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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Disputatio physica, de chylificatione ... / praeside Johann-Ludovico Mögling ... publicae disquisitioni submittit Johannes Jacobus Funck, Ulmensis.
Funck, Johann JakobDate: M. DC. LXIV. [1664]- Books
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The anatomical history of Thomas Bartholinus, doctor and kings professor, concerning the lacteal veins of the thorax, observ'd by him lately in man and beast : publickly proposed by Michael Lyserus answering.
Bartholin, Thomas, 1616-1680Date: 1653- Books
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The anatomy of an horse : Containing an exact and full description of the frame, situation and connexion of all his parts, (with their actions and uses) exprest in forty-nine copper-plates. : To which is added an appendix, containing two discourses: : the one, of the generation of animals, and the other, of the motion of the chyle, and the circulation of the bloud / by Andrew Snape, jun. farrier to His Majesty.
Snape, Andrew, 1644-Date: 1686- Books
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New anatomical experiments of John Pecquet of Deip : By which the hitherto unknown receptacle of the chyle, and the transmission from thence to the subclavial veins by the now discovered lacteal chanels of the thorax, is plainly made appear in brutes. As also an anatomical dissertation of the motion of blood and chyle. Together with the further description of the same lacteal chanels newly discovered in the body of man as well as brutes. Being an anatomical historie, publickly propos'd by Thomas Bartoline, Dr. and Reg. Professor both in Physick and Anatomy, to Michael Lysere, answering.
Pecquet, Jean, 1622-1674Date: 1653- Books
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Ioannis Pecqueti Diepaei Experimenta nova anatomica : quibus incognitum hactenus chyli receptaculum, & ab eo per thoracem in ramos usque subclavios vasa lactea deteguntur ; Eiusdem Dissertatio anatomica de circulatione sanguinis, et chyli motu : accedunt clarissimorum virorum perelegantes ad authorem epistolae.
Pecquet, Jean, 1622-1674.Date: M. DC. LI. [1651]