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Through the autobiography of George King (1787-1857), @FoundlingMuseum explores subjects including the impact of foundling labor on the British empire, the mental & physical toll of war, and slavery & race: https://t.co/am8c5miqgz #twitterstorians #museums #histmed #earlymodern
How applied entomology saved California's lucrative orange industry in the late 1800s, with imported Australian ladybugs combatting the cottony cushion scale: https://t.co/HmesOd9OML #history #twitterstorians #histSTM #histsci #insects #science
Enjoy a virtual tour of the Gold of the Great Steppe exhibition at @FitzMuseum_UK, closing on 30 January 2022: https://t.co/1gm737RhC7 #museums #archaeology #history
Edinburgh journal of natural history and the physical sciences, with the Animal kingdom of the Baron Cuvier from 1835-1840 at @BioDivLibrary - volume one (https://t.co/4GYLFBtegN) and volume two (https://t.co/8wUg7bPAtQ). #history #twitterstorians #histSTM #histsci #science
Conserving the Faddan More Psalter, a 1,200 year-old Latin psalm book found in an Irish bog. The cover has a papyrus reed lining, suggesting trade links between the Irish monks and Egypt: https://t.co/RYdBblSczK #twitterstorians #archaeology #history #medieval
A new species of giant rhino discovered in China might have been the largest land mammal to ever exist, being the size of six elephants and weighing 24 tons: https://t.co/oyO9OmbSKR #science #paleontology #fossils
The astrologer and physician Anthony Ascham's astronomy book from 1526-27 at @BeineckeLibrary translated Sacrobosco's "De sphaera mundi" and also included Ascham's poem about the magician Saint Cyprian of Antioch: https://t.co/2Xsh5rb1LS #twitterstorians #histSTM #earlymodern
Dati's "La Sfera" from ca. 1450-1500 at @BeineckeLibrary, a rhyming explanation of astronomy and navigation with lovely tinted drawings: https://t.co/lO2aeoXiUT #history #twitterstorians #histSTM #MedievalTwitter #libraries
Amazing! Sarah Stone, who was born in around 1760, painted thousands of watercolors like these of Ashton Lever's museum of natural and manmade artifacts in London. Blog post at @LindaHall_org: https://t.co/WZItvluNL0 #museums #histSTM #histsci #earlymodern #twitterstorians
Amazing watercolors from the 16th-century Tovar Codex at @JCBLibrary, attributed to Jesuit Juan de Tovar but likely based on an earlier Nahuatl source by Christianized Aztecs: https://t.co/fUzwTDF31H #history #twitterstorians #histSTM #arthistory #earlymodern