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Made in Taiwan? How a Frenchman Fooled 18th-Century London
Illustrating Carnival: Remembering the Overlooked Artists Behind Early Mardi Gras
Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe
Brief Encounters with Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck
Flash Mob: Revolution, Lightning, and the People’s Will
Race and the White Elephant War of 1884
Out From Behind This Mask
Decoding the Morse: The History of 16th-Century Narcoleptic Walruses
Woodcuts and Witches
Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams
A Queer Taste for Macaroni
George Washington: A Descendant of Odin?
“Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination
Richard Hakluyt and Early English Travel
The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform
“Unlimiting the Bounds”: the Panorama and the Balloon View
“For the Sake of the Prospect”: Experiencing the World from Above in the Late 18th Century
The Secret History of Holywell Street: Home to Victorian London’s Dirty Book Trade
Frankenstein, the Baroness, and the Climate Refugees of 1816
George Washington at the Siamese Court
Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments
Forgotten Failures of African Exploration
When Chocolate was Medicine: Colmenero, Wadsworth, and Dufour
Julia Pastrana: A “Monster to the Whole World”
Illustrations of Madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
Piracy at the Old Bailey
Picturing Pyrotechnics
John L. Sullivan Fights America
1592: Coining Columbus
Darkness Over All: John Robison and the Birth of the Illuminati Conspiracy
Writing his Life through the Other: The Anthropology of Malinowski
Inside the Empty House: Sherlock Holmes, For King and Country
Encounter at the Crossroads of Europe — the Fellowship of Zweig and Verhaeren
Elizabeth Bisland’s Race Around the World
A Dangerous Man in the Pantheon
The Lost World of the London Coffeehouse
Re-examining ‘the Elephant Man’
Sir Arthur and the Fairies
Athanasius Kircher and the Hieroglyphic Sphinx
Vesalius and the Body Metaphor
Joseph Banks: Portraits of a Placid Elephant
Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits
Still Booking on De Quincey’s Mail-Coach
The Curious World of Isaac D’Israeli
The Forgotten Tales of the Brothers Grimm
Henry Morton Stanley and the Pygmies of “Darkest Africa”
Athanasius, Underground
Trüth, Beaüty, and Volapük
Mrs Giacometti Prodgers, the Cabman’s Nemesis
The Lancashire Witches 1612-2012
Conan Doyle’s Olympic Crusade
The First Olympic Protest
John Martin and the Theatre of Subversion
The Polyglot of Bologna
The Krakatoa Sunsets
The Assassination of the Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval
Painting the New World
The Unsinkable Myth
Remembering Scott
Lost Libraries
Phillis Wheatley: an Eighteenth-Century Genius in Bondage
An Unlikely Lunch: When Maupassant met Swinburne
The Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
Peter The Wild Boy
On Benjamin’s Public (Oeuvre)
Geronimo: The Warrior
Labillardière and his Relation
Was Charles Darwin an Atheist?
Bugs and Beasts Before the Law
The Life and Work of Nehemiah Grew
Tales from Tahiti
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Darwin’s Polar Bear
The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420
Pods, Pots, and Potions: Putting Cacao to Paper in Early Modern Europe
Master of Disaster, Ignatius Donnelly
Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath
W. B. O’Shaughnessy and the Introduction of Cannabis to Modern Western Medicine
Lofty Only in Sound: Crossed Wires and Community in 19th-Century Dreams
The Many Lives of the Medieval Wound Man
“Let us Calculate!”: Leibniz, Llull, and the Computational Imagination
Visions of Algae in Eighteenth-Century Botany
Copying Pictures, Evidencing Evolution
Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence
The Anthropometric Detective and His Racial Clues
Worlds Without End
The Science of Life and Death in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Notes on the Fourth Dimension
Richard Spruce and the Trials of Victorian Bryology
Bad Air: Pollution, Sin, and Science Fiction in William Delisle Hay’s The Doom of the Great City (1880)
Dr Mitchill and the Mathematical Tetrodon
When the Birds and the Bees Were Not Enough: Aristotle’s Masterpiece
Cat Pianos, Sound-Houses, and Other Imaginary Musical Instruments
Black on Black
Sex and Science in Robert Thornton’s Temple of Flora
Neanderthals in 3D: L’Homme de La Chapelle
When Chocolate was Medicine: Colmenero, Wadsworth, and Dufour
Julia Pastrana: A “Monster to the Whole World”
Illustrations of Madness: James Tilly Matthews and the Air Loom
Redressing the Balance: Levinus Vincent’s Wonder Theatre of Nature
“O, Excellent Air Bag”: Humphry Davy and Nitrous Oxide
The Naturalist and the Neurologist: On Charles Darwin and James Crichton-Browne
Frederik Ruysch: The Artist of Death
The Founding Fathers v. The Climate Change Skeptics
Olaus Magnus’ Sea Serpent
Writing his Life through the Other: The Anthropology of Malinowski
Alfred Russel Wallace: a Heretic’s Heretic
Proving it: The American Provers’ Union documents certain ill effects
Re-examining ‘the Elephant Man’
As a Lute out of Tune: Robert Burton’s Melancholy
Vesalius and the Body Metaphor
Joseph Banks: Portraits of a Placid Elephant
Mary Toft and Her Extraordinary Delivery of Rabbits
Athanasius, Underground
The Last Great Explorer: William F. Warren and the Search for Eden
The Krakatoa Sunsets
The Mysteries of Nature and Art
Aspiring to a Higher Plane
Robert Fludd and His Images of The Divine
Accuracy and Elegance in Cheselden’s Osteographia (1733)
American Kaleidoscope: Morton Prince and the Boston Revolution in Psychotherapy
Was Charles Darwin an Atheist?
John Muir’s Literary Science
The Life and Work of Nehemiah Grew
The Snowflake Man of Vermont
Ernst Haeckel and the Unity of Culture