Don't tell this to the man in the moon.  From The Elements of English Grammar by George Philip Krapp, 1908.

"To enjoy is to obey."  From Brown's First Lessons in Language and Grammar, 1904.

From Crystal-Gazing and the Wonders of Clairvoyance by John Melville, 1910.

From The Common-Sense Philosophy of Spirit Or Psychology by Charles H. Foster, 1901.

Even if the Loch Ness Monster is an automaton, as Ure's Dictionary of 1846 suggests, "Does it then follow that the automaton possesses a freedom of action, a freedom of will?  Yes, we should think that it has a certain freedom of action (the freedom of will we had better leave aside because here the analogy is doubtful at present)" (I. G. Makarov, Cybernetics Today, 1984).

From Grammatical Diagrams and Analyses by Frank P. Adams, 1886.

"A new system of sword exercise for infantry" by Richard Francis Burton, 1876.

"We believe that the earth is round," from First Lessons in English by Alfred Hix Welsh, 1889.

Air, water, earth, and the sun.  From the Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, 1846.

From Bericht Über die Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft in Frankfurt am Main, 1894.

From Class-Book of Botany by Alphonso Wood, 1881.

From Cl. Galeni Pergameni Ars Medica, Quae et Ars Parva Dicitur, 1548.

Here's how to find an inverted pentagram's anus.  From The Biological Bulletin, 1922.

Note how "Hard Sky" and "Watery Sun" are two of the conditions in this weather chart from A Directory for the North Atlantic Ocean, Comprising Instructions General and Particular for its Navigation, 1918.

Geneticists have found DNA markers associated with mathematical ability.  And here's a precursor to that: Sudoku in embryo, from Die Stoffliche Grundlage der Vererbung, 1921.

You've heard of The Importance of Being Earnest.  Here's how Ernest came to be drawn more fully than some other characters.  From Biology and Man by Benjamin Gruenberg, 1944.