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The colonist who faced the blue terror
India, 1857. In a British enclave, Katherine Bartrum watches her friend, and then her family, succumb to the deadly cholera.
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- 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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Experiments on the analysis of the heavy inflammable air / by William Austin.
Austin, William, 1754-1793.Date: [1790]- Books
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A short history of Brighthelmston : with remarks on its air, and an analysis of its waters, particularly of an uncommon mineral one long discovered, though but lately used. ... / By Anthony Relhan, M.D. ... published in 1761 - re-edited 1829.
Relhan, Anthony, 1715-1776.Date: 1829- Books
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A guide to the microscopical examination of drinking water : with an appendix on the microscopical examination of air / by J.D. MacDonald.
Date: 1883- Books
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A handy method of determining the amount of carbonic acid in air / by William Mackie.
Mackie, William.Date: 1905- Books
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On some of the constituents of the atmosphere / by J. Ferguson.
Ferguson, John, 1838-1916.Date: [1877]