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At 8:30 p.m. on the night of August 22, 1888, a "fireball" struck a hill near what's now Sulaymaniyah, Iraq. The blast ...
In the 19th century, an art form known as lithophanes was all the rage in Western Europe. These thin engravings were usually made from translucent materials like porcelain or wax.
On the other hand, there is a great deal in it from which scientific readers cannot fail to draw a very salutary lesson. Science and Scientists in the Nineteenth Century. By the Rev. Robert H. Murray.
Monstrosity in Medical Science: Race-Making and Teratology in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Isis , 2023; 114 (3): 513 DOI: 10.1086/726315 Cite This Page : ...
CHAR MILLER, TEXT IN CONTEXT: THE JOURNAL OF A NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICAN MISSIONARY, The Yale University Library Gazette, Vol. 66, No. 1/2 (October 1991), pp. 47-63 ... inspiring innovation, and ...
New website compiles ocean data from landmark 19th-century scientific voyage ... He discovered two journals in the museum’s collection that have never been referenced in any literature on the ...
As Tiger Woods and Mariano Rivera can tell you, anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears can prove to be a frequent and devastating injury among athletes, professional and amateur alike.
Lundgren noted a striking similarity between the abstract geometric shapes in af Klint's work and scientific diagrams in 19th century physicist Thomas Young's Lectures (1807).
C.W. Eckersberg's painting "The 84-Gun Danish Warship Dronning Marie in the Sound” contains beer byproducts in its canvas primer. Statens Museum for Kunst ...
19th Century Citizen Science Shows How the Climate Has Already Changed ... In a recent study in the Journal of Ecology, ... “It’s startling to imagine that there was a network of observers doing this ...