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The Armoured Flower: Two Centuries of Cactus Bo...
When the first cactus arrived in Europe, nobody quite knew what to make of it — leafless, armoured with spines, flowering with improbable extravagance. The European response produced, over two...
The Armoured Flower: Two Centuries of Cactus Bo...
When the first cactus arrived in Europe, nobody quite knew what to make of it — leafless, armoured with spines, flowering with improbable extravagance. The European response produced, over two...
San Francisco on Foot: A Flâneur's Guide to the...
There are cities you visit and cities you walk. San Francisco is emphatically the latter — a city that rewards the slow traveller who puts away the map, follows the...
San Francisco on Foot: A Flâneur's Guide to the...
There are cities you visit and cities you walk. San Francisco is emphatically the latter — a city that rewards the slow traveller who puts away the map, follows the...
Shells, Scales, and Watercolour: Kenelm Henry D...
Before photography and chromolithography, the watercolour manuscript occupied a unique position in the history of science — at once a scientific document and a work of art. Among the most...
Shells, Scales, and Watercolour: Kenelm Henry D...
Before photography and chromolithography, the watercolour manuscript occupied a unique position in the history of science — at once a scientific document and a work of art. Among the most...
The Art of the Shadow: Silhouette Portraiture a...
Before photography, a painted portrait was a luxury available only to the wealthy. Then, in the mid-eighteenth century, a new form emerged that needed only a candle, a steady hand,...
The Art of the Shadow: Silhouette Portraiture a...
Before photography, a painted portrait was a luxury available only to the wealthy. Then, in the mid-eighteenth century, a new form emerged that needed only a candle, a steady hand,...
Can You Read the Bottom Line? The Story of Herm...
Walk into any optometrist's office in the world and you will find it: a white chart, rows of black letters descending from a large E to a barely legible bottom...
Can You Read the Bottom Line? The Story of Herm...
Walk into any optometrist's office in the world and you will find it: a white chart, rows of black letters descending from a large E to a barely legible bottom...
The Wandtafeln: Gottlieb von Koch and the Botan...
In the classrooms of Wilhelmine Germany, the walls spoke. The Wandtafeln — botanical wall charts — were the visual technology of scientific education: large, precise, and beautiful, designed to make...
The Wandtafeln: Gottlieb von Koch and the Botan...
In the classrooms of Wilhelmine Germany, the walls spoke. The Wandtafeln — botanical wall charts — were the visual technology of scientific education: large, precise, and beautiful, designed to make...