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Did you know that 46 exhibition catalogs, dating from 1956 to 2016, are now available online?

Check it out by visiting our digital collections: https://t.co/WTAk6f4xKc

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2021-11-25

Admiral Horatio Thomas Austin, a British naval officer, died in 1865. Austin led an expedition to the Arctic in search of the crew and ships of Sir John Franklin. Learn more about Austin in his profile: https://t.co/nQy0Eyl2si

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2021-11-17

Horatio Thomas Austin, British naval officer who led an expedition to the Arctic to determine the fate of the Franklin expedition, is 's

https://t.co/JfPNyaevGa

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2021-11-16

Louis-Bertrand Castel, a French natural was born in 1688. Castel proposed the creation of an "ocular harpsichord" that would play colors instead of sounds. Learn more about Castel in his profile: https://t.co/hZAJu07XKh

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2021-11-16

Louis-Bertrand Castel, the French natural philosopher who proposed the creation of an "ocular harpsichord" that would play colors instead of sounds, is 's

https://t.co/uK9O9PltZ1

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2021-11-15

Andorian-colored Wound Man from 1533 edition of Physica by Hildegard of Bingen ⚔️Art by Robert, one of our new Student Library Assistants in the https://t.co/I2jzj2LIvb

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2021-11-01

Excited to tune into the first session of Money & Knowledge in the Global 1980s. Today we'll be discussing:

* Big oil & Entrepreneurship w/
* Biotech & cancer biology w/Angela Creager
* asteroid detection efforts w/Matt Stanley

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2021-10-30

William Hazledine, an English died in 1840. Hazledine collaborated with Thomas Telford to construct some of Britain's greatest bridges. Learn more about Hazledine in his profile: https://t.co/s7azFtuYQ0

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2021-10-27

Andreas Cellarius, the German/Dutch cartographer responsible for one of the most beautiful books ever published (Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1661), is 's

https://t.co/aOw7w6De15

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2021-10-25

Umberto Boccioni, an Italian was born in 1882. Boccioni was one of the most influential members of an Italian school of painters known as Futurists. Learn more about Boccioni in his profile: https://t.co/TlGPtoIVho

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2021-10-20

Umberto Boccioni, an Italian painter & sculptor who reflected on technological themes as a member of the Futurist movement, is 's

https://t.co/6xLcJclY1R

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2021-10-19

Two portraits of Max the a long-time resident of the Paris menagerie, memorialized by French zoologist--& 's Milne-Edwards.

https://t.co/6hS3FQovVV

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2021-10-13

Charles Atwood Kofoid, marine invertebrate zoologist who helped establish , is 's

Kofoid was also a rare book collector & designed an incredible personal bookplate featuring various sea creatures!

https://t.co/W5ND0ao2zl

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2021-10-11

Johann Friedrich Esper, a German was born in 1732. Esper discovered the bones of an extinct species of cave bear in a Bavarian cave. Learn more about Esper in his profile: https://t.co/c9w37BJ4G8

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2021-10-07

Johann Friedrich Esper, German physician & paleontologist who discovered the bones of an extinct species of cave bear (Ursus spelaeus, whose jaw is shown below) in a Bavarian cave, is 's

https://t.co/xNGT0QMNGU

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2021-10-06

Denis Diderot, French philosophe & editor of the Encyclopédie, is 's

https://t.co/k3gt0Z7WCf

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2021-10-05

Today's honors biologist & oceanographer María de los Ángeles Alvariño González, who was born in 1916. She conducted research & & discovered 22 new marine organisms!

More info: https://t.co/A3HvFR4883

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2021-10-04

Arnout Vosmaer, Dutch naturalist who supervised the menagerie of King William IV, is 's

https://t.co/Z1jfIDDq9z

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2021-09-23

Not a curve as such, but Edward Hitchcock’s 1840 paleontological chart from Elementary Geology conveys something similar: “The comparative abundance or paucity of the different families, is shown by the greater or less space occupied by them upon the chart.”

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2021-08-08

Two views of the Dumbbell Nebula (M27), separated by 127 years.

L: Collotype of photo taken Aug. 1894 by William E. Wilson (https://t.co/mqziM3ewVd)
R: Digital image captured w/a 17-inch PlaneWave scope & QHY 410C CCD camera by Tony Hallas (HT )

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2021-07-19