Day 1,359: antiquity

In the 17th century microscopes and telescopes opened up new vistas of discovery and encouraged researchers to favour their own observations over the received wisdom of antiquity, while the introduction of scientific journals gave them new ways to share and publicise their findings.

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Artwork of the day 
Terror Antiquus
Leon Bakst
Date: 1908
Style: Art Nouveau (Modern)
Genre: symbolic painting
Media: oil, canvas
Location: Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Dimensions: 250 x 270 cm

Word of the day 
antiquity: the distant past (= a long time ago), especially before the sixth century

Quote of the day
“Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.”

― Niccolò Machiavelli