Copernicus
Heavenly beauty: Doppelmayr’s Atlas Coelestis
It seems something of a disservice to a work of this seriousness to say how beautiful it is, but that…
Are cancel-culture activists aware of their sinister bedfellows?
Is there a woke case to be made for freedom of expression? Jacob Mchangama certainly seems to think so. This…
Universal appeal
Yet another sign that we are living in very strange times: a pair of celebrities, their names made by TV,…
Moving heaven and earth: Galileo’s subversive spyglass
We live in an age of astronomical marvels. Last year Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft made a daring rendezvous with the comet…
