In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics.

Remnants discovered of a train station built in the late 19th century in the southwest Japan city of Kitakyushu, originally slated to be pr･･･ ...

Context: The photo was part of a set of late 19th century magic lantern (slide projector) images depicting staged scenes from ...

In the late 19th century, two lions unleashed terror on the workers tasked with the construction of the Kenya-Uganda railway ...

Loudon is one of the few art collectors to seriously branch out into historically important life sciences illustrations and ...

In the late 19th century, Georg Brandes made several trips to Poland. Encounters there with Russification, censorship and political oppression made the influential Danish writer fall in love with the ...