Stories
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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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The rules and ryghte ample documentes, touchinge the vse and practise of the common almanackes which are named ephemerides : A bryefe and shorte introduction vpon the iudicial astrologie, for to prognosticate of thinges to come, by the helpe of the sayd ephemerides. With a treatise added hereunto touchinge the coniunction of the planets, in euery one of the. 12. signes and of their prognostications and reuolutions of yeres. The hole faithfully, and clerely translated into Englyshe by Humfrey Baker.
Fine, Oronce, 1494-1555Date: [1558?]]- Books
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The rules and righte ample documentes, touchinge the vse and practise of the common almanackes, which are named ephemerides : A briefe and shorte introduction vpon the iudiciall astrologie, for to prognosticate of thinges to come, by the helpe of the sayde ephemerides. With a treatise added hereunto, touchinge the coniunction of the planets, in euery one of the. 12. signes, and of their prognostications and reuolutions of yeres. The hole faithfully, and clerely translated into Englyshe by Humfrey Baker.
Fine, Oronce, 1494-1555Date: [1558?]]- Books
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The rules and righte ample documentes, touchinge the vse and practise of the common almanackes whiche are named ephemerides : a briefe and shorte introduction vpon the judiciall astrologie, for to prognosticate of thinges to come, by the helpe of the said ephemerides : vvith a treatise added herunto, touchinge the coniunction of the planetes, in euery one of the .12. signes, and of their prognostications and reuolutions of yeres / the hole faithfully, and clerely translated into Englyshe by Humfrey Baker.
Fine, Oronce, 1494-1555Date: [1570?]- Books
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Ephemerides of the celestial motions and aspects, eclipses of the luminaries &c. for XX years : beginning anno 1682 and ending an. 1701 : calculated according to art from new tables, agreeing to the most correct observations of the ablest astronomers in this mercurial age : accommodated to the meridian of ... London ... / by John Gadbury.
Gadbury, John, 1627-1704Date: 1680- Books
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Ephemerides of the celestial motions for X years : beginning anno 1672 (where the industrious Mr Wings expired) and ending an. 1681 : calculated according to art from new tables, and compared with the most correct observations of the noble Tycho, Kepler, Mr. Wright, and other approved astronomers : accomodated to the meridian of ... London : with an introduction to the use thereof / by John Gadbury.
Gadbury, John, 1627-1704Date: 1672