Stories
- Article
Eels and feels
For Georgian Londoners, the allure of electric animals was both intellectual and sensual.
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Fantastic beasts and unnatural history
Find out how a 17th-century compendium of the natural world came to present fantastical beasts –like dragons – as real, living creatures.
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Medieval doodles
Fish, lute players and defaced demons: marginal doodles in some of Europe’s first printed books provide a tantalising glimpse into the late-medieval mind.
- Photo story
The spectacle maker
Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.
Catalogue
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Fishes, crayfishes, and crabs : Louis Renard's natural history of the rarest curiosities of the seas of the Indies / edited by Theodore W. Pietsch.
Date: 1995- Archives and manuscripts
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M0005766: God creating the Fishes.
Date: 10 October 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/47/76Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Archives and manuscripts
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M0005785: The Creation of Birds and Fishes, from Nash: Genesis (1924)
Date: 11 October 1938Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/47/95Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive- Pictures
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Interior of a Turkish temple with the shrine of the Spring of the Miraculous Fishes, Baloukli. Engraving by J. Tingle after T. Allom.
Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872.Reference: 15436i- Books
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The Fauna of British India, including Ceylon and Burma / edited by W.T. Blanford. Fishes. VolsI & II / by Francis Day.
Date: 1889