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Gardening is an exceedingly British pastime. Yet so many of the perennials that populate our gardens have exotic origins, sourced in the past 300 years by plant hunters who scoured the globe for treasures to bring back to our shores.
Today, insects are seen as a vital part of our ecosystem, but in the late 17th century, they were often overlooked by science. Patricia Fara tells the story of a groundbreaking lepidopterist whose research provided solace from a turbulent personal life.
For as long as people have been making discoveries and expanding the breadth of human knowledge, others have been lying about it. Maybe the hoaxer seeks
Latin may have been central to scientific taxonomy for centuries but it’s adapted well to modern influences with often amusing results, demonstrat...
This article highlights the fact that, alongside its other roles in the early modern British empire, alcohol was also an active force in imperial scientific culture in its role as medium of preservation and display.