Stories
- Interview
Inside the mind of Somewhere in Between’s curator, Laurie Britton Newell
The exhibition's curator shares her secrets.
- Article
When parenting brings a paradigm shift
There were no indications during her pregnancy that Carol Nahra’s son would have severe, life-threatening disabilities. Here she describes the stages on her journey from shock to love and beyond.
- Article
On body horror and growing up strange
A young child’s unusual feelings, reactions and assertions are routinely dismissed by adults. Find out how manga horror stories became a source of strength, and helped them trust their adult body.
- 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.
Catalogue
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On the elementary principles of nature; and the simple laws by which they are governed. Being an attempt to demonstrate their existence, and to explain their mode of action; particularly in those states, in which, they Produce the Attractions of Cohesion, Gravitation, Magnetism and Electricity; and also Fire, Light, and Water. By E. Peart, M.D.
Peart, E (Edward), 1756?-1824.Date: M.DCC.LXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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An essay at the mechanism of the macrocosm: or the dependance of effects upon their causes. In a new hypothesis, Accommodated to Our Modern and Experimental Philosophy. In which are solved several Phoenomena, hitherto unaccounted for; as the Cause of Gravitation, Motion, Reflexion, Refraction, &c. With a Method proposed to find out the Exact Rate that a Ship Runs, and consequently the Longitude at Sea.
Purshall, Conyers.Date: 1705- Books
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An historical and philosophical account of the barometer, or Weather-Glass. Wherein The Reason and Use of that Instrument, the Theory of the Atmosphere, the Causes of its different Gravitation are assign'd and explain'd. And a Modest Attempt from thence made towards a rational Account and probable Judgment of the Weather. By Edw. Saul, A. M. late Fellow of Magdalen College Oxford, and Rector of Harlaxton, Lincolnshire.
Saul, Edward, 1677-1754.Date: 1730- Books
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An historical and philosophical account of the barometer, or, weather-glass. Wherein The Reason and Use of that Instrument, the Theory of the Atmosphere, and the Causes of its different Gravitation, are Assigned and Explained. And A Modest Attempt from thence made towards a rational Account and probable Judgment of the Weather. By Edward Saul, A. M. Late Fellow of Magdalen-College, Oxford, and Rector of Harlaxton, Lincolnshire.
Saul, Edward, 1677-1754.Date: [1766]
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Centrifugal force and gravitation : a lecture / by John Harris.
Harris, John, 1942 May 3-Date: 1873