Locations of events.

Those who discuss must argue logically. Until modern times, the philosopher’s “toolbox” needed for this was the Organon by Aristotle. Royal printer Guillaume Morel presented a neatly edited version of this work in 1562.

If you think that globalisation first started with the Internet, you’re mistaken. Global trade has existed since antiquity and its development accelerated rapidly in the 19th century. This was due to the many international expositions. Today, we’ll be talking about the Columbian Exposition, held in Chicago in 1893.

Acta Eruditorum is one of the earliest scientific journals we have. Of course, the research findings it contains have long become obsolete and outdated. It is however a valuable testimony to the beginnings of our modern scientific discussion.

To this day, we still associate the horrors of the Inquisition and the brutal treatment of ‘heretics’ with Spain – forgetting that Spain’s enemies weren’t any better. They simply had better PR, which historians are only gradually starting to realise.

Not having to work, partying every night in the sparkling city, drinking and dancing as if there were no tomorrow. Doesn’t that sound good? F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel about the rich and beautiful of the 1920s shows that, unfortunately, it’s not quite as easy as that…