Aquarium of Vulcan

The oak tree is featured in religion, literature and art as diverse as Greek mythology, the Judaic Old Testament, Roman literature, fairy-ta...

Elephants are mentioned in each of Doctor Thomas Browne's major literary works. A little-known notebook description highlights his zoolo...

                                                            Thomas Browne's short tract  On Dreams is exemplary of the seventeen...

'In seventy or eighty years a Man may have a deep Gust of the World, Know what it is, what it can afford, and what ’tis to have...