The Victorian fascination with natural history combined with affordable book publishing led to some comely titles in elegant binding. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto ...

We often romanticize the industrial technologies that came out of the Victorian Era, especially the clockwork and steam power associated with steampunk. But these Victorian infographics illustrate the ...

ch. 1 Measuring Native America: Early American Archaeology and the Politics of Time / Rachael Z. DeLue -- ch. 2 "All That Is Solid Melts into Air": Burne-Jones, Glaciation, and the Matter of History / ...

A Barrow alternative provision centre’s immersive Victorian-themed science event has been hailed as ‘an incredible success’ by its headteacher. Moorfield Learning Centre in Barrow hosted the ‘mad’ ...

Foreword / Dame Gillian Beer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett -- Part I. Strange plants : new frontiers in the natural world. 1. Victorian orchids and the forms ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In my last blog post, I introduced Matthew ...