Stories
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Sex in graphic novels
Sex and sexuality have long been explored in the history of the graphic novel.
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Devilry and doom in 1666
Disastrous events and a significant combination of numbers signalled the end – or perhaps a new beginning – in 1666. But for some, this feverish period fuelled unprecedented inventiveness and development.
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Deciding a date for the end of the world
When will the world end? Charlotte Sleigh explores how our obsession with dates and dramatic imaginings of the end can distract us from the dangers slowly creeping up on us.
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When the sun goes down
Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.
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Private devotion and a brief explication of the Ten Commandments. By Edward Bernard, D. D. late Astronomy Professor in the University of Oxford.
Bernard, Edward, 1638-1696.Date: [1707]- Books
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A dissertation on the knowledge of the ancients, in Astronomy and Optical Instruments; on the Physical Causes of the Earth's Diurnal and Annual Motions; on the Distances of the Planets from the Sun, and on its Magnitude. Wherein is demonstrated, that the composition of a projectile and gravitating force, cannot account for the motions of the planets; and that their Distances, and the Magnitude of the Sun, cannot be by much so great as generally esteemed. By J. Rogers, M.D.
Rogers, John, M.D.Date: M.DCC.LV. [1755]- Books
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The gentleman and lady's palladium, for the year of our Lord, 1762. Containing, (besides what is annual and usual) Perpetual Tables for Old and New Style. A New Method of determining the Longitude from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. An Account of the late Transit of Venus over the Sun. With the Dimensions of the Solar System. The most universal, easy, and methodical Solution of the Keplerian Problem. New Improvements in Astronomy and Navigation. The fourteenth number published. By the author of the Royal astronomer and navigator.
Heath, Robert, -1779.Date: M.DCC.LXII. [1762]- Books
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Hydrostatical and pneumatical lectures by Roger Cotes A. M. Late Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge: Published with notes by his successor Robert Smith LL. D. Master of Mechanicks to His Majesty.
Cotes, Roger, 1682-1716.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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A compleat system of opticks in four books, viz. A popular, a mathematical, a mechanical, and a philosophical treatise. To which are added remarks upon the whole. By Robert Smith LL. D. Professor of Astronomy and Experimental Philosophy at Cambridge, and Master of Mechanicks to his Majesty.
Smith, Robert, 1689-1768.Date: MDCCXXXVIII. [1738]