Stories
- Interview
Inside the mind of Somewhere in Between’s curator, Laurie Britton Newell
The exhibition's curator shares her secrets.
- Article
When parenting brings a paradigm shift
There were no indications during her pregnancy that Carol Nahra’s son would have severe, life-threatening disabilities. Here she describes the stages on her journey from shock to love and beyond.
- Article
On body horror and growing up strange
A young child’s unusual feelings, reactions and assertions are routinely dismissed by adults. Find out how manga horror stories became a source of strength, and helped them trust their adult body.
- 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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On the elementary principles of nature; and the simple laws by which they are governed. Being an attempt to demonstrate their existence, and to explain their mode of action; particularly in those states, in which, they Produce the Attractions of Cohesion, Gravitation, Magnetism and Electricity; and also Fire, Light, and Water. By E. Peart, M.D.
Peart, E (Edward), 1756?-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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An essay at the mechanism of the macrocosm: or the dependance of effects upon their causes. In a new hypothesis, Accommodated to Our Modern and Experimental Philosophy. In which are solved several Phoenomena, hitherto unaccounted for; as the Cause of Gravitation, Motion, Reflexion, Refraction, &c. With a Method proposed to find out the Exact Rate that a Ship Runs, and consequently the Longitude at Sea.
Purshall, Conyers.Date: 1705- Books
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An historical and philosophical account of the barometer, or, weather-glass. Wherein The Reason and Use of that Instrument, the Theory of the Atmosphere, and the Causes of its different Gravitation, are Assigned and Explained. And A Modest Attempt from thence made towards a rational Account and probable Judgment of the Weather. By Edward Saul, A. M. Late Fellow of Magdalen-College, Oxford, and Rector of Harlaxton, Lincolnshire.
Saul, Edward, 1677-1754.Date: [1766]- Books
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Institutions of astronomical calculations: Containing, I. A new set of Solar tables for computing the sun's true place, by Mr. Tobias Mayer, who verified every element thereof by his own observations. II. A new set of lunar tables, calculated from the Theory of Universal Gravitation, of an intire new form, and the most commodious for astronomical calculations, and verified by 200 observations; from the second quarto edition at Paris, 1765, by the Late celebrated Mr. Clairaut, fellow of the Royal Academies of Sciences of Paris, London, Petersbourg, Berlin, Bologne, and Upsal. III. A general exposition or rationale of the nature, construction, and use of astronomical tables, and of the precepts of calculation in solar and lunar eclipses, with the doctrine of shadows, and their delineation on the surface of the Earth, considered both as a sphere and a spheroid; a work intirely new, illustrated with three large copper plates. Vol. III. Part I. By Benjamin Martin.
Martin, Benjamin, 1705-1782.Date: M.DCC.LXV. [1765]- Books
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A course of mechanical and experimental philosophy, consisting of Seven Parts. I. The Principles of Mechanicks, and the Force of the Simple and Compound Machines. II. The Galilean and Newtonian Philosophy. III. The Laws of Hydrostaticks, or the Effects of the Gravitation of Fluids. IV. Pneumaticks; or the peculiar Properties of the Air, and the Phaenomena depending on its Pressure and Elasticity. V. Several Miscellaneous Experiments; being an Explanation of the Engines and Inventions of Use for the Accommodation of Life, and Depending on the Effects of the Mechanical, Hydrostatical, and Pneumatical Principles, with the Engines themselves, or Draughts or Models, proper to the Occasion. VI. Opticks, Explaining the Nature of Vision, of Reflecting and Refracting Glasses, and of Light and Colours, according to Sir Isaac Newton's Theory. Vii. Astronomy; or the System of the Universe more particularly Explain'd. N. B. These Courses will be Perform'd over the Bedford Coffee-House Covent-Garden, and at the Academy in Tower-Street. By Mr. James Stirling, F. R. S. Mr. Peter Brown, Mr. William Watts, and Mr. William Deam, Mathematical Instrument-Maker, and by whom the principal Instruments of the Apparatus were made. To begin over the Bedford Coffee-House Covent-Garden. To begin at the Academy Tower-Street.
Date: Printed in the Year, 1727