When the scientist gets high

Agate presents its current favorite.
Within our collections, numerous illustrations or photographs deserve to be exhibited for their aesthetic quality or originality. Today, we are climbing the Tré-la-tête glacier.

Tré-la-tête glacier, the mountain packing, 1930

This photograph was taken in 1930 over a tongue of the Tré-la-Tête glacier. It reveals the mountaineering equipment used by forest and water agents working on glaciology. The bag holder takes the photograph, as photography has been a means of study and communication since the late 1880s.

On the same subject

  • The Hundred Horse Chestnut Tree
    Chestnut trees of Mount Etna, grafted (polyparabiosis) in ancient times.
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    The Hundred Horse Chestnut Tree

    Agate shares its current favorite discovery. Today, let’s travel together to the slopes of Mount Etna in Italy to meet a remarkable natural giant: the Hundred Horse Chestnut Tree.

     

  • A bike bee
    A bike bee
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    A bike bee

    Agate presents its current favorite.
    New titles will soon join Agate's collections, books, images and magazines. One of them, C. Arnould's "Calendar of the Beekeeper" published in 1908, offers beautiful and humorous illustrations. Our favourite is this cycling bee, a mode of transport so fashionable at the beginning of the 20th century when this book was published.