Stories
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The secret hystery of a womb
A Renaissance image of a caesarean section inspired Anna Blundy to recount the story of a hidden, perhaps mysterious part of her body.
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Ayurveda: Knowledge for long life
The story of medicine in India is rich and complex. Aarathi Prasad investigates how it came to be this way.
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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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Why the world needs collectors
Those who collect play an important role as “facilitators of curiosity”, says Anna Faherty.
Catalogue
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N. Grew, the anatomy of plants / With an ide
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Goethe the alchemist : a study of alchemical symbolism in Goethe's literary and scientific works / Ronald Douglas Gray.
Gray, Ronald D.Date: 2010- Books
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Recherches sur l'appareil tégumentaire des racines / par Louis Olivier.
Date: 1881- Books
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An introduction to structural botany / by Dukinfield Henry Scott.
Date: 1894-1896- Books
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Lectures on histology : delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England / by John Quekett.
Date: 1852-1854