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A whimsical illustration by French caricaturist J. J. Grandville (1803-1847) from his 1844 collection, "Un autre monde: transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations..." https://t.co/nkt2WeF8H1 #history #twitterstorians #art #arthistory
Beautiful! The 1767 edition of Mark Catesby's "A collection of 85 curious trees and shrubs, the produce of North America" at @BeineckeLibrary. Source via @OsbornEarlyMod: https://t.co/g66InEwB1g #earlymodern #history #twitterstorians #histSTM
Adorable brown and white Norfolk or water spaniel painted by George Stubbs in 1778 at @YaleBritishArt! Stubbs was most famous for his paintings of animals, especially horses, and studied their anatomy: https://t.co/On4RZO0YIL #earlymodern #arthistory #histSTM #twitterstorians
Massive Neolithic pits have been found two miles from Stonehenge, circling the site of a large henge at Durrington Walls. They are each about 33 feet in diameter and 16 feet deep and may have indicated the boundary of the sacred site: https://t.co/nC7L2XNBKJ #history #archaeology
A vibrantly illustrated work on alchemy written in French in ca. 1710 at @BeineckeLibrary: https://t.co/i2I0z42vkI #history #twitterstorians #histSTM #earlymodern
Exploring epidemics across history, science, society, and art - great blog posts from students in Paola Bertucci's graduate seminar at Yale on visual and material cultures of science! https://t.co/NICbXebfjX #twitterstorians #histSTM #histmed
Fabulous 1753 depiction of itinerant tradesman by Marcellus Laroon @jjcollephemera - notice the spectacles! Small vision aids were widely sold in streets and diverse shops in cities like London for centuries: https://t.co/Tu5ukgALNf #history #twitterstorians #histSTM #earlymodern
"Before and after" ad from 1893 at @bodleianlibs for "Duchess pills" - which in addition to enhancing one's beauty were supposed to cure anemia, palpitations, and skin eruptions: https://t.co/Tu5ukgALNf #history #twitterstorians #histSTM #histmed
Fascinating introduction at @corningmuseum to the history of women in glassmaking, including the production of incandescent lightbulbs as seen on the cover of Scientific American in 1895: https://t.co/kkkmnIqVOn #womenshistory #twitterstorians #histSTM
Robert Yerkes artifacts @yalepeabody illuminate history of primate research, intelligence testing, WW1, eugenics, and science & women scientists in Russia & Cuba! Guest appearances by Ivan Pavlov & Alfred Kinsey: https://t.co/gm7r2HuIQY #museums #histmed #histSTM #twitterstorians