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Anders Sparrman, Swedish naturalist and student of Linnaeus, is 's

These ornithological illustrations are from ' copy of Sparrman's Museum carlsonianum (1786-9).

https://t.co/LahjzbY9M1


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2022-08-09

The microscopic world is beautiful. Just look at all those Perty pictures!

Josef Anton Maximilian Perty, German naturalist who published an illustrated treatise on in 1852, is 's

https://t.co/lL28sRYIb7

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2022-08-08

A few of the inhabitants of "The Antediluvian World," as portrayed by John Emslie, English illustrator and engraver, is 's

https://t.co/ra2xoeP6fX

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2022-07-21

William Henry Smith, English bookseller who somehow became First Lord of the Admiralty and likely inspired the character of Sir Joseph Porter in is 's

https://t.co/Hpp0Tc2p1A


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2022-06-24

André Tacquet, a Flemish mathematician and Jesuit priest whose books are filled with emblematic imagery, is 's

https://t.co/Nqm1VWwTQN


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2022-06-23

In Enlightened France, women acted as cultural mediators of physiocratic political economy, read more in Notes and Records https://t.co/3l58veV4zF

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2022-06-10

Giovanni Domenico Cassini, Italian-French astronomer and namesake of a division in the rings of (first illustrated in the 1675 issue of Phil. Trans. of shown below), is 's

https://t.co/o3MmjMKKcW

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2022-06-08

An appetite for experiment! Explore the tastes of the Royal Society, just published in Notes and Records https://t.co/4noiPzVq0r

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2022-05-05

celebrates Elijah McCoy (b. 1844), the Black Canadian-American engineer whose inventions improved the efficiency of locomotives & steam engines.

He is often cited as the inspiration for the expression, "The real McCoy"

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2022-05-02

Charles Willson Peale was talking about before it was cool.

So far as I know, he is also the only person to be the subject of two posts in a single month.

Further details: https://t.co/zLA4rLQbSY

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2022-04-29

Elizabeth Gwillim, English artist who created these paintings of a great cormorant (L) and purple heron (R), is 's

https://t.co/D4oyZ6DefP

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2022-04-21

The visualization of animals in order to categorize their position in the great chain of being was one of the primary interests of natural history, read more in Notes and Records https://t.co/UzWiVmRsl8

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2022-04-07

That's all for this podcast playlist! Be sure to follow for updates about future & programs, as well as news about our research fellows.

Oh, and before I forget, here's the source of the image at the start of the thread!

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2022-02-22

Today's lunchtime read: The Mystery of the Missing

Find out how a letter in 's archives led on a search for this mythical beast...

https://t.co/eCZITYGeln

(Also...#HailHydra?)

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2022-01-14

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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2022-01-06

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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2022-01-02

Happy 315th birthday to Émilie du Châtelet, the subject of today's Du Châtelet was the author of Institutions de Physique & the 1st French translation of Newton's Principia, both of which are in 's rare book collection.

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2021-12-17

Claude-Louis Berthollet, a French was born in 1748. Berthollet accompanied during his invasion of Egypt. Learn more about Berthollet in his profile: https://t.co/2rwprb4dqu

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2021-12-10

Claude-Louis Berthollet, French chemist who accompanied during his invasion of Egypt, is 's

https://t.co/q20ELxq0KD

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2021-12-09