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The Last Golden Summer: Ghent’s Exposition Univ...
In the spring of 1913, Ghent opened the most ambitious world's fair Belgium had ever staged — 130 hectares, up to nine and a half million visitors, and a set...
The Last Golden Summer: Ghent’s Exposition Univ...
In the spring of 1913, Ghent opened the most ambitious world's fair Belgium had ever staged — 130 hectares, up to nine and a half million visitors, and a set...
When Electricity Stopped Being Magic: John Emsl...
In 1850, John Emslie drew two plates for London publisher James Reynolds that captured an extraordinary moment: the instant when electricity and magnetism ceased to be cabinet curiosities and became...
When Electricity Stopped Being Magic: John Emsl...
In 1850, John Emslie drew two plates for London publisher James Reynolds that captured an extraordinary moment: the instant when electricity and magnetism ceased to be cabinet curiosities and became...
Gianbattista Morandi and the Art of Botanical P...
In 1744, the Italian botanist and physician Gianbattista Morandi published in Milan a work that stands among the finest achievements of Enlightenment botanical illustration: Historia Botanica Practica. Combining anatomical precision...
Gianbattista Morandi and the Art of Botanical P...
In 1744, the Italian botanist and physician Gianbattista Morandi published in Milan a work that stands among the finest achievements of Enlightenment botanical illustration: Historia Botanica Practica. Combining anatomical precision...
Scissors and Black Paper: The Mysterious Ellen ...
She is known only as Ellen W. — no surname, no biography, no portrait. And yet the album of 26 cut-paper flower compositions she created in Great Britain in 1835...
Scissors and Black Paper: The Mysterious Ellen ...
She is known only as Ellen W. — no surname, no biography, no portrait. And yet the album of 26 cut-paper flower compositions she created in Great Britain in 1835...
The Most Fantastical Fish Ever Painted: Louis R...
In 1719, a Franco-Dutch bookseller named Louis Renard published in Amsterdam what would become one of the most extraordinary — and most debated — works of natural history ever printed....
The Most Fantastical Fish Ever Painted: Louis R...
In 1719, a Franco-Dutch bookseller named Louis Renard published in Amsterdam what would become one of the most extraordinary — and most debated — works of natural history ever printed....
The Useful Plants of the New World: William Jow...
In 1811, British physician and naturalist William Jowit Titford published his Sketches towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus — fifteen hand-colored plates documenting the medicinal and economically valuable plants of the...
The Useful Plants of the New World: William Jow...
In 1811, British physician and naturalist William Jowit Titford published his Sketches towards a Hortus Botanicus Americanus — fifteen hand-colored plates documenting the medicinal and economically valuable plants of the...