"Scene from the last act of the ballet 'Electra, or the Last Pleaid,'" from Illustrated London News, 1849.

"Up with the sun," from an ad for Warner's Safe Yeast, c. 1890.

From Africa, Viajes y Trabajos de la Asociaeion Euskara La Exploradora, 1887.

"I had to make my getaway between two suns.  There was no other horse nor time," said Billy the Kid (The West of Billy the Kid by Frederick Nolan).  Here's what a horse of two suns looks like, from Archiv für Physiologie, 1877.

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"The eclipse of the sun" on Sept. 21, 1922, from The Queenslander.

You guessed it: the top image, of the diameter of the Sun as seen from both Mercury and Earth, lines up exactly with the Mandelbrot fractal.  The top image is from Celestial Scenery by Thomas Dick, 1838.

Here's a century from Young Folks' History of Mexico, 1883.

From Sunbeams and Other Stories by Annie Austin Flint, 1897.

"A transit of Mercury over the Sun's disk," from The Columbian Magazine, 1788.

Here's the "creation of light" from God in Nature and Revelation by J. M. Woodman, 1875.

From The Year's at the Spring, an Anthology of Recent Poetry, 1920.