Stories by Petiver

Order Amid Chaos: A poet-scientist considers the imponderables of existence

The Lasting Lessons of John Conway’s Game of Life (2020)

A man who printed the world of plants

An Archeologist’s Guide to Beer Cans

How religion shaped modern economics

Most Execrable and Abominable or Irreligious: When Pope Clement Tested Poisons

Baby Megalodons Were 6-Foot-Long Womb Cannibals, Study Suggests

Edward the Confessor, a model of piety, was a surprisingly effective ruler

Two Darwin Notebooks, Missing for Decades, Were Most Likely Stolen

The Horseshoe Crab: Same as It Ever Was?

Quantifying Vitality: The Progressive Paradox

The Orkney Finnmen Legends: From Early Modern Science to Modern Myth

When the English Witnessed Battles in the Sky

Sexual Eeling

The Uncertain Heavens: Christiaan Huygens’ Ideas of Extraterrestrial Life

Christopher Strachey’s Nineteen-Fifties Love Machine (2017)

Is a Turtle an Animal or a Fish?

The Promise of Freedom: Orlando Patterson’s Modern World

From the Seabed, Figures of an Ancient Cult

Frank Ramsey: A more human philosophy

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