Stories
- Article
A history of mindfulness
Matt Drage questions how an ancient religious practice became a secular cure for stress.
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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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The birth of the public museum
The first public museums evolved from wealthy collectors’ cabinets of curiosities and were quickly recognised as useful vehicles for culture.
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Yoga gets physical
Modern yoga owes a debt to the physical culture movement that created a world obsessed with health and fitness.
Catalogue
- Journals
Almagest : international journal for the history of scientific ideas / Network of History of Science of Southwestern Europe.
Date: 2010-- Books
Cold War science and the transatlantic circulation of knowledge / edited by Jeroen van Dongen ; associate editors Friso Hoeneveld, Abel Streefland.
Date: 2015- Books
Europeans on the move : studies on European migration, 1500-1800 / [edited by] Nicholas Canny.
Date: 1994- Books
Empires of knowledge : scientific networks in the early modern world / edited by Paula Findlen.
Date: 2019- Books
Empire and science in the making : Dutch colonial scholarship in comparative global perspective, 1760-1830 / edited by Peter Boomgaard.
Date: 2013