Stories
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What is air, and how do we know?
Watching bubbles in fermenting beer led 18th-century scientist Joseph Priestley to invent sparkling water – and to discover that different gases make up the air we breathe.
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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
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An essay upon the amendment of the calendar.
Echlin, John, active 18th century.Date: MDCCLVI. [1756]- Books
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The Newtonian system of the world, the best model of government : an allegorical poem. With a plain and intelligible account of the system of the world, by way of annotations: with copper plates: To which is added, Cambria's complaint against the intercalary day in the leap-year / By J.T. Desaguliers.
Desaguliers, J. T. (John Theophilus), 1683-1744.Date: 1728- Books
A vindication of the new calendar tables and rules : annexed to the Act for regulating the commencement of the year, and correcting the calendar, against the objections made to it, with respect to the time appointed for the celebration of Easter Day: to which is added, a more full account of the Act; written whilst it was depending in the House of Commons.
Daval, Peter, -1763.Date: MDCCLXI. [1761]- Books
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The earl of Macclesfield's speech in the House of Peers, On Monday the 18th Day of March, 1750. At the second reading of the bill, for regulating the commencement of the year, &c.
Macclesfield, George Parker, Earl of, 1697-1764.Date: MDCCLI. [1751]- Books
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The earl of Macclesfield's speech in the House of Peers on Monday the 18th day of March 1750. At the second reading of the bill for regulating the commencement of the year, &c.
Macclesfield, George Parker, Earl of, 1697-1764.Date: M.DCC.LI. [1751]