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Bubbles of history

Since the 1960s, scientists have been able to study the air from past centuries by analysing particles in Arctic ice samples. But as the polar ice melts, the future of this research is changing.

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The rise and fall of a medical mesmerist

Uncover the fascinating story of the doctor who popularised hypnotism as a medical technique, and could name Dickens among his famous friends.

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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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Bringing Braille back to the modern world

For anyone who thinks Braille is so last century, read on. New tech is helping dust Braille down and bring it to today’s visually impaired people.

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  • The Louvre, Paris: part of the Imperial Library. Photograph by Achille Quinet, ca. 1870.
  • With the librarian's compliments / The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons Wellcome Library.
  • The skull of a sheep. From the Library of the Royal College of Surgeons.
  • With compliments / The Library, the Royal Veterinary College, University of London ; Librarian: Linda D. Warden.
  • Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
  • Antiquities of Mexico: comprising fac-similes of ancient Mexican paintings and hieroglyphics, preserved in the Royal Libraries of Paris, Berlin, and Dresden; in the Imperial Library of Vienna; in the Vatican Library; in the Borgian Museum at Rome; in the Library of the Institute at Bologna; and in the Bodleian Library at Oxford. Together with the Monuments of New Spain, by M. Dupaix: with their respective scales of measurement and accompanying descriptions. The whole illustrated by many valuable inedited manuscripts / by Lord Kingsborough; the drawings, on stone, by A. Aglio.
  • Les monuments alchimiques de Paris. L'unité de la matière. Author's holograph MSS. The first work contains a rough pen-drawing of the tomb of Étienne Yves 1467 in Nôtre Dame de Paris. Produced in Paris. From the Library of Lionel Hauser of Paris with his press-mark label 'L.H.61'.
  • Les monuments alchimiques de Paris. L'unité de la matière. Author's holograph MSS. The first work contains a rough pen-drawing of the tomb of Étienne Yves 1467 in Nôtre Dame de Paris. Produced in Paris. From the Library of Lionel Hauser of Paris with his press-mark label 'L.H.61'.
  • Les monuments alchimiques de Paris. L'unité de la matière. Author's holograph MSS. The first work contains a rough pen-drawing of the tomb of Étienne Yves 1467 in Nôtre Dame de Paris. Produced in Paris. From the Library of Lionel Hauser of Paris with his press-mark label 'L.H.61'.
  • Les monuments alchimiques de Paris. L'unité de la matière. Author's holograph MSS. The first work contains a rough pen-drawing of the tomb of Étienne Yves 1467 in Nôtre Dame de Paris. Produced in Paris. From the Library of Lionel Hauser of Paris with his press-mark label 'L.H.61'.
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