Enjoy scientific curios collected over decades
A chemist takes his cabinet of curiosities online
In Renaissance Europe, scholars and collectors built curiosity cabinets and filled them with marvels of art and natural history. Catalogs of the contents of these privately held “wonder rooms” were sometimes published to share scientific knowledge, and larger collections formed the basis for museums. Fast-forward to 2013, when chemist Ross Kelly of Boston College realized that his own collection of wondrous objects could be shared in that most 21st century mode: over the Internet.