We often romanticize the industrial technologies that came out of the Victorian Era, especially the clockwork and steam power associated with steampunk. But these Victorian infographics illustrate the ...

The Victorian fascination with natural history combined with affordable book publishing led to some comely titles in elegant binding. The Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library at the University of Toronto ...

After 25 years of collecting contemporary art, George Loudon’s eye was caught by a display of 19th-century glass flowers at Harvard University. From those models by Leopold and Rudolf Blaschka, he ...

ch. 1 Measuring Native America: Early American Archaeology and the Politics of Time / Rachael Z. DeLue -- ch. 2 "All That Is Solid Melts into Air": Burne-Jones, Glaciation, and the Matter of History / ...

Foreword / Dame Gillian Beer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Lara Karpenko and Shalyn Claggett -- Part I. Strange plants : new frontiers in the natural world. 1. Victorian orchids and the forms ...