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This month's #ArchivesHashtagParty is all about #ArchivesBugs which can be found in all their glory in Robert Hooke's 1665 Micrographia - the first important work on microscopy. The detailed illustrations give beauty to the smallest of creatures under his own design microscope

We're joining the conversation on #WorldWaterDay to show you what water means to us - since ancient times #engineers have harnessed the power of water as #renewable #energy.
Images: Vitruvian waterwheel & aqueduct; artesian waterwheel #Peshawar; #Darjeeling #Hydroelectric works

Today we ring in the New Year with these beautiful images of 'Bells in Venice' from Angelo Roccha's De Companis dated 1612.
We wish everyone a happy and healthy 2021.

Tonight is bonfire night and in this #rarebook from 1823 J. Badcock wrote about "winter amusements" including card tricks and making fireworks

The cartographer Paul Pfinzing was born in August 1554. We have a copy of his extremely rare work Methodus Geometrica, published in 1598 in Nuremburg, Germany. It is a printed, hand coloured treatise on geometry & surveying, instruments & cartographic techniques.

Sir John Ross died in August 1856. A notable explorer of the polar regions, this image of an Arctic Fox is from a book of 1835 describing his second journey to the Arctic.

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Today is World Health Day. This image is from a #rarebook by Giovanni Aldini who is best known for his work on anatomy and galvanism. Aldini gave a display of electro-stimulaton of the limbs of a deceased man at Newgate in London in 1803.

The arc lamp, developed between 1850s-1870s, was made from two pieces of carbon that gave off a dazzling light when connected to electricity. This technological advance had a huge social impact- well lit streets, public spaces & even floodlit football matches! #WednesdayWisdom

We have a gem of a #rarebook for you today, John Mawe's 1813 Treatise on Diamonds. Mawe was a British mineralogist who opened a shop on The Strand in 1811 close to where the IET is now based in Savoy Place.