Stories
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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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Selections of the elementary propositions in plane and spherical trigonometry; To which are added astronomical extracts. For the use of the under graduates of Trinity College, Dublin.
Date: 1797- Books
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The elements of trigonometry. Containing the properties, relations, and calculations of sines, tangents, secants, &c. The doctrine of the sphere, and the principles of plain and spherical trigonometry. All plainly and clearly demonstrated.
Emerson, William, 1701-1782.Date: MDCCLXIV. [1764]- Books
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Trigonometry, plane and spherical; with the construction and application of logarithms. By Thomas Simpson, F.R.S.
Simpson, Thomas, 1710-1761.Date: MDCCLXV. [1765]- Books
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Trigonometry, plane and spherical; with the construction and application of logarithms. By Thomas Simpson, F.R.S.
Simpson, Thomas, 1710-1761.Date: MDCCLXXIX. [1779]- Books
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Trigonometry, plane and spherical; with the construction and application of logarithms. By Thomas Simpson, F.R.S.
Simpson, Thomas, 1710-1761.Date: 1799