Stories
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When the sun goes down
Despite the country’s colonial and industrial dominion, the finest minds of Victorian Britain began to fear the devastating effects of declining natural resources. Even the death of the sun.
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Why we need to decolonise the skies
Astronomer Dr Tana Joseph explores how rethinking way we look at the stars could improve our relationship with our own planet and make it a healthier place to live.
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Deciding a date for the end of the world
When will the world end? Charlotte Sleigh explores how our obsession with dates and dramatic imaginings of the end can distract us from the dangers slowly creeping up on us.
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The yogi as hermit, warrior, criminal and showman
How the modern world changed the life and reputation of the yogi.
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The moral system of Moses. By Samuel Pye, M. D. Member of the College of Physicians, London; Author of The Mosaic Theory of the Solar or Planetary System.
Pye, Samuel, -1772.Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]- Books
Evaluating the biological potential in samples returned from planetary satellites and small solar system bodies : framework for decision making / Task Group on Sample Return from Small Solar System Bodies, Space Studies Board, Commission on Physical Sciences Mathematics and Applications, National Research Council.
National Research Council (U.S.). Task Group on Sample Return from Small Solar System Bodies.Date: 1998- Books
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The description and use of the globes, and the orrery. To which is prefixed, by way of introduction, a brief account of the Solar system. By Joseph Harris, teacher of the mathematicks.
Harris, Joseph, 1704-1764.Date: M.DCCXXXVIII. [1738]- Books
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The description and use of a new portable orrery; on a most simple construction, representing in two parts-the motions, and phænomena of the planetary system; But more particularly the Motions of the Earth and Moon, round the Sun, from whence the Nature and Causes of the vicissitudes of the Seasons, Days, and Nights, Solar and Lunar Eclipses, &c. are clearly explained. To which is prefixed, A short Account of the Solar System, or the true System of the World. The second edition, enlarged, with an Account of the New discovered Planet, called the Georgium Sidus, and embellished with a new copper plate of the instrument. By William Jones, Mathematical Instrument maker.
Jones, William, 1763-1831.Date: M,DCC,LXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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An introduction to astronomy, by which the knowledge of the solar system is rendered extremely easy to youth, and those who have not studied Mathematics: containing the history and original authors of that most valuable science, with a brief description of the sun and all the planets, which constitute the Solar System, and of many beautiful Phenomena therein, as seen from different parts thereof. And also the nature o comets, (which of late are found to be Planets) and the immense Distance of the fixed Stars. All which are more particularly demonstrated by the author's copper-plate print, on a large Sheet of Imperial, price 5s. Sold by him and most of the mathematicians and printsellers in London.
Lacy, William.Date: M,DCC,LXXVII. [1777]