Galileo and other troublemakers aside, science and religion didn’t have such a complete falling out until the 19th century. It was roughly 200 years ago when researchers started regularly digging up ...

Image: 5 3/8 x 8 1/4 in. (13.7 x 20.9 cm) : 6 3/8 x 9 1/8 in. (16 x 23 cm) ...

Jean Baptiste Marc Bourgery and Nicholas Henri Jacob, ‘Iconografia d’anatomia chirurgica e di medicina operatoria,’ (1841), Florence. Ligature of an artery in the inguinal region, using sutures and a ...

In 1896, Bombay (now Mumbai) battled an outbreak of bubonic plague. For many months, life in the Indian city was defined by quarantines, travel restrictions, emergency hospitals and ongoing inequality ...

We live in a golden age of astrophotography, with a feast of jaw-dropping images from the farthest reaches of space crossing our news feeds on a daily basis. But sometimes it’s good to revisit the ...

Charles Dana Gibson’s archetype became the original American “it girl” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and helped transform fashion and beauty A Gibson girl illustration for Life magazine ...

Etienne Léopold Trouvelot spent hours peering at planets, star clusters, and solar eruptions through a telescope with a grid etched into its glass eyepiece. Born in France in 1827, Trouvelot is most ...