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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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Jambūdvīpa, the central continent of the middle world in Jain cosmology. Watercolour.
Date: 1800-1899Reference: 575181i- Books
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Parmenides sive de stabiliendis per adplicationem principiorum dunatoscopicorum ad res sensu, et experientia cognoscendas scienti? cosmologic? fundamentis. Quo omnis eorum Philosophia evertitur, qui mundi materiam aut ipsam substantiam Divinam, aut a Deo numerice diversam esse sentiunt, ostenditurque, in universum omnia unum esse, quae vero plura videntur, ea relativa esse omnia, absoluti nihil auctore Joanne Theodoro van der Kemp.
Kemp, Johannes Theodorus van der, 1747-1811.Date: M,DCC,LXXXI. [1781]- Books
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A new treatise, proving a multiplicity of worlds : That the planets are regions inhabited, and the earth a star, and that it is out of the center of the world in the third heaven, and turns round before the sun which is fixed. And other most rare and curious things. / By Peter Borell, counselor and physitian to the King of France.
Borel, Pierre, 1620?-1671Date: 1658- Books
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Astronomical principles of religion, natural and reveal'd. In nine parts: I. Lemmata; or the known laws of matter and motion. II. A particular account of the system of the universe, III. The truth of that system briefly demonstrated. IV. Certain observations drawn from that system. V. Probable conjectures of the nature and uses of the several celestial bodies contained in the same system. VI. Important principles of natural religion demonstrated from the foregoing observations. VII. Important principles of divine revelation confirm'd from the foregoing conjectures. VIII. Such inferences shewn to be the common voice of nature and reason, from the testimonies of the most considerable persons in all ages. IX. A recapitulation of the whole: with a large and serious address to all, especially to the scepticks and unbelievers of our age. Together with a preface, of the temper of mind necessary for the discovery of divine truth; and of the degree of evidence that ought to be expected in divine matters. By William Whiston, M.A. sometime professor of the Mathematicks in the University of Cambridge.
Whiston, William, 1667-1752.Date: 1717- Books
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A new treatise proving a multiplicity of worlds : that the planets are regions inhabited and the earth a star, and that it is out of the center of the world in a third heaven, and turns round before the sun which is fixed : and other most rare and curious things / by Peter Borell.
Borel, Pierre, 1620?-1671Date: 1658