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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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Talent, tech and visual art
Jamie Hale finds a combination of talent and technology are crucial when it comes to creating great visual art, but how do you keep working when your circumstances are in constant flux?
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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 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.
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A new travellers companion through de Netherlands containing a bref [sic] account of all what is worth to be taken notice on by a stranger. With occasional remarks on the state of their trade, forces, revenues and manners. Together with directions relating to the manner and expences of traveling from one place to another Likwise the different ways, to Antwerpe, Bruxels, Paris, Francfort, Hanover, Aix la Chapelle Spaw, &c.
Denson, R.Date: M.D.CC.LIV. [1754]- Books
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An hasty sketch of a tour through part of the Austrian Netherlands, and great part of Holland, made in the year 1785. With an account of the internal policy, government, &c. of the cities of Brussels and Amsterdam. By an English Gentleman.
English Gentleman.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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The tour of Holland, Dutch Brabant, the Austrian Netherlands, and part of France ; in which is included a description of Paris and its Environs. A new edition, corrected and improved, with a map of Holland and the Netherlands from the last surveys.
Peckham, Harry, -1787.Date: M,DCC,LXXX. [1780]- Books
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The tour of Holland, Dutch Brabant, the Austrian Netherlands, and part of France; in which is included a description of Paris And Its Environs.
Peckham, Harry, -1787.Date: M,DCC,LXXII. [1772]- Books
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A tour through Holland, Dutch Brabant, the Austrian Netherlands, and part of France: in which is included a description of Paris and its Environs: by the late Harry Peckham, Esq. One of His Majesty's Council, and Recorder of the City of Chichester. With this fourth edition is given a map of Holland and the Netherlands, from the last surveys.
Peckham, Harry, -1787.Date: MDCCLXXXVIII. [1788]