Before the invention of the microscope and the field of entomology emerged, Joris Hoefnagel devoted himself to the natural world.

The devil himself mowed a perfect crop circle in 1678. During the public's heightened fascination in crop circles that took place in the 1980s and '90s, researchers found a fascinating old pamphlet ...

A Child From 17th-Century Europe Might Have Rewritten the History of Smallpox The deadly scourge goes back for centuries, but how many?