**Philipp Blom *is a historian and writer who lives in Vienna. He is the author of numerous works including Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present *.

**Philipp Blom *is a historian and writer who lives in Vienna. He is the author of numerous works including Nature's Mutiny: How the Little Ice Age of the Long Seventeenth Century Transformed the West and Shaped the Present *.