EditorialPetrified and fossil leaves found near Rochesauve, southern France, 1807. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher a...
EditorialA slice of petrified dawn redwood from Oregon that has turned to stone after being buried for millions of years at the American Museum of Natural History in New York on April 30, 2021. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
EditorialThe National Assembly Petrified _________/The National Assembly Revivified, James Gillray, 17571815, British, 1792, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 16 1/8 x 11 1/2in. (41 x 29.2cm).
EditorialPetrified Lemon, Petrified lemon, 3rd12th century, Found Egypt, Thebes, Lemon, H. 3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm), W. 1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm), D. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm), Wt. 1.17 oz. (33.2 g), Miscellaneous.
EditorialPetrified Lemon, Petrified lemon, 3rd12th century, Found Egypt, Thebes, Lemon, H. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm), W. 2 in. (5.1 cm), D. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm), Wt. 1.6 oz. (45.4 g), Miscellaneous.
EditorialMirror of fire Specvlvm Vrens (title on object) Twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God (series title) Duodecim Specula Deum (series title), In the foreground a fire is lit by the focal point of a mirror. In the background, examples of the use o...
EditorialA shuttered ticket window in Manhattan's theater district during the coronavirus pandemic, April 16, 2020. (David S. Allee/The New York Times)
EditorialPetrified Dorade from Oningen, Petrified Eel from the Canton of Glarus and petrified skeleton from Oninge, Classe IV, Pl. LX, Fig. 539: Dorade dans une Ardoise grise d 'Oningen, du Dioc?se de Constance, fig. 540: Partie d'une Anguille dans une ardoise ...
EditorialSasso di Malta ... Petrified Serpent, 17th century fossilized serpent teeth, tav., II, after p. 168, 1670, Agostino Scilla: La vana speculazione disingannata dal senso: lettera risponsiva circa i corpi marini, che petrificati si trovano in varii luoghi...
EditorialMirror of fire Specvlvm Vrens (title on object) Twelve mirrors with which man tries to see God (series title) Duodecim Specula Deum (series title), In the foreground a fire is lit by the focal point of a mirror. In the background, examples of the use o...
EditorialThe Bomarzo "Park of Monsters" (1551/52) was planned by Pirro Ligorio (who completed the Cathedral of St. Peter in Rome after the death of Michelangelo and built the Villa d'Este in Tivoli) on commission of Prince Pier Francesco Orsini, who was mournin...
EditorialPetrified and fossil leaves found near Rochesauve, southern France, 1807. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher a...
EditorialMetals including magnetic iron ore grit and crystals, pyrite crystal group, pyrite with petrified Ammonite fossil, markasite, bloodstone and copiapite. Chromolithograph from Dr. Aldolph Kenngott's "Mineralogy" section in Gotthilf Heinrich von Schubert'...