Explorers didn't sight Antarctica until 1820. But that didn't stop centuries of imaginative geographers from boldly declaring its existence. Follow the course of Antarctic mapmaking, from ancient ...

Ground-breaking books by Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo showed what our cosmos truly looked like, inspiring artists and scientists for centuries afterwards ...

Last spring, a 23-year-old woman was driving her car through the Ontario town of Tobermory. It was unfamiliar territory for her, so she was dutifully following her GPS. Indeed, she was so intent on ...

In a sunlit gallery of the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Italy, astronomer Brad Schaefer came face to face with an ancient statue known as the Farnese Atlas. For centuries, the 7-foot marble figure ...

As the amount and complexity of scientific data increases, the need to better visualize that information becomes more important. In the new book Atlas of Science: Visualizing What We Know, author Katy ...

SCREF copy Purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, ...

It was only natural for Alexander Jones to feel thrilled when he saw a sixth-century palimpsest at the Ambrosiana library in Milan for the first time. It happened in 1984 when Jones was working on his ...