Stories by benbreen

The Dust That Measures All Our Time

Adventures of a Mathematician brings an unsung scientist back into the light

Darwin’s Barnacles

A Modest Apology for the Man in the Bottle (1749)

The Creeps of the Cosmos (2017)

Adolf Schmidt’s Atlas der Diatomaceenkunde (1890)

Scientists test medieval gunpowder recipes with 15th-century cannon replica

Seventy-Seven Cents on the Thaler? Women’s Wages in the Middle Ages (2016)

Humans as geomorphic agents: Lidar detection of Teotihuacan Valley, Mexico

Essay: The Digital Death of Collecting

Epiousios

One Giant Leap for Tortoise-Kind

A Treatise on Artificial Limbs (1899)

Details of rare bronze age coffin found in golf course pond revealed

Musaeum Clausum

In the Memory Ward: Britain's most eccentric and original library (2015)

The House of Fame

Epic Iran: Some Zoroastrian Treasures

Alchemy and the Laboratory (2015)

How the index helps us to understand, categorise and engage with the world

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