Stories
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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Humans, animals and the sensory world
Artists and medics through the ages have made links between our discerning human senses and similar traits in animals. Discover how close we are to the earth’s other inhabitants.
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How an animation educated the army
In a 1940s cartoon intended to persuade US troops to take malaria medication, the makers pitted a clodhopping soldier against a wily mosquito. If only Private SNAFU had followed the government’s advice.
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Good animals, bad humans?
Could an animal be more evolved than a human? Victorian psychologists thought that in some cases the answer could be ‘yes’.
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Telliamed: or, discourses Between an Indian philosopher, and a French missionary, on the Diminution of the sea, the Formation of the Earth, the Origin of Men and Animals, And other Curious Subjects relating to Natural History and Philosophy. Being a Translation from the French Original of Mr. Maillet, Author of the Description of Egypt.
Maillet, Benoı̂t de, 1656-1738.Date: 1750- Books
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Philosophical essays on various subjects, viz. Space, substance, body, spirit, the Operations of the Soul in Union with the Body, Innate Ideas, perpetual Consciousness, Place and Motion of Spirits, the departing Soul, the Resurrection of the Body, the Production and Operations of Plants and Animals; with some remarks on Mr. Locke's Essay on the human understanding. To which is subjoined A brief scheme of ontology, or the Science of Being in general with its Affections. By I. W.
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Date: MDCCXXXIII. [1733]- Books
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Philosophical essays on various subjects, viz. Space, substance, body, spirit, the Operations of the Soul in Union with the Body, Innate Ideas, perpetual Consciousness, Place and Motion of Spirits, the departing Soul, the Resurrection of the Body, the Production and Operations of Plants and Animals: with some remarks on Mr. Locke's Essay on the human understanding. To which is subjoined A brief scheme of ontology, or The Science of Being in general, with its Affections. By I. Watts, D.D.
Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748.Date: MDCCXXXIV. [1734]- Books
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The natural history of animals containing the anatomical description of several creatures dissected by the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris. Wherein The Construction, Fabrick and genuine Use of the Parts, are exactly and finely delineated in Copper Plates, and the whole Enriched with many Curious Physical and no less useful Anatomical Remarks, being one of the most Considerable Productions of that Academy. Done into English by a Fellow of the Royal Society. To which is added an account of the measure of a degree of a great circle of the earth, Published by the Members of the same Academy: English'd by R.W. Srs. With an alphabetical table of the Names of the several Animals mention'd in this Volume. And likewise an Alphabetical Index to make the Work Compleat. Publish'd by an Order of Council of the Royal Society
Académie royale des sciences (France)Date: 1702- Books
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Milton's Paradise lost, or, the fall of man: with historical, philosophical, critical, and explanatory notes. From the learned Raymond de St. Maur. Wherein The Technical Terms in the Arts and Sciences are explained; the original Signification of the Names of Men, Cities, Animals, &c. and from what Language derived, rendered easy and intelligible. Also The Mythological Fables of the Heathens, wherever referr'd to, historically related; difficult Passages cleared of their Obscurity; and the Whole reduced to the Standard of the English Idiom. In twelve books. Embellished with a great number of copper-plates.
Dupré de Saint-Maur, Nicolas-François, 1695-1774.Date: MDCCLV. [1755]
