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Just wrapped up my second rare book presentation of the week, focusing on the history of in the Middle East and East Asia.

Many thanks to & for their assistance identifying some top-notch titles for tonight's discussion!

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2021-04-16

Louis Thomas Jerôme Auzoux, French anatomist who became famous for manufacturing papier-mâché anatomical models, is 's

https://t.co/IUPjdwj29j

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2021-04-07

And we're live! Please join us for the final session on instruments.

Note: Contrary to 's generous intro, I probably won't be livetweeting since I will be moderating the discussion. (Maybe one of my friends will step in?)

https://t.co/Jb74aYsl44

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2021-04-07

Wow, we're at the 1-year anniversary of Virtual HistSTM.

Thank you to everyone for your support. I'm really looking forward to sharing what's next for us. 😊

We started with a $20 Zoom account and now we're here to stay (hopefully with more funding down the line). https://t.co/g3A6VDmJAE

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2021-03-30

Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and author of The New American Practical Navigator (which remains in print over 200 yrs later!), is 's

https://t.co/6yEVf5pQzZ

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2021-03-26

I've finally startet this blog about the - an important and fascinating / in Thanks to & for showing me great which will feature too. Stay tuned & have a look: https://t.co/8rdrP6tLlX https://t.co/IckRgo23jy

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2021-03-22

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

Ashton Lever (an English natural history collector) *and* Sarah Stone (an English watercolor artist & illustrator) are 's Scientists of the Day!

https://t.co/KIWLWvFANZ


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2021-03-05

'Blast of Giant Atom Created Our Universe:' One of the earliest popular accounts of the cosmological creation idea, proposed by Belgian astronomer Georges Lemaître, that would become known as the Big Bang Theory (Popular Science, December 1932): https://t.co/9yvxfljYen

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2021-02-25

Gerard O'Neill, American physicist, space advocate, and visioneer (HT ) was born in 1927.

Read more about his dream to colonize "The High Frontier" in this 1977 article: https://t.co/Ta6ppGFO69

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2021-02-07

George Ehret, German botanical artist whose painting of a tri-petal magnolia (seen here) appears in Mark Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, was born in 1708.

Learn more in 's profile: https://t.co/ljQQjxerzR

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2021-01-31

Auguste Piccard, a Swiss physicist, balloonist, and the inspiration for one of fiction's most famous absent-minded professors (#Tintin's Prof. Tournesol/Calculus), is 's

https://t.co/xdolbTLbmC


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2021-01-28

Well, it looks like I've found a new

(Detail of a hand-colored engraving from LHL's copy of Kaspar Maria von Sternberg's Versuch der Flora der Vorwelt: https://t.co/5o1OqEaQlq)

https://t.co/MoqxLOlwYC

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2021-01-06

Happy New Year, friends!

The deadline for fellowship applications is only 2 weeks away (Jan. 15).

You may have heard we're only offering virtual during the 2021-22 academic year. What exactly does that mean? Read on...

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2021-01-02

Do you recognize this duck?

Today's lunchtime read: presents a brief biography of Professor Ludwig Von Drake and his contributions to efforts to promote color TV.

https://t.co/ApkfhIpoQx

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2020-12-31

I haven’t studied it at all, but you can immediately see a marked similarity between the sketch on p63 of the newly digitized notebook and the frontispiece to Principles of Geology.

https://t.co/HMvhA6sWhl

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2020-12-12

Thanks to for an entomological addition to my today - adds some welcome colour! https://t.co/FqSFMpd4tf

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2020-12-11

Happy everyone!

We hope that you all are all enjoying a safe and relaxing holiday!

In honor of here's an illustration from Charles-Lucien Bonaparte's American published between 1825 and 1833.


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2020-11-27

As Gemini Was to an Apollo Lunar Landing by 1970, So Apollo Would Be to a Lunar Base by 1980 — https://t.co/ZkCQQqVVEw No Shortage of Dreams.

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2020-11-17

Amazing watercolors from the 16th-century Tovar Codex at , attributed to Jesuit Juan de Tovar but likely based on an earlier Nahuatl source by Christianized Aztecs: https://t.co/fUzwTDF31H

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2020-10-31