Photochrome of a glacier, Grindelwald, Switzerland, c. 1890. © Rijksmuseum

Discovery

Volume X, Number 2 | spring 2017

Homo Faber

Lewis H. Lapham

Queer Theorem

Samantha Hunt

Special Experience

Kea Krause

The Turning Sky

Susan Brind Morrow

Map

Miscellany

Voices In Time

Trading Places

c. 335 BC | Athens

First Principles

1971 | Chicago

Life on Mars?

1899 | Colorado Springs

Testing Grounds

1267 | Paris

True Colors

1665 | Cambridge

Missionary Imposition

1673 | Keokuk, IA

Tyranny of the Majority

2011 | Washington, DC

Skin Game

1934 | Harlem

Awe Inspired

1862 | Amherst, MA

Holy Smoke

1571 | Seville

Column Opinion

c. 27 BC | Rome

A Whole New World

1823 | Timisoara

Through a Looking Glass

1665 | London

Knock First

c. 80 | Antioch

Ends of the World

c. 20 | Rome

Matters of Fact

1789 | Paris

Realms of Gold

1816 | London

Seeing Is Believing

1666 | Blazing World

Trial Balloon

1783 | London

Key to the Kingdom

1911 | Yorkshire

Pleasure Principle

1802 | Somerset

Happy Accidents

1891 | Berlin

Gag Rule

1791 | Birmingham

Names in Vain

1849 | Downe

Preestablished Harmony

1918 | Berlin

Charts and Graphs

Contributors

Conversations

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