Stories by Petiver

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

Asthma and the Civil Rights Movement

The Case for Not Being Born

Scientists Identify a Third Orangutan Species

Arsenic and Old Leeches

What Do We Do with Our Dead?

What Sewing Samplers Tell Us About Women’s Lives from the 17th to 19th Centuries

The Mystery Hiding in the Cracks of a 17th-Century Painting Has Been Revealed

“Peer review” is younger than we think

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