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

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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.

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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

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2021-10-06

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

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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

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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

Sometimes at the end of a long week, I realize any phrase written in trochaic tetrameter can be sung to the tune of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles theme song.

And that's all the excuse I need for another totally radical edition of

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2021-07-17

Inigo Jones, an English was born in 1573. Jones is noted for being the first to introduce Italian architectural style into Great Britain. Learn more about Jones in his profile: https://t.co/Yxb3uMAnvV

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2021-07-16

Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish was born in 1577. Rubens was one of the best-educated artists of the Learn more about Rubens in his Profile: https://t.co/Qa4Gfsr7ue

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2021-06-28

Want to be as knowledgeable about as Sterling

Check out 's profile of Karl Landsteiner, the Austrian physician who isolated the polio virus & confirmed the existence of blood types!

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2021-06-14

Francis Lister Hawks, American Episcopal priest who wrote the official narrative of Matthew Perry's 1852-54 expedition to is 's

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2021-06-10

Stefano della Bella, an Italian artist and engraver, was born in 1610. Della Bella designed and etched the frontispiece to Galileo’s Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems (1632). Learn more in his profile: https://t.co/PdJhe3lnbS

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2021-05-18

The astrologer and physician Anthony Ascham's astronomy book from 1526-27 at translated Sacrobosco's "De sphaera mundi" and also included Ascham's poem about the magician Saint Cyprian of Antioch: https://t.co/2Xsh5rb1LS

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2021-05-05

Dati's "La Sfera" from ca. 1450-1500 at , a rhyming explanation of astronomy and navigation with lovely tinted drawings: https://t.co/lO2aeoXiUT

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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

Eugène Delacroix, a French artist, was born in 1798. Delacroix is known as one of the most important figures of French Romanticism. Learn more about Delacroix in his profile: https://t.co/4RVe1NYi5Q

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2021-04-27