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The Sphere of Marcus Manilius
Deleuze’s Histoire et description du Muséum Royal d’Histoire Naturelle
Stephens’ Catalogue of British Insects
Apian’s Cosmographia
Francis Willughby, Ornithology
Using the Whipple collections
Exhibitions and Displays
Exhibitions and Displays overview
200 years of Scientific Publishing at the Cambridge Philosophical Society
Discovering Past Readers
Learning that Incomparable Art in The Most Famous & Ancient Metropolis
Prohibition of Science: Banned Books and the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
Beets, Beets, Beets: Cambridge and the Rise of British Sugar Beet
The Magic Lantern
Kelvin: More than just a unit of temperature
A Bird's-Eye View
Three Research Journeys
Three Research Journeys overview
World Pieces: America’s ‘Portrait’ and the Environmental View of Landsat
The Quest for “Perfect Truth”: Embodiment, Objectivity, and Cornelius Varley’s Graphic Telescope
Indigenous, authentic, obsolete? ‘Universal’ equinoctial sundials in late 19th century India
Conflicting Chronologies
Conflicting Chronologies overview
Geochronology
Egyptian Prehistory, Philology and the Bible
Britain in Egypt
Geology and Egyptian Antiquity
Establishing Predynastic Egypt
Acknowledgements
Curating the Chemical Elements
Curating the Chemical Elements overview
Julius Lothar Meyer
Meyer's First Table of Elements
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Theoretical Perspectives
References
Personifying Plague
Personifying Plague overview
Case One: A Civic Disease
Case Two: Plague in the Tropics
Case Three: Yersinia pestis
Marginalia
Marginalia overview
J F Fulton, A Bibliography of the Honourable Robert Boyle
F H Bradley, Appearance and Reality
F H Bradley, Essays on Truth and Reality
S Sutton, An Historical Account of a New Method for Extracting the Foul Air Out of Ships
J Ray, Synopsis Methodica Avium & Piscium
R Boyle, Medicinal Experiments
L Digges, A Geometrical Practical Treatise Named Pantometria
G C Young and W H Young, The Theory of Sets of Points
T H Huxley, Lessons in Elementary Physiology
Exploring Deep History
Exploring Deep History overview
James Parkinson, Organic remains of a former world
Georges Cuvier, Recherches sur les ossemens fossiles de quadrupèdes
Georges Cuvier and Alexandre Brongniart, Description geologique des environs de Paris
William Buckland, Reliquiæ diluvianæ
Mary Buckland, View of the Axmouth landslip
Scrope and von Leonhard, Volcanoes
Gideon Mantell, The geology of the south-east of England
Louis Figuier, La terre avant le deluge
Staging the History of Science
Staging the History of Science overview
Act I
Act II
Act III
...it is not difficult to define a BIRD
...it is not difficult to define a BIRD overview
Early Works
Wood's The Handy Naturalist
Charles Waterton
Traité élémentaire d'ornithologie
William Henry Hudson
Rennie and Stoner
Audubon
The postcards
Writing Science
Writing Science overview
Institutions de physique
A compendious system of astronomy
Conversations on chemistry
On the connexion of the physical sciences
7 divisions of Life
Studies in evolution and biology
A popular history of astronomy
The theory of sets of points
Exploring Anatomy Books
Exploring Anatomy Books overview
The anatomie of the bodie of man
The anatomy of the human body abridg'd
The anatomist's vade-mecum
Quain's anatomy
Sobotta's Atlas and Cunningham's Manual
Icones oculi humani
Anatomical studies of the bones and muscles
Great artists and great anatomists
The anatomy and philosophy of expression
Sir George Howard Darwin
Sir George Howard Darwin overview
A treatise on solid geometry
An elementary treatise on the lunar theory
The elements of the theory of astronomy
Thomson and Tait's Treatise on natural philosophy
Peter Guthrie Tait
Tides and Waves
Papers by William & James Thomson
The tides and kindred phenomena in the solar system
Satellite evolution
Colour Science
Colour Science overview
Robert Boyle and experiments on colours
Sir Isaac Newton's Opticks
A treatise on optics
James Clerk Maxwell
Colour measurement and mixture
Joseph Lovibond and the Tintometer
An elementary manual for students
Curiosities of light and sight
Microscopy in Print
Microscopy in Print overview
Microscopic illustrations
The microscope, and some of the wonders it reveals
Microscopy books by Mary Ward
Half-hours with the microscope
Microscopy and Mordecai Cubitt Cooke
Objects for the microscope
Exhibitions Archive
Exhibitions Archive overview
Reserve Gallery exhibition
Reserve Gallery exhibition overview
Rev. J.G. Wood
Phrenology Collection: Joseph Millott Severn
Phrenology Collection: George Combe
Robert Boyle Collection
19th-Century Pamphlets Project: Foster Pamphlet Collection
Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
Microscopes: 19th-century children’s books
Time
Darwin anniversary book display
Adventures in the unknown
Universal harmony and the Scientific Revolution
Universal harmony and the Scientific Revolution overview
Martianus Capella and Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Gregor Reisch and Robert Fludd
Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott
Francis Bacon and the Royal Society
Isaac Newton
Early 19th-century natural history and the diamond lens microscope
Isaac Newton and Newtonianism
Isaac Newton and Newtonianism overview
Newton and the scientific establishment
John Theophilus Desaguliers: popularising Newton
Newton for children: Tom Telescope
Newton for all
Newton for ladies
The steel hand in the velvet glove
Know thyself: phrenology in the Whipple Library
HPS Resources Guide
HPS Resources Guide overview
Directory of HPS-related special collections in the University of Cambridge
Directory of HPS-related special collections in the University of Cambridge overview
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