Aquarium of Vulcan

The angle from which a cast of Hubert Gerhard's highly dramatic sculpture Perseus and Medusa (above) has been photographed highli...

Emperor Leopold I in costume as  Acis in La Galatea. After his continental medical studies based at Padua, Montpellier and Leyden ...

In the foreground of an illustration in  Alchemia  (1606) by Andreas Libavius (above) two lions clash, locked in fusion upon imp...

Give me leave to wonder that News of this nature should have such heavy Wings... The sad news of British rock musician and song-wri...

Two major astronomical events occurred on Friday 15th February, 2013. First a sizeable meteor exploded over Chelyabinsk, Oblast in t...