“If man had not encountered dragons and hippogriffs in dreams, he might never have conceived of the atom,” wrote the American social philosopher Lewis Mumford, who died [in 1990] at age 94.
Articles with Australia
Gondwana rainforest, New South Wales, Australia • Image by Cgoodwin (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Uluru, or Ayers Rock • Photo by Vvfilippov ((CC BY-SA 4.0)
Comets, bandicoots and Dreamland
I recently returned from Australia, where I went to view Halley’s Comet. Every night we watched the comet move among the brilliant stars of the Southern Milky Way. We also experienced a wealth of terrestrial natural history.