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...publicity. The first coven in the US was started by Raymond Buckland in 1963, and Wicca was firmly established in the US by 1970. Besides a number of different strains of Wicca, many other forms of Paganism began to appear, often drawing from local pre-Christian traditions, notably Heathenism (or Ásatrú) which uses Norse mythology and Druidism based on the Celts. Rather...

...publication of prints by artists from both Italy and the north, the German master Albrecht Dürer prominent among them. Venetian printers were also engaged in map-making, not least nautical maps of the main sea-routes and ports around which Venetian trade was organised. And it has been established that ‘in the course of the fifteenth century more books were printed in...

...Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/ w/ index.php?curid=7290580 Figures 6, 12, 24 and 27: The Open University Figure 7: Bernard Gagnon; CC BY-SA 3.0 Figure 8: Mohammad Vahidi; https://creativecommons.org/ licenses/ by-sa/ 4.0/ deed.en Figure 9: WolfgangRieger - Filippo Coarelli (ed.): Pompeji. Hirmer, München 2002, ISBN 3-7774-9530-1, p. 99., Public Domain,...

...public derive? ‘Friendships amongst the learned’, I suggest, captures the kind of Royal Society-based international collaboration which underpinned Anglo-Dutch and Anglo-French cutting-edge research on longitude timekeepers in the 1660s. Given such a strong sense of a collaborative environment, it is no wonder that Hooke and his colleagues believed that their research...