Stories by Petiver

Centaur or fop? How horsemanship made the Englishman a man

Errol Morris on his movie, and long friendship, with Stephen Hawking

The Greenhouse Effect: Eco-friendly glass architecture that incorporates flora

Darwin's Beard and George Eliot's Hands

Don’t Mess with the Birds

The Connections Between Coffee and Biodiversity

Deluxe printing: Antoine Vérard’s 1498 illuminated Merlin

Cryptography: Or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing (1898)

The Long, Strange Legacy of One of the World’s Earliest Fake Mermaids

When Books Read You, a Defense of Bibliomancy

'I really want to find it before I die': why are we so fascinated by lost books?

The humble apron of the 18th century

When Whimsical Anti-Theft Tea Caddies Protected the World's Most Precious Leaf

The Dreams of an Inventor in 1420

'It Was the First Time I Cried in the Operating Room'

Of unicorns and other oddities: an 18th century Persian medical manual

Why humans need to rethink their place in the animal kingdom

The Spice of Life

The Person in the Ape

In the Middle Ages, the Upper Class Went Nuts for Almond Milk

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