#windscreenphenomenon

2025-06-27

The “windscreen phenomenon”, #earlymodern edition.

#histodons #windscreenphenomenon #insects #envhist

A man is riding a horse and big bugs are flying all around. This detail is from a late seventeenth-century print (the print is included as the last page of "Des Alt- und Neuen bekandten Welt-Cräyses Abbild- und Beschreibung", printed in 1694.). The post refers to the “windscreen phenomenon”, i.e. the observation that fewer insects are being splattered on car windscreens than they used to be.A man is riding a horse and big bugs are flying all around. This page is from a late seventeenth-century print (VD17 3:602942U), and seems not to be retaled to the content of the book. The post refers to the “windscreen phenomenon”, i.e. the observation that fewer insects are being splattered on car windscreens than they used to be.

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