EditorialCuirassier Armor, ca. 1610?30, Milan; Brescia, Lombardy, Italian, Milan or Brescia, Steel, gold, leather, textile, H. as mounted 54 in. (137.2 cm); Wt. 86 lb. 8 oz. (39.24 kg), Armor for Man, The construction and build of this armor are typical of a cu...
EditorialFeline Bottle, 12th?15th century, Peru, Chim?, Ceramic, Overall: 11 1/8 in. (28.26 cm), Ceramics-Containers, As early as the beginning of the second millennium B.C., the peoples in northern Peru produced ceramics of remarkable technical refinement, aes...
EditorialModels which served in Benjamin Franklin's lightening rod experiments: bottle (second from right) is a stencil plate; the other three objects were part of the " storm-house" demonstration to show the efficiency of the lightening rod.
Editorial'Diagram of the causes of mortality in the army in the east'. In her seminal 'rose diagram', Florence Nightingale demonstrated that far more soldiers died from preventable epidemic diseases (blue) than from wounds inflicted on the battlefield (red) or ...
EditorialArete (" Efficiency"), one of the four allegories of Virtue. Roman copy of a Greek original, second half 2nd CE. Found in front of the Celsus Library, Ephesus. Marble, H: 198,5 cm Inv. I 852.
EditorialArete (" Efficiency"), one of the four allegories of Virtue. Roman copy of a Greek original, second half 2nd CE. Found in front of the Celsus Library, Ephesus. Marble, H: 198,5 cm Inv. I 852.
EditorialCuirassier Armor, ca. 1610?30, Milan; Brescia, Lombardy, Italian, Milan or Brescia, Steel, gold, leather, textile, H. as mounted 54 in. (137.2 cm); Wt. 86 lb. 8 oz. (39.24 kg), Armor for Man, The construction and build of this armor are typical of a cu...
EditorialBall-headed Club, late 18th century, United States, Western Great Lakes, Wood, metal, H. 18 1/2 x W. 6 in. (47 x 15.2 cm), Wood-Sculpture, At once elegant and deadly, ball-headed clubs combine refinement of form with a fearsome efficiency of function. ...
Editorial?? ??????, Tripod Cooking Vessel (Li), Shang dynasty (ca. 1600?1046 B.C.), 12th?11th century B.C., China, Earthenware with comb striations, H. 7 7/8 in. (20 cm), Ceramics, The tri-lobed shape and combed ridges of this cooking pot increased heating effi...
EditorialFeline Bottle, 12th?15th century, Peru, Chim?, Ceramic, Overall: 11 1/8 in. (28.26 cm), Ceramics-Containers, As early as the beginning of the second millennium B.C., the peoples in northern Peru produced ceramics of remarkable technical refinement, aes...
EditorialModels which served in Benjamin Franklin's lightening rod experiments: bottle (second from right) is a stencil plate; the other three objects were part of the " storm-house" demonstration to show the efficiency of the lightening rod.
EditorialArete (" Efficiency"), one of the four allegories of Virtue. Roman copy of a Greek original, second half 2nd CE. Found in front of the Celsus Library, Ephesus. Marble, H: 198,5 cm Inv. I 852.