Stories
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Exceptional talent and the trouble with IQ tests
Is a high IQ really a mark of genius, or does something else explain the exceptional?
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Illuminated manuscripts, illuminating medicines
From rare bugs to exorbitantly priced plant parts, find out more about the artistic and medical uses of pigments from the past.
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- Archives and manuscripts
English Miscellany, 18th Century
Date: 1703-1786Reference: MS.8405- Pictures
A soldier in 19th-century costume (hussar?) defending the peoples of the world by spraying flies with a spray gun of Flit insecticide. Colour lithograph, 1930.
Date: [193?-?]Reference: 676494i- Books
Medici nella storia d'Italia : per una tipologia della professione medica / Giorgio Cosmacini.
Cosmacini, Giorgio.Date: 1996- Pictures
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A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.
Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.Reference: 11867i- Pictures
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La belle Espagnole, - ou - la doublure de Madame Tallien.
Gillray, James, 1756-1815Date: 25 February 1796Reference: 16855i