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Paris Morgue and a public spectacle of death

Known as the “only free theatre in Paris”, La Morgue was a popular place for the public to view cadavers on display.

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Drawing the human animal

We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.

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The shape of thought

Santiago Ramón y Cajal’s description of the moment in 1887 when he saw a brain cell for the first time never fails to move neuroscientist Richard Wingate to tears. Here he captures that enduring sense of wonder.

  • Long read

Our complicated love affair with light

Sunlight is essential, but our relationship with artificial light is less clear cut. It expands what’s possible; it also obscures and polices. In this long read, Lauren Collee pits light against night, and reveals the shady places in between.

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  • Faculte de Pharmacie de Paris. Courtyard with statue.
  • Monumental entrance of the Faculte' de Medecine de Paris.
  • Liste de Messieurs les docteurs-regens de la Faculté de médecine en l'Université de Paris, avec leurs demeures, 1770.
  • Liste de Messieurs les docteurs-regens de la Faculté de médecine en l'Université de Paris, avec leurs demeures, 1768.
  • Soldiers guarding the Faculte de medecine, Paris, 1908
  • Soldiers guarding the Faculte de Medecine, Paris, 1908
  • Faculte' de Medecine de Paris. Facade sur le Boulevard Saint-Germain.
  • Centenaire de la Faculté de médecine de Paris : (1794-1894) / par le Dr A. Corlieu.
  • Centenaire de la Faculté de médecine de Paris : (1794-1894) / par le Dr A. Corlieu.
  • Centenaire de la Faculté de médecine de Paris : (1794-1894) / par le Dr A. Corlieu.
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