Stories
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Natural eating in Jamaica and the Caribbean
Riaz Phillips is passionate about the Jamaican food he grew up with and plant-based Caribbean food he came to later, like roti, baiganee and vegan stews and curries. Here he explores the origins and surging popularity of these natural ‘health foods’.
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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 200-year search for normal people
Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.
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The child whose town rejected vaccines
Gloucester, 1896. Ethel Cromwell is taken ill at the height of Britain’s last great smallpox epidemic.
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Physico-Theology: or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from his works of Creation. Being the substance of XVI sermons Preached in St. Mary le Bow-Church, London, at the Honble Mr. Boyle's Lectures, in the Years 1711 and 1712. With large Notes, and many curious Observations By W. Derham, Rector of Upminster in Essex, and F. R. S.
Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735.Date: MDCCXVI[1714]- Books
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Physico-Theology: or, a demonstration of the being and attributes of God, from his works of creation. Being the substance of XVI sermons Preached in St. Mary le Bow-Church, London, at the Honble Mr. Boyle's Lectures, in the Years 1711 and 1712. With large Notes, and many curious Observations By W. Derham, Rector of Upminster in Essex, and F. R. S.
Derham, W. (William), 1657-1735.Date: MDCCXIV. [1714]- Books
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The religious philosopher: or, the right use of contemplating the works of the Creator. I. In the wonderful Structure of Animal Bodies, and in particular Man. II. In the no less wonderful and wise Formation of the Elements, and their various Effects upon Animal and Vegetable Bodies. And, III. In the most amazing Structure of the Heavens, with all its Furniture. Designed for the conviction of atheists and infidels. Throughout which, all the late discoveries in anatomy, philosophy, and astronomy, together with the various Experiments made use of to illustrate the same, are most copiously handled by that learned mathematician, Dr. Nieuwentyt. Translated from the original, by John Chamberlayne, Esq; F. R. S. To which is Prefix'd, A Letter to the Translator, by the Reverend J. T. Desaguliers, M.A. F.R.S. Adorn'd with Cuts.
Nieuwentyt, Bernard, 1654-1718.Date: MDCCXVIII. [1718]- Books
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The religion of nature delineated.
Wollaston, William, 1660-1724.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCXXII. [1722]- Books
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The religion of nature delineated.
Wollaston, William, 1660-1724.Date: M,DCC,XXVI. [1726]