images. The telescope colors are assigned by the imaging teams, and the card says so).
• ILLUSTRATION · BASED ON OBSERVATION: drawn from real specimens (Haeckel).
• ARTWORK · NOT EVIDENCE: an artist’s imagining. A 19th-century flood painting tells you about the 19th century, not about the flood.
• ORIGINAL ART / DATA GRAPHIC (NO AI): made by us.

Being upfront about what you’re paying for: the public-domain images are free at their sources, and each card links to its source. The $12 pays for finding and checking them, careful restoration, the research captions and caption cards, the 5 originals, and the packaging. It also helps fund the free Discover Truth investigation.

03 / What's inside

What you get

• 18 images as JPEG (sRGB), 4,000–8,000 px on the long edge. Single landscape or portrait images, with no separate phone or desktop crops in this version.
• 18 caption cards (2400×1600) with the title, who made it and when, what it shows, what it is and isn’t evidence of, the rights, and a source link.
• A caption sheet (PDF) and CAPTIONS.csv listing every credit, license, source URL, what we did to restore it, and print size.
• A contact sheet so you can see all 18 at a glance.
• LICENSE.txt for personal use: wallpapers, prints for your own home, office or classroom wall at any size, school work, and non-commercial talks with credit. You may not resell or redistribute the collection, or put our 5 originals on products you sell.

04 / How these were made

AI-use disclosure

None of the 18 images was made with AI image generation.

• Images 1–13 are public-domain or CC0 works downloaded from Wikimedia Commons, with their license details recorded. They’re lightly restored: luminance-only levels, a mild sharpen on engravings, and scan margins and book edges cropped off. The NASA, Hubble, Webb and Met images are unaltered apart from resizing. One image (the Flammarion engraving) is upscaled by about 1.1×. Every change is listed in the caption sheet.
• Images 14–18 are original artworks drawn with code (Python and cairo), two of them data graphics. No AI image tools were used.
• Captions were researched and drafted with AI assistance (Grok Bot), then checked against the sources linked on each card. If you spot an error, tell us. It goes in our public corrections log.

05 / All 18 images

Full list and credits

NASA doesn’t endorse this product. Credits are kept as the agencies request.

06 / Questions

FAQ

07 / Refunds

Refund policy

If it isn't useful to you, email christaylor17+shop@gmail.com within 30 days of purchase with the email you bought with, and we'll refund you in full. No questions asked, and you don't need to delete anything. Refunds go back to the original payment method, usually within 5–10 business days for cards. If you think something in the files is wrong, please tell us. That goes into our public corrections log, and updated versions are free to past buyers.

08 / Credits

Credits

Curated, restored and captioned by Discover Truth / Society of Explorers (Christopher Taylor, with AI assistance for caption research). Original art (images 14–18) made with code. No AI image generation. Archive works are credited to their makers and holding institutions in the table above and on each caption card: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (CC0), NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, the Yale Center for British Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, The National Gallery (London), the New-York Historical Society and the Library of Congress, via Wikimedia Commons.

09 / About

About the shop

• Who makes it. Discover Truth is made by Christopher Taylor, a sole proprietor publishing as Society of Explorers / Discover Truth. It’s a small independent project: one person, with AI assistance for research and drafting.
• What’s for sale. Two digital downloads: the Origins Field Guide ($19, a 59-page PDF) and Origins & Futures ($12, 18 high-resolution images in a ZIP). Each has a free sample on its page. There are no physical items and no subscriptions.
• Sources, rights and AI. Every archive image is public domain, CC0 or openly licensed (CC BY), and is credited with its source and license. The diagrams and original art are our own work (© 2026 Discover Truth / Society of Explorers). No AI-generated images. The text is researched and drafted with AI assistance, then checked against the cited sources. Anything we haven’t checked yet is marked as unverified.
• Checkout and delivery. Payhip handles checkout, payment and delivery. Your download link appears as soon as you pay and is also emailed to you. Updated editions are free to past buyers.
• Refunds and support. Full refund within 30 days, no questions asked (see the refund policy). For refunds, download problems, licensing questions or corrections, email christaylor17+shop@gmail.com.