Stories
- Photo story
The spectacle maker
Born into the eyewear business 80 years ago, Lawrence Jenkin still designs and makes glasses, while supporting and inspiring the generations of designers following him.
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The doctor who challenged the unicorn myth
Our era of fake news and medical misinformation is nothing new. Estelle Paranque relays the thrusts and parries of a 440-year-old row over a magical cure-all, the unicorn horn.
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The men who meddled with nature
The ‘acclimatisation societies’ of the 19th century sought to ‘improve’ on the natural world by releasing non-native species into the wild. The effects were disastrous.
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A head apart from the body
We look to the future of science via science fiction to explore how a head may live apart from its body.
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From Greenleaf's press. New-York, January 16, 1794. Glorious news from France.
Date: 1794]- Books
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The commercial treaty. A New Ballad, from France.
Date: 1786]- Books
Medicine in the New World : New Spain, New France, and New England / edited by Ronald L. Numbers.
Date: [1987], ©1987- Books
Diderot / Peter France.
France, Peter, 1935-Date: 1983- Books
Manifestations of madness in New France / J.D.M. Griffin, C. Greenland.
Griffin, J. D. M.Date: 1978