New Old Time
The Plant That Changed the World: J. Miller, Jo...
In 1774, a botanical illustrator named J. Miller engraved the coffee plant with scientific precision for one of the great botanical publications of the Enlightenment. In 1840, John Ellis documented...
The Plant That Changed the World: J. Miller, Jo...
In 1774, a botanical illustrator named J. Miller engraved the coffee plant with scientific precision for one of the great botanical publications of the Enlightenment. In 1840, John Ellis documented...
Stone Time: Friedrich Rolle, Schubert's Naturge...
In 1886, a German paleontologist named Friedrich Rolle produced a series of chromolithograph plates of fossil specimens for Schubert's Naturgeschichte that turned the science of paleontology into something approaching art....
Stone Time: Friedrich Rolle, Schubert's Naturge...
In 1886, a German paleontologist named Friedrich Rolle produced a series of chromolithograph plates of fossil specimens for Schubert's Naturgeschichte that turned the science of paleontology into something approaching art....
The Crystal and the Classroom: Feliks Wermiński...
In 1893, a Polish naturalist named Feliks Wermiński published a series of illustrated plates for use in Polish schools — among them two extraordinary plates of mineral specimens that turned...
The Crystal and the Classroom: Feliks Wermiński...
In 1893, a Polish naturalist named Feliks Wermiński published a series of illustrated plates for use in Polish schools — among them two extraordinary plates of mineral specimens that turned...
The Brain on the Wall: Robert E. Holding, E.J. ...
In the early twentieth century, British schoolchildren learned about the brain and nervous system from large illustrated wall charts hanging in their classrooms. This is the story of those charts,...
The Brain on the Wall: Robert E. Holding, E.J. ...
In the early twentieth century, British schoolchildren learned about the brain and nervous system from large illustrated wall charts hanging in their classrooms. This is the story of those charts,...
The Blueprint and the Locomotive: R. Menzel's S...
In 1908, at the height of the steam age, a German technical illustrator named R. Menzel produced a cross-section diagram of a locomotive that became one of the defining images...
The Blueprint and the Locomotive: R. Menzel's S...
In 1908, at the height of the steam age, a German technical illustrator named R. Menzel produced a cross-section diagram of a locomotive that became one of the defining images...
Mary Orvis Marbury and the Art of the Artificia...
In 1892, a woman named Mary Orvis Marbury published a book that would become one of the foundational texts of American fly fishing: Favourite Flies and Their Histories, a comprehensive...
Mary Orvis Marbury and the Art of the Artificia...
In 1892, a woman named Mary Orvis Marbury published a book that would become one of the foundational texts of American fly fishing: Favourite Flies and Their Histories, a comprehensive...