Tag: Magellan

  • Nation & World

    Around the world in many ways

    Historian Joyce Chaplin is completing her latest book, on the history and influence of circumnavigation. For her, globalization is an old story.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Harvard probes the final frontier

    Since Harvard received its first telescope in the 1670s, its astronomers have pushed back the frontiers of knowledge about the ever-expanding, planet-rich place that is the universe.

    11 minutes