In the vast history of humans and their disposing of the dead, of the great rituals and spectacular belief systems pertaining to the body and the non-corporeal bits and flavorings within, there is ...

Well, there's busy and then there's busy. Somehow Dickens and Shakespeare managed to produce dozens of superb works--enough for one great work by dozens of other writers--all in a surprisingly short ...

“Atomic Bomb” appeared in print for the first time thirty years before there was one. It appeared in H.G. Wells' The World Set Free, written in 1913 and published in 1914, evidently before the ...

This poem, which appeared in the London Punch in October 1862, three years after the first edition of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, addresses the confrontation between Richard Owen and Thomas ...

Today is a much-loved day for Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, born within a few hours of one another 200 years ago on this day in 1809. I’m not so sure that we should celebrate them on their birth ...

London, Edinburgh, and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and Journal of Science, Volume IV, Fifth Series, July-December 1877. Very nice copy, half-calf with raised bands and tips. 3 plates, vii, 476pp.

A Daily History of Holes, Dots, Lines, Science, History, Math, Physics, Art, the Unintentional Absurd, Architecture, Maps, Data Visualization, Blank and Missing ...

There are different types of mystery as any quick look at Medieval legacies will tell you. Some are mysterious mysteries never meant to be understood outside of obliqueness given their allegorically ...

Rare, scarce, interesting, and unusual books for sale, mostly in the history of physics, math, and technology. The bookstore site is part of a larger daily blog for the History of Holes, Dots, Lines, ...

Report on Special Examination of the Accounts and Methods of the Office of Coroner in the City of New York...Office of the Commissioner of Accounts, City of New York; Leonard M. Wallstein, ...

This is a very Grand-Central_terminal-centric image of NYC--and rightfully so, being one of the great buildings of Manhattan. These images come from a promotional The Gateway to a Continent, published ...