Stories
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Aphasia and drawing elephants
When Thomas Parkinson investigated the history of “speech science”, he discovered an unexpected link between empire, elephants and aphasia.
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Duelling doctors
An enduring enthusiasm for 18th-century gentlemen to defend their ‘honour’ by duelling placed doctors in a delicate position. Specially when they faced being shot themselves.
- 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
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Introductory address delivered before the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art / by Henry W. Acland.
Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.Date: 1880
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Introductory address delivered before the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art / by Henry W. Acland.
Acland, Henry W. (Henry Wentworth), 1815-1900.Date: 1880
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A discourse on hospitals, past and present : delivered at the Bristol Institution for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, March the 17th, 1862 / by Samuel Martyn.
Martyn, Samuel, 1828-1876.Date: 1862- Books
The liberal art of science : agenda for action the report of the Project on Liberal Education and the Sciences.
Project on Liberal Education and the Sciences (American Association for the Advancement of Science)Date: [1990], ©1990- Books
The Marine Biological Association 1884-1984 : one hundred years of marine research / by A.J. Southward and E.K. Roberts.
Southward, A. J.Date: 1984