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Homesick for planet Earth
Find out how homesick astronauts spend their free time, and how recreating home cooking from freeze-dried ingredients can cheer them all up.
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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 ugly truth about fast fashion
Aja Barber reflects on her relationship with fast fashion, outlines its polluting and destructive effects, and shares the small, personal changes we can make that could help.
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It’s getting mighty crowded
Mid-20th-century population-density research on mice produced a whiskered apocalypse, predicted to become the fate of humans too. But perhaps a more compassionate approach could fend this off.
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An essay on the certainty and causes of the earth's motion on its axis, &c.
Sheeres, Henry, -1710Date: 1698- Books
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The new planet no planet: or, The earth no wandring star; except in the wandring heads of Galileans : Here out of the principles of divinity, philosophy, astronomy, reason, and sense, the earth's immobility is asserted; the true sense of Scripture in this point, cleared; the fathers and philosophers vindicated; divers theologicall and philosophicall points handled, and Copernicus his opinion, as erroneous, ridiculous, and impious, fully refuted. / By Alexander Rosse. In answer to a discourse, that the earth may be a planet.
Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654Date: 1646. [i.e. 1647]- Books
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The new planet no planet: or, The earth no wandring star; except in the wandring heads of Galileans : Here out of the principles of divinity, philosophy, astronomy, reason, and sense, the earth's immobility is asserted; the true sense of Scripture in this point, cleared; the fathers and philosophers vindicated; divers theologicall and philosophicall points handled, and Copernicus his opinion, as erroneous, ridiculous, and impious, fully refuted. / By Alexander Rosse. In answer to a discourse, that the earth may be a planet.
Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654Date: 1646. [i.e. 1647]- Books
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An account of the calculations made from the survey and measures taken at Schehallien, in order to ascertain the mean density of the earth. By Charles Hutton, Esq. F.R.S. Read at the Royal Society, May 21, 1778.
Hutton, Charles, 1737-1823.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Conamen ad motum Telluris probandum ex observationibus astronomi celeberrimi Roberti Hooke Regiæ Societatis, apud Londinenses, Socii : Quod è sermone Anglicano in Latinum transtulit Guilhelmus Nicolson, Collegi Reginalis, apud Oxonienses, Art. Bacc.
Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703Date: Anno M DC LXXIX. [1679]