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 ...

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 ...

This map of the wounded man was a very popular, much reproduced image, seeing publication in many works since it first appeared in Johannes de Ketham's Fasciculus Medicinae, printed in the year ...

What's the dealing with indigo—the missing “I” in ROYGBV—anyway? And what about cyan? And what about those blocks of colors at the bottom, at this time in print history waiting for the appearance of ...

All you really need on this structure to complete its Brutalist International Style is a little swastika on the top. Seriously, though, the 170'-tall building is located at the pithead of a mine ...

Here's a story 1 from 1930 that seems to have it all in a series of interesting and reaching ideas: the destruction of all matter, an all-powerful equation on atomic energy, a mention of Einstein, the ...

Yesterday I wrote a post about Robert Oppenheimer's 1945 Congressional testimony on the economics of using atomic bombs over conventional bombs. In an earlier section of the same volume 1 publishing ...

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, ...

I found this concentrated view of a concentrated house in a non-concentrated area that would become a super-concentrated locale. The tiny concentrated house with the tiny fence was situated about 1000 ...

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 ...

Years ago I wrote short post here on the influence of eyesight and modern art, something along the lines of Impressionism owing itself to artists with poor/uncorrected vision. It was along the lines ...