Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Le Antichità Romane, 1756, Via Appia, left side of two page spread William Shakespeare had a soothsayer utter that immortal warning to the Roman Emperor in his more »
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Portrait of William Herschel Astronomer Sir Frederick William Herschel on March 13, 1781 discovered the planet Uranus.He also later in his career discovered infrared radiation while testing telescope filters. His more »
Journal des dames et des modes, 1914, Pl. 183: Costumes Parisiens. Petite robe de taffetas pour l'apres-midi, Illustration (plate 183) by Gerda Wegener (1885-1940) Artist Gerda Wegener is best known for more »
Originally published on the Collections Search Center (SIRIS Smithsonian Institution Research Information System) blog . . . This has been a winter to remember in the Washington, D.C. region. Early February more »
On March 7, 1876 the telephone patent was granted to Alexander Graham Bell. It's clear from the trade catalogue below that it didn't take too long for folks to get more than more »
Leonardo da Vinci diagrammed one of the first parachutes designed in the late 15th century. Since Leonardo da Vinci was a well-known polymath, artist, and engineer, many reference questions about him have come to more »
As part of the Libraries' two-day symposium, “The Era of Experiments and the Age of Wonder: Scientific Expansion in the 17th – 19th Centuries” today and tomorrow, March 5 British historian more »