Stories by Petiver

What Is Incoherence?

The Geometry of Other People

What Was the Biggest Art Theft in History?

The Early History of the Channel Tunnel

The Crypt of Civilization (2006)

How to Lose a Library

The First Costume Book: 1562

Lake Tanganyika's Scale Eating Fish

The naked reader: Child enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries fresco

The Reluctant Levitator: Teresa of Avila's Humble Raptures

If you plant milkweed, they will come

Collection Cost: Eighteenth-century British naturalists in west Africa

Orthographic Depth

The Details Are in the Devil’s Tumors

Fluorescent mammals are far more common than earlier thought

Naturalists Unknown: Lives marked by discovery and erasure

The possibly never-ending quest for the golden owl

Open Air Schools of the 1900s

The curious incident of the dog and the palm tree (2015)

Health risks of travel in early-modern Britain

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