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These spiders come from Micrographia (1665) by Robert Hooke. Check it out on our digital collections and zoom in really close!
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2020-10-21

Look at all this spectacular glassware! This illustration depicts a machine from the combustion of phosphorus and appears in the 1801 book Encyclopaedia Londinensis; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Literature. https://t.co/iNKRoditIj

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2020-08-18

in 1885, Louis Pasteur and his colleagues injected the first rabies vaccine into 9-year-old Joseph Meister, who had been severely bitten by a rabid dog 2 days before. The immunization was successful. https://t.co/sD3hOgOxiZ

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2020-07-06

Happy birthday, Virginia Apgar! This groundbreaking physician as born in 1909. Dr. Apgar designed the Apgar Score, which is still used today to evaluate the health of infants immediately after birth. https://t.co/kBnky8fk3V

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2020-06-08

Cement is boring, right? Not according to Helinews! This wacky illustration appeared on the cover of the spring 1966 issue of the in-house publication of Beckman's Helipot Division, which featured a two-page spread about cermet trimmers. https://t.co/78fgfNqKcT

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2020-05-22

This 1964 Iranian stamp commemorates the 1100th birthday of Abū Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyyā al-Rāzī, known as Rhazes, a Persian polymath, physician, alchemist, and philosopher. See more science-themed postage stamps from the collection. ▶️ https://t.co/iJi7guc3Gc

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2020-01-09

Linus Pauling was awarded the in chemistry in 1954. Learn more about his life and work: https://t.co/03PO0uUF6V

(Image: caricature of Pauling by J.C. Weller, 1931 https://t.co/veewV6JkR5)

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2019-10-30

Curious about the history of science in This we recommend giving our former research fellow a follow! She studies and mining in Mexico. (Image, American Vanadium Company mining camp in Peru, 1911.

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2019-09-15

Can you patent a living thing? The podcast team went looking to answer that question while putting together this story of the Oncomouse. https://t.co/cVlcJ7FVPZ

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2019-09-06

I don't know about you, but this periodic table always makes me feel a little wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey. But you don't have to be to see it! Just visit the digital collection. https://t.co/DgpDYdoZ19

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2019-09-04

Mendeleev presented the first periodic table of chemical elements to the Russian Physicochemical Society in 1869. To celebrate, we’re sharing alternative layouts of the table from the Edward G. Mazurs Collection of Periodic Systems Images in our

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2018-03-06