The World Atlas of Wine series is among the finest for ... beginning with a discussion of wine in the ancient world. After a brief overview of the life cycle of the vine, the authors discuss ...

The Greeks saw the physical world as an encircling environment (a ... is anchored in Homer and our translated understanding ...

This is partly what makes Aby Warburg’s “Bilderatlas Mnemosyne” (“Mnemosyne Atlas,” in English), an ... reproductions of art during World War I. The institute moved to London in 1933 ...

A world-first cell atlas has opened a window into the complexity of the mammalian ... The study showed that the mouse brain’s complexity varied between evolutionarily ancient deep brain structures and ...

Amsterdam was the world capital of cartographic publishing. Cellarius, a German-born schoolteacher, had written only history and architecture books before creating the Star Atlas at the suggestion ...

Geography is destiny for nations, and history the proof. The Greeks saw the physical world as an encircling environment (a word we take from the Old French viron, circuit). The Romans applied ...