Stories
- Article
Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
- Article
The painter, the psychiatrist and a fashion for hysteria
A dramatic painting brings a famous event in medical history alive. But it also tells a tale about the health preoccupations of the time.
- Long read
Our complicated love affair with light
Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.
Catalogue
- Books
L'histoire des sciences en France / Académie des sciences.
Date: [1995], ©1995- Journals
Mémoires de mathématique et physique / Académie royale des sciences (France).
Date: [1750-[1786]- Journals
- Online
Histoire et mémoires de l'Académie royale des sciences, inscriptions et belles lettres de Toulouse.
Date: [1782-1843]- Books
La variolisation à l'Académie des Sciences / par Georges Salamand.
Salamand, Georges.Date: 1986- Books
Éloges des académiciens de l'Académie royale des sciences morts depuis 1666, jusqu'en 1699 / par le marquis de Condorcet, de la même Académie, & de la Société royale de Turin.
Condorcet, Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de, 1743-1794.Date: [1968]