Stories
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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 prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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The search of causes : Containing a theophysicall inuestigation of the possiblitie of transmutatorie alchemie. By Timothie Willis, apprentise in phisicke.
Willis, TimothyDate: 1616- Books
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The works of Geber, the most famous Arabian prince and philosopher / faithfully Englished by Richard Russel.
Jābir ibn ḤayyānDate: 1678- Books
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The works of Geber : the most famous Arabian prince and philosopher / faithfully Englished by R.R. a lover of chymistry.
Jābir ibn ḤayyānDate: MDCLXXVIII [1678]- Books
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Prologue to the reviv'd alchemist.
Date: [1660]- Books
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The marrow of alchemy : being an experimental treatise, discovering the secret and most hidden mystery of the philosophers elixer. The second part. Containing three books, elucidating the practique of the art; in which the art is so plainly disclosed, as never any before did, for the benefit of young practitioners, and the convincing those who are in errors labyrinth. / By Eirenæus Philoponos Philalethes.
Starkey, George, 1627-1665Date: 1655