Tag: 1700s

In 1710, workers excavating beneath the choir of Notre-Dame de Paris found a stone pillar broken into blocks, reused as rubble in a late...

You see the world before you enter it. Framed dead centre in the doorway, the oval map on the far wall presents the entire...

In the Alpine regions of Austria, Bavaria, and South Tyrol, the early days of December were never gentle. As the long nights settled in...

An Account of GIANTS, from a Memorial lately read before the Academy of Sciences at Rouen, by M. Le Cat. THE Bible mentions several races...

Most people today have never heard of the Great Comet of 1744. That alone is unusual. It was one of the brightest celestial events...