Stories
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A little wildness
To salve her longing for a dog, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan chose a puppy. She found that, despite centuries of domestication, her dog still retains aspects of her wild ancestry.
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Notes upon arrival
In an effort to feel at home back in the country of her birth, poet Bhanu Kapil recognises the small revelations of nature in a chilly UK spring as a way to reconnect.
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A history of gestation outside the body
It’s been over 400 years since a Swiss alchemist theorised that foetuses could develop outside the womb. Claire Horn examines incubator technology past and present, and explores the possibilities recent prototypes might bring.
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Animalivm qvadrvpedvm omnis generis verae et artificiosissimae delineationes / Pictore Marco Gerardo Brugense. Ao 1583. C.J. Vischer excudit.
Gheeraerts, Marcus, approximately 1520-Date: 1583- Books
Catalogus bibliothecae luculentissimae, & exquisitissimis ac rarissimis in omni disciplinarum & linguarum genere libris, magno studio, dilectu & sumptu quaesitis, instructissimae, a Joanne de Witt, Joannis Hollandiae consiliarii & syndici, magnique sigilli custodis, filio. : Illius auctio habebitur Dordraci, in aedibus defuncti, 20 Octobris, 1701.
Witt, Johan de, 1662-1701.Date: Apud T. Goris, & J. van Braam,- Books
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Select tracts relating to colonies. Consisting of I. An essay on plantations. By Sir Francis Bacon Lord Chancellor of England. II. Some passages taken out of the History of Florence, &c. III. A treatise. By John de Witt pensioner of Holland. IV. The benefit of plantations or colonies. By William Penn. V. A discourse concerning plantations. By Sir Josiah Child.
Date: [1732]- Books
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Political maxims of the state of Holland: comprehending a general view of the civil government of that republic, and the Principles on which it is founded; the Nature, Rise, and Progress of the Commerce of its Subjects, and of their true Interests with respect to all their Neighbours. By John de Witt, Pensionary of Holland. Translated from the Dutch original, which contains many curious passages not to be found in any of the French versions. To which is prefixed, historical memoirs of the two illustrious Brothers Cornelius and John de Witt.
Court, Pieter de la, approximately 1618-1685.Date: M.DCC.XLIII. [1743]
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A laboratory manual of human anatomy / by Lewellys F. Barker ; assisted by Dean De Witt Lewis and Daniel Graisberry Revell.
Barker, Lewellys F. (Lewellys Franklin), 1867-1943.Date: 1904