Stories by Petiver

The dwarfs of our vocabulary

Stargazing: The Invention of Celebrity, 1750–1850

Heretical Things Statistics Tell Us About Fiction

How Social Norms Are Like Chili Peppers

Paradise Possible

Genomes of straight-tusked elephants

Medieval Scholars Believed in the Possibility of Parallel Universes

Stupendous intelligence of honey badgers

The Animalcule: A Life of Thomas de Quincey

Mathematical Treasure: Robert Fludd’s History of the Macrocosm (2014)

Look back with danger: on nostalgia

Artifacts at an Exhibition: The Art and Science of Healing

The Long-Ignored Reptile Rewriting the Prologue to the Dinosaur Story

Ali Qushji

Foucault’s work on power

Milton Friedman’s Misadventures in China

We Need More ‘Useless’ Knowledge

The Factious, High-Drama World of Bird Taxonomy

Walt Disney's Dinosaurs: The Story of the Rite of Spring

“Other” Televisions at the New York World's Fair (1995) [pdf]

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