Ecology from paintings
Which scientific details are hiding in art from the past?
A new study looked at old landscape paintings by Asher Durand to learn more about the history of forests.
It’s not the first time paintings have been used to draw conclusions about climate or natural events in the past. For example, in 2007 scientists studied J.M.W. Turner’s sunsets to learn about volcanic eruptions. But the problem…
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