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You'll really get a charge out of these electrostatic generators!

They were built by Johann Heinrich Winkler, German electrical experimenter and 's

https://t.co/DiODJufGCs

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2021-03-12

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

Max von Laue, German physicist who received the 1914 in for his research into X-ray crystallography, is our

(Contrary to this clerihew, we can not confirm that he ever owned a Chihuahua...)

https://t.co/LaqT1EScWk

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2020-10-09

Rumor has it that 's new book on army includes an illustration from our History of Science Collection, specifically this image from Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (1705).

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https://t.co/8bzw7IQTRQ

https://t.co/kV5zrdsBP6

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2020-09-29

Beautiful! The 1767 edition of Mark Catesby's "A collection of 85 curious trees and shrubs, the produce of North America" at . Source via : https://t.co/g66InEwB1g

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2020-09-14

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

Adorable brown and white Norfolk or water spaniel painted by George Stubbs in 1778 at ! Stubbs was most famous for his paintings of animals, especially horses, and studied their anatomy: https://t.co/On4RZO0YIL

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2020-08-31