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English satirical novelist, diarist and playwright, Frances Burney (Madame d'Arblay), died 1840.

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2019-01-06

Quadrivium: Animals displaying instruments of astronomy instead of the more usual musical instruments in a margin of Ptolemy's "Almagest," manuscript from the early 1300s: BL Burney 275, f. 390v: pillar sundial, equatorium, astrolabe, and sextant

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2018-08-23

Surgeon Charles McBurney published 2 papers, in 1889 and 1891, describing what are now called ‘McBurney’s point’ (site of max tenderness in appendicitis) and ‘McBurney’s incision’ (used for appendectomy, also known as grid-iron, muscle splitting).

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2018-01-24

And here for good measure is a narwhal, the 'unicorn of the sea'!

Burney MS 97, f. 31v
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2017-12-11

there are different types of unicorns🦄? https://t.co/Xov9CNbG7r (Yates Thompson 13, Add 19352, Add 42130, Burney 97, Harley 4751)

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2017-11-02

The Pleasures of “the World”: Rewriting Epistolarity in Burney, Edgeworth, and Austen, by Rachael Scarborough King https://t.co/MVZmPnKfsE

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2017-05-17

Land-dwellers

British Library, Burney MS 97, Manuel Philes, De animalium proprietate (Greed) (1566).

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2017-03-07

Fanny Burney, lady of letters and quintessential Georgian, died in 1840.

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2017-01-06