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Would you like to buy a dinosaur?
Two remarkable letters and a drawing of a plesiosaur by Mary Anning offer a tantalising portal into the exciting world of fossil hunting and discovery of the 1800s.
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The prostitute whose pox inspired feminists
Fitzrovia, 1875. A woman recorded only as A.G. enters hospital and is diagnosed with syphilis.
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Life before assistive technology
When an inherited condition caused Alex Lee’s vision to deteriorate, he began to discover the technologies that would help him navigate the world around him. Here he describes how his life began to change.
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How do advertisers get inside our heads?
Vance Packard exposed techniques of mass manipulation developed by 1950s advertisers that are still at work today in the age of big data.
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Description of the improved achromatic telescope, made with brass sliding tubes, by P. and J. Dollond, opticians, ...
P. and J. DollondDate: 1800?]- Books
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The newtonian system of philosophy. Adapted to the capacities of young ladies and gentlemen, And familiarized and made entertaining, By Objects with which they are intimately acquainted: being the substance of six lectures, read to a Select Company of Friends, by Tom Telescope, A.M. First collected and methodized by the late Mr. Newberry, for the Instruction and rational Entertainment of the Youth of these Kingdoms. Illustrated with Copperplates.
Telescope, Tom.Date: [1794]- Books
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The Newtonian system of philosophy adapted to the capacities of young gentlemen and ladies, ... being the substance of six lectures read to the Lilliputian Society, by Tom Telescope. A.M. and collected and methodized ... by ... Mr. Newbery, ...
Telescope, Tom.Date: 1784- Books
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The newtonian system of philosophy adapted to the capacities of young gentlemen and ladies. And familiarized and made entertaining by objects with which they are intimately acquainted: Being the substance of six lectures read to the Lilliputian Society, By Tom Telescope, A.M. and collected and methodized for the benefit of the youth of these kingdoms, by their old friend Mr. Newbery, in St. Paul's Church Yard. Who has also added a variety of copper plate cuts to illustrate and confirm the doctrines advanced.
Telescope, Tom.Date: MDCCLXXXVII. [1787]- Books
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On the power of penetrating into space by telescopes; with a comparative determination of the extent of that power in natural vision, and in telescopes of various sizes and constructions; illustrated by select observations. By William Herschel, LL.D. F.R.S. From the Philosophical transactions.
Herschel, William, Sir, 1738-1822.Date: 1800