Made from obsidian and used by him for what he called “angelic communications”, John Dee’s mirror did no small amount of damage…
Mao Zedong’s ‘Four Pests’ campaign in 1958 caused the near-extinction of the Eurasian Tree Sparrow…
Adolphe Millot’s natural history posters
Adolphe Millot (1857–1921) was the senior illustrator at Paris’s Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. He painted…