Stories by Petiver

Collecting the World by James Delbourgo – The Life of Hans Sloane

Hilary Putnam’s most surprising philosophical shift began at home

Human Forms in Nature: Ernst Haeckel’s Trip to South Asia and Its Aftermath

The Great Man Paradox

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

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