Johannes Kepler’s Somnium (The Dream) is an extraordinary early narrative that combines the idea of a journey...
When Johannes Kepler set out to explain the motions of the planets, he found himself confronting an...
Denis Diderot (1713–1784) stands out in Enlightenment thought not only for his role in the Encyclopédie project,...
A potato in a scientist’s laboratory may seem an unlikely sight today. Yet in the late nineteenth...
Few anecdotes in the history of science are as instantly recognisable as the story of Isaac Newton...
Pablo Picasso stands among the most influential figures in the history of modern art. Painted in 1907,...
Rembrandt van Rijn completed The Night Watch in 1642. Today, the painting is regarded as one of...
Peter Paul Rubens (1577–1640) stands among the most important artists in the history of European Baroque painting....
Who Was Telipinu? Telipinu was an important deity in the religious tradition of the Hittites and ancient Anatolia....
