EditorialJANUARY. The heathen English called this month " Wolf-monath," because the wolves were then most ravenous. It was also called " Aefter-Yula," that is, After-Christmas. In the woodcut, four oxen are laboriously drawing the plough. At that time they did ...
EditorialGentlemen geologists laboriously search for minerals in a river. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs, Augsburg, 1828.
Editorial???, Buffalo, Shang dynasty (ca. 1600?1046 B.C.), 13th?11th century B.C., China, Jade (nephrite), H. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); L. 2 1/2 in. (6.5 cm), Jade, Objects made of jade are thought to have played a ceremonial role in many Late Neolithic cultures. Har...
EditorialGentlemen geologists laboriously search for minerals in a river. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Unterhaltungen aus der Naturgeschichte: Des Mineralreichs, Augsburg, 1828.
EditorialJANUARY. The heathen English called this month " Wolf-monath," because the wolves were then most ravenous. It was also called " Aefter-Yula," that is, After-Christmas. In the woodcut, four oxen are laboriously drawing the plough. At that time they did ...