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Lord Kelvin was the first to call the being a “demon,” alluding to the Greek idea of a supernatural “daemon” rather than to the Christian idea of an evil minion of Satan.

Nevertheless, most images of Maxwell’s demon render him devilish. 2/2

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2021-06-14

William Crookes was an important spirit investigator & much of his research on spiritualism connected to his larger work in the physical sciences, such as electromagnetic radiation. These materials are held today , including his radiometers.

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2021-06-09

Like Victorians? Like Insects? Like Lewis Carroll? Great! I'm giving a talk "Of Wasps in Wigs and Gnatter with Gnats: How Insects made Alice in Wonderland" at 's 'Cabinet of Natural History' seminar today at 1pm! Zoom link upon request

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2021-05-17

At 24 years-old Huxley published his first paper in which built on his zoological observations on board HMS Rattlesnake as Assistant-Surgeon. Explore a collection of his work from the Royal Society archive: https://t.co/LV8qSrv3gZ https://t.co/x2dvHT04Qw

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2021-05-04

Taken from an upcoming Special Issue published in Notes and Records find out about Taylor White's Collection of paintings from the 1700s https://t.co/bBmjSRIzur

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2021-04-30

Taken from an upcoming Special Issue for Notes and Records this paper explores Taylor White (1701–1772) who has been substantially ignored in the historiography of science https://t.co/xLldqpbjLy

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2021-04-30

This from the Neogene of Caniles (Granada) (c. 23 - 5,3 Ma) was collected in 1804 by the Simón de Rojas Clemente (1777-1827). Between 1804 and 1809 he made a trip to Andalucía to study the of the Kingdom of

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2021-04-27

Vanadinite is a fairly rare mineral that owes its name to its high vanadium content. It was discovered by the Spanish Andrés del Río in a lead deposit in Mexico. brought the first samples of the mineral to Europe.

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2021-04-19

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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2021-03-10

Ce jeudi, de midi à 13h, j'interviens au séminaire d'histoire des maths de "Prêcher la géométrie : les sermons miniers de Johannes Mathesius et Cyriacus Spangenberg" ! Si vous aimez le Saint-Empire, les sermons et la géométrie, je peux vous envoyer le lien🚩

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2021-03-09

Tres ciudades marcan la historia de Guayaquil, la ciudad de su infancia y juventud; París, donde reúne su fantástico gabinete; y Madrid, la última etapa de su periplo vital y donde culmina su carrera dirigiendo el

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2021-02-19

Legendary naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace was born He co-discovered evolution through natural selection during an 8-year journey through Southeast Asia, a journey of over 14,000 miles, during which time he collected over 125,000 specimens.

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2021-01-08

in 1872, Charles The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals was published.

As bold in its own way as the Origin, Expression posited that the same emotions and the same modes of expression are universal across humans and many animals. 1/4

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2020-11-27

Sept 23, 1832 Darwin's 1st fossil recovered at Punta Alta, Argentina. During the first two years of his voyage aboard HMS Beagle, Darwin collected a considerable number of fossil mammals from various South American localities. https://t.co/hJdxzjUPe7

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2020-09-23

Alcide d' Orbigny, French paleontologist who founded the science of was born in 1802 https://t.co/XgU4ZnXaGY

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2020-09-06

Berger also observed two fruit trees, Mulberry and Fig, fading in that first week of September, 1755.

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2020-08-30

Astronomical rings were made popular by Dutch instrument maker Gemma Frisius. Simple & ingenious, they identify the meridian when the rings' shadows come together. These rings were made by Frisius' nephew in 1567.

https://t.co/yExra3XFSF

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2020-08-28

The image is by one of my absolute favorites.

The below are from Figuier’s La Terre avant le Déluge (The World before the Flood). Images: Wikimedia Commons.

https://t.co/OU8KGJ6A59

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2020-08-23

An oleander plant (Nerium oleander): flowering stem. Coloured lithograph, c. 1850, after A. Bétrérnieux (?). From .

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2020-08-17

This week in Stillingfleet's 1755 Rooks roost in their nesting trees, while the Goat Sucker, or Nightjar, is no longer heard at night. Yellow Devil's Bit is in bloom, as Peas and Wheat are ready for harvest.

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2020-08-17