Stories
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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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Dissertations : on the mechanics of effervescence and fermentation and on the mechanics of the movement of the muscles / by John Bernoulli ; edited and translated by Paul Maquet, assisted by August Ziggelaar ; with an introduction by Troels Kardel.
Bernoulli, Jean, 1667-1748.Date: 1997- Books
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The preternatural state of animal humours : described by their sensible qualities, which depend on the different degrees of their fermentation and the cure of each particular cacochymia is performed by medicines of a peculiar specific taste, described : to this treatise are added two appendixes I. About the nature of fevers and their ferments and cure by particular tastes, II. Concerning the effervescence and ebullition of the several cacochymia's ... / by the author of Pharmacho bazagth.
Floyer, John, Sir, 1649-1734Date: 1696- Books
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Pyretologia, or, A history of feavers : composed according to such use of the parts, circulation of the blood and the various offices both of the lympid liquor and nervous juice, as have been the happy discoveries of modern anatomie : together with a more particular description of the uses of the spleen and pancreas : as also of the manner of natures proceeding in the several motions of fermentation and ebullition, then hath been formerly divulged.
Date: 1674- Books
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Mercurius coelestis : being an almanack for the year of the worlds redemption, 1681. And of its creation according to the best of history, 5630. It being the first after bissextile, or leap-year in which is comprized variety of matter fit for such a subject, - as the aspects of the planets, eclipses, sun rising and setting, monthly observations in verse and prose. With other things. [bracket] Astronomically and astrologically [bracket] considered. Calculated for the meridian of London. / By John Partridge.
Partridge, John, 1644-1715Date: 1681- Books
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Mercurius coelestis : being an almanack for the year of the worlds redemption, 1681. And of its creation according to the best of history, 5630. It being the first after bissextile, or leap-year in which is comprized variety of matter fit for such a subject, - as the aspects of the planets, eclipses, sun rising and setting, monthly observations in verse and prose. With other things. [bracket] Astronomically and astrologically [bracket] considered. Calculated for the meridian of London. / By John Partridge.
Partridge, John, 1644-1715Date: 1681