Stories
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Restoring disorder to ‘The Book of Disquiet’
Printer Tim Hopkins explains what making an extraordinary new edition of Fernando Pessoa’s book revealed about both the text and the mind.
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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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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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The science of why things spread
From deadly pandemics to viral tweets, Adam Kucharski explores what makes something contagious.
Catalogue
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Vesalius at 500 : an exhibition commemorating the five hundredth anniversary of the birth of Andreas Vesalius / exhibition and catalogue by Philip Oldfield.
Oldfield, PhilipDate: [2014]- Books
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The jewel house of art and nature : containing divers rare and profitable inventions, together with sundry new experiments in the art of husbandry : with divers chymical conclusions concerning the art of distillation, and the rare practises and uses thereof, faithfully and familiarly set down, according to the authours own experience / by Sir Hugh Plat ... ; whereunto is added, a rare and excellent discourse of minerals, stones, gums, and rosins, with the vertues and use thereof, by D.B., Gent.
Plat, Hugh, Sir, 1552-1608?Date: 1653- Books
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The country-mans recreation, or the art of planting, graffing, and gardening : in three bookes. The first declaring divers wayes of planting, and graffing ... also how to cleanse your grafts and cions, how to helpe barren and sicke trees, how to kill wormes and vermin and to preserve and keepe fruit, how to plant and proyne your vines, and to gather and presse your grape ... how to make your cider and perry ... The second treateth of the hop-garden, with necessary instructions for the making and the maintenance thereof ... Whereunto is added, the expert gardener, containing divers necessary and rare secrets belonging to that art.
Date: 1640- Books
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Tes iatrikes kartos, or, A treatise de morborum capitis essentiis & pronosticis : adorned with above three hundred choice and rare observations ... / by Robert Bayfield.
Bayfield, Robert, 1629-Date: 1663- Books
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Grana angelica: or, The rare and singular vertues and uses of those angelical pils : discovered and left to posterity, by Doctor Patrick Anderson, late physician of Edinburgh.
Anderson, Patrick, active 1618-1635Date: Printed in the year, 1681