Stories
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A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Navigating in a connected world
Alex Lee ponders the promising ideas, stalled projects and pricey gadgets that aim to help visually impaired people get out and about. But it seems that an actual human could be the essential ingredient.
Catalogue
- Journals
Almagest : international journal for the history of scientific ideas / Network of History of Science of Southwestern Europe.
Date: 2010-- Books
Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge / edited by Jeroen van Dongen ; associate editors Friso Hoeneveld, Abel Streefland.
Date: 2015- Videos
Science at war. Pt. 1, The laboratory of war.
Date: 1998- Books
- Online
Republic of women : rethinking the republic of letters in the seventeenth century / Carol Pal.
Pal, CarolDate: 2012- Books
Europeans on the move : studies on European migration, 1500-1800 / [edited by] Nicholas Canny.
Date: 1994