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A medieval guide to practical magic
With few sources of effective help available when treating an injured patient, the medieval physician could instead stage a healing ceremony using a practical how-to guide he carried with him.
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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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Good news for England, or, A prediction of the happy success that will attend their Majesties Protestant army now in Ireland, and the miserable fate of the French and Irish papists there in arms and open rebellion against their majesties : shewing how that by the policy and power of the great Duke Schomberg and the rest of those worthy gentlemen and soldiers there under his command, the late King James and all his adherents, that do not timely lay hold on their most gracious Majesties act of indemnity, will be totally brought unto ruine and desolation : for Ireland must and will certainly be made subject to King William and Queen Mary / by W. K. Astrologer.
W. K. (Astrologer)Date: 1689- Books
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An astrological judgement touching theft : wherein is demonstrated most incomparable secrets according to the best rules in art : first how to find out or discover theft or theeves ... : secondly to discover fugitives and beasts lost or strayed, &c. ... / by Anthony Griffin, stud. in astrology.
Griffin, Anthony, Stud. in astrologyDate: 1665- Books
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Tetractys anti-astrologica, or, The four chapters in the explanation of the grand mystery of holiness : which contain a brief but solid confutation of judiciary astrology, with annotations upon each chapter : wherein the wondrous weaknesses of John Butler, ... his answer called A vindication of astrology, &c. are laid open ... / by Hen. More.
More, Henry, 1614-1687Date: 1681- Books
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Thomas 1612 A prognostication for this present yeare of our Lord God. M DC XII : Being bissextile or leap yeare. Rectified and composed for the eleuation of the Pole articke, and meridian of the Port-towne of Bridgewater in Somerset, aptly seruing the adiacent shires [and] southwest parts of great Brittaine, and generally the whole continent. By John Thomas practitioner in the iudicialls of astrologie and phisicke. The workes of the Lord are great, and ought to be sought out of all them that haue pleasure therein.
Thomas, John, judicial astrologer and physicianDate: [1612]- Books
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Opus astrologicum, &c., or, An astrological work left to posterity / by Nich. Culpeper, Gent.
Culpeper, Nicholas, 1616-1654Date: 1654