In the late 19th century, scientists were made into heroes. Science fiction novels such as H G Wells's The Time Machine and science textbooks such as Oliver Lodge's Pioneers of Science helped create ...

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 / ...

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 ...

News that the BBC has axed this Victorian drama has saddened many who love its attention to factual detail and period look: audiences can learn a lot about 19th century science and medicine by ...

After 25 years of collecting contemporary art, George Loudon’s eye was caught by a display of 19th-century glass flowers at Harvard University. From those models by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, he ...

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 ...

Science and Christmas may not seem like obvious bedfellows. Sure, they might meet on the fringes of the regular festivities – at Robin Ince's annual secular show Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless ...