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Isochronic Maps (resobscura.blogspot.com)
2 points by simonebrunozzi on Sept 22, 2023 | past
Seven Weeks to Venice: History Through Isochronic Maps (resobscura.blogspot.com)
2 points by frogulis on Sept 19, 2023 | past
The Alchemy of Madness: Understanding a Seventeenth-Century “Brain Scan” (2015) (resobscura.blogspot.com)
30 points by benbreen on Dec 23, 2021 | past
Magic in Panama, 1681 (2011) (resobscura.blogspot.com)
13 points by benbreen on Jan 3, 2020 | past | 1 comment
1950s Smart Homes and the Longevity of Design (resobscura.blogspot.com)
78 points by benbreen on Dec 13, 2019 | past | 35 comments
From Quacks to Quaaludes: Three Centuries of Drug Advertising (2012) (resobscura.blogspot.com)
28 points by benbreen on Dec 5, 2019 | past | 3 comments
Early Modern Drugs and Medicinal Cannibalism (2012) (resobscura.blogspot.com)
22 points by benbreen on Nov 26, 2019 | past | 8 comments
Early Chinese World Maps (2010) (resobscura.blogspot.com)
112 points by benbreen on Nov 24, 2019 | past | 26 comments
Enlightenment-Era Ghosts and the History of Technology (resobscura.blogspot.com)
17 points by benbreen on Oct 30, 2019 | past
Seventeenth-century Europeans ate mummies (2015) (resobscura.blogspot.com)
25 points by benbreen on Oct 22, 2019 | past | 10 comments
The Most Wonderful Map in the World: Urbano Monte's Planisphere of 1587 (resobscura.blogspot.com)
122 points by benbreen on March 29, 2019 | past | 24 comments
Seven Weeks to Venice: History Through Isochronic Maps (resobscura.blogspot.com)
72 points by benbreen on Oct 26, 2018 | past | 1 comment
The Alchemy of Madness: Understanding a Seventeenth-Century “Brain Scan” (2015) (resobscura.blogspot.com)
10 points by benbreen on Aug 28, 2018 | past
Opium or Cucumber? Debunking a Myth About Sumerian Drugs (resobscura.blogspot.com)
63 points by benbreen on Aug 23, 2018 | past | 11 comments
When California Was the Bear Republic (resobscura.blogspot.com)
79 points by benbreen on July 15, 2018 | past | 77 comments
The Art of Fooling the Eye (2011) (resobscura.blogspot.com)
56 points by prismatic on June 18, 2018 | past | 4 comments
A Medieval Emperor's Natural Language Experiment (resobscura.blogspot.com)
16 points by benbreen on May 23, 2018 | past | 13 comments
Happy Lupercalia (2011) (resobscura.blogspot.com)
8 points by benbreen on Feb 14, 2018 | past | 4 comments
Early Modern Globalization and Exotic Animals (2011) (resobscura.blogspot.com)
5 points by benbreen on Nov 28, 2017 | past
What Did 17th Century Food Taste Like? (resobscura.blogspot.com)
71 points by benbreen on Nov 12, 2017 | past | 54 comments
Renaissance Imitations of Arabic Script (2010) (resobscura.blogspot.com)
16 points by benbreen on Oct 12, 2017 | past
Nassim Nicholas Taleb vs. Historians (resobscura.blogspot.com)
4 points by benbreen on Sept 22, 2017 | past
Urine, Phosphorus, and the Philosopher's Stone (resobscura.blogspot.com)
29 points by benbreen on June 30, 2017 | past | 2 comments
Urine, Phosphorus, and the Philosopher's Stone (resobscura.blogspot.com)
1 point by benbreen on June 26, 2017 | past
Why Are There So Many 17th Century Paintings of Monkeys Getting Drunk? (resobscura.blogspot.com)
186 points by benbreen on May 4, 2017 | past | 41 comments
[dupe] The Women’s Petition Against Coffee of 1674 (resobscura.blogspot.com)
2 points by hoffmannesque on April 13, 2017 | past | 1 comment
On the Women’s Petition Against Coffee of 1674 (resobscura.blogspot.com)
137 points by benbreen on April 8, 2017 | past | 19 comments
The Art of Fooling the Eye (resobscura.blogspot.com)
2 points by ljf on June 4, 2016 | past
Images of a New World: The Watercolors of John White (2012) (resobscura.blogspot.com)
1 point by benbreen on May 23, 2016 | past
How to Write the History of Science? (resobscura.blogspot.com)
40 points by benbreen on Feb 3, 2016 | past | 15 comments

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