Robert hooke microscope

In the 17th century, the great maritime nations were vying to solve a puzzle that had confounded philosophers for many centuries: how to determine exact positions on the Earth’s surface. And in Britai

A year in the life of the eighteenth-century naturalist

I n 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That, at least, is what the famous rhyme tells us. Memorising such dates is a common experience of being taught history – a cliché superbly lampooned by the w

The Story of Tudor Art: A History of Tudor ...

So crude was television in the beginning that the BBC took time to be convinced by John Logie Baird’s invention. Born in Helensburgh on 13 August 1888, Baird enrolled at Glasgow’s Royal Technology Col

GEORGES SEURAT, GENERALLY ACCEPTED AS THE PIONEER OF NEO-IMPRESSIONISM, once said of his distinctive technique, “Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.” He was referring to a ne