Imagining the Dinosaurs: How art, science combined to bring a lost world to life

Welcome to Looking Through the Past! At its heart, this is a project in which I find a bunch of cool stuff every week and share it with you. It takes hours of research and writing to produce. If you’re new here, click the button below to subscribe. If you’re already a free subscriber who appreciates getting a bunch of cool stuff in your inbox every week, please consider a paid subscription. Robert Plot was a distinguished scholar. Nicknamed “the learned Dr. Plot,” he was one of the most significant figures of the British scientific revolution. He established himself as an early secretary of the Royal Society of London, hobnobbing with luminaries like Robert Hooke, Edmund Halley, John Locke, and Isaac Newton. He then became the director of the Ashmolean Museum in London, the first public museum in the country. Like many of his fellow Renaissance men, he studied almost everything, including chemistry, archaeology, medicine, and biology. That’s why it’s a shame that his name will always ... Read full article.