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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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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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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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The new royal road to geometry, and familiar introduction to the mathematics. Part I. Elements of Geometry Abridged. Containing the whole Substance of Euclid's first six, the eleventh and twelfth Books; with many other, useful and valuable, Theorems; treated in the most brief, easy, and intelligent manner; being an attempt to render the knowledge of that most useful and necessary Science more general. With Notes interspersed, critical, explanatory, and instructive. By Thomas Malton, Sen. To which is annexed, an Appendix, on the Theory of Mensuration of Superficies and Solids, as deduced from the Elements; with some Properties of Ellipses demonstrated.
Malton, Thomas, 1726-1801.Date: MDCCXCIII. [1793]- Books
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Elements of geometry; with their application to the mensuration of superficies and solids, to the determination of the maxima and minima of geometrical quantities, and to the Construction of a great Variety of Geometrical Problems. By Thomas Simpson, F. R. S. And Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Stockholm.
Simpson, Thomas, 1710-1761.Date: 1800- Books
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An introduction to mensuration, and practical geometry, with notes, containing the reason of every rule. By John Bonnycastle, ...
Bonnycastle, John, approximately 1760-1821.Date: [1798]- Books
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Elements of geometry, translated from the French of J. J. Rossignol, Professor Of Mathematics In The University Of Milan.
Rossignol, abbé (Jean Joseph), 1726-1807.Date: MDCCLXXXI. [1781]- Books
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Elements of geometry, translated from the French of J. J. Rossignol, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Milan.
Rossignol, Jean Joseph.Date: M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]