Stories
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Tripping for spiritualism and science
Getting high in the name of religion or creativity has been practised for centuries. Now it seems hallucinogenics could help treat mental illnesses too.
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The 200-year search for normal people
Sarah Chaney poses the question we’ve likely all asked at some point in our lives: 'Am I normal?’, and explores whether normality even exists.
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Exceptional talent and the trouble with IQ tests
Is a high IQ really a mark of genius, or does something else explain the exceptional?
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’No you’re not’ – a portrait of autistic women
In this sensitive series of portraits and interviews, photographer Rosie Barnes acknowledges the voices and experiences of autistic women.
Catalogue
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Encyclopedia of the history of Arabic science / edited by Roshdi Rashed ; in collaboration with Régis Morelon.
Date: 1996- Books
History of mathematical and physical sciences in the U.S.S.R. : historical survey / [editor, Luboš Nový].
Date: 1982- Books
Proportions : science, musique, peinture & architecture : actes du LIe Colloque international d'études humanistes, 30 juin - 4 juillet 2008 / textes réunis et édités par Sabine Rommevaux, Philippe Vendrix & Vasco Zara.
Colloque international d'études humanistes 2008 : Tours, France)Date: 2011, ©2011- Archives and manuscripts
Collection of notes of lectures on Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics, etc.
Clermont-Tonnerre, Aimé Marie Gaspard de, 1779-1865.Date: 1800-1801Reference: MSS.1666-1668Part of: Clermont-Tonnerre, Aimé Marie Gaspard de (1779-1865)- Books
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A collection of authentic, useful, and entertaining voyages and discoveries, digested in a chronological series. Performed by the following celebrated commanders, viz. Christopher Columbus. Vasco de Gama. Pedro Alvarez de Gabral. Sir Francis Drake. Sir Walter Raleigh. Sir Thomas Cavendish. Oliver Van Noort. George Spilbergen. W. Schooten and J. Le Maire. Captain Monk. The Sufferings of eight Seamen. Abel Tasman. - ---Dampier. Wafer's Journey across Darien. Captain Woodes Rogers and Courtney, including the History of Alexander Selkirk, who was found on the uninhabited Island of Juan Fernandes in the South Seas, after four years residence. Don George Juan, and Don Antonio de Ulloa. Lord Anson. Mr. Ellis. Narrative of the Doddington East-Indiaman. Martin's (and others) Description of St. Kilda. Russian Voyages for the Discovery of a North-East Passage. By John Barrow, Esq. Author of the Geographical Dictionary. ...
Barrow, John, teacher of mathematics.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]