Adolphe Millot’s natural history posters
Adolphe Millot (1857–1921) was the senior illustrator at Paris’s Muséum national d’histoire naturelle. He painted…
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…
In the Spring of 1860, a flock estimated at 3.7 billion Passenger Pigeons flew over Ontario. Eleven years later…
It seems fitting that the most isolated spot on the planet should be an inhospitable, glacier-covered rock sitting smack in the path of the ‘furious fifties’ storm winds. More than 1700 and 2500 kms respectively from nearest neighbours Antarctica and Cape…
Since opening its doors to students in 1905, the Alfred Denny Zoology Museum at Sheffield University remained a…
Boulevard du Temple was taken in Paris in 1838/1839 by Louis Daguerre, inventor of the daguerrotype process – the first commercially successful photographic process. The picture’s of a street scene, but the 10+ mins exposure time captured the man getting his…
