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History of Science & Technology at Yale Peabody Museum since 2017. Museum historian since 2003. Science writer since 1998. #histSTM #earlymodern #twitterstorian
yale.academia.edu/AlexiBaker

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Through the autobiography of George King (1787-1857), 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

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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

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Enjoy a virtual tour of the Gold of the Great Steppe exhibition at , closing on 30 January 2022: https://t.co/1gm737RhC7

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Edinburgh journal of natural history and the physical sciences, with the Animal kingdom of the Baron Cuvier from 1835-1840 at - volume one (https://t.co/4GYLFBtegN) and volume two (https://t.co/8wUg7bPAtQ).

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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

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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

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The astrologer and physician Anthony Ascham's astronomy book from 1526-27 at translated Sacrobosco's "De sphaera mundi" and also included Ascham's poem about the magician Saint Cyprian of Antioch: https://t.co/2Xsh5rb1LS

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Dati's "La Sfera" from ca. 1450-1500 at , a rhyming explanation of astronomy and navigation with lovely tinted drawings: https://t.co/lO2aeoXiUT

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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 : https://t.co/WZItvluNL0

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Amazing watercolors from the 16th-century Tovar Codex at , attributed to Jesuit Juan de Tovar but likely based on an earlier Nahuatl source by Christianized Aztecs: https://t.co/fUzwTDF31H

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