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JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post The following images relating to chemistry were found in the illustration volumes of Abraham Rees' (1743-1825) great work, Cyclopædia; or, Universal Dictionary of Arts ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post While flipping through William Herschel's 1801 Philosophical Transaction s paper "Observations tending to investigate the Nature of the Sun in order to find the Cause ...

1914 ANNALEN DER PHYSIK 44 (14): 916-934 Schrodinger E The dynamics of elastically coupled point systems 1914 PHYSIKALISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT 15: 79-86 Schrodinger E Acidity which produces interference ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1498 "Nabed Efyhik Wfnzo Cpmfke'"--Issac Newton, ca. 1660 So begins this extraordinary work known as the Fitzwilliam Manuscript1: Isaac Newton's name, plus for words on two ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1807 Part of the series The History of Blank, Empty and Missing Things Lewis Carroll created a lovely, simple cipher in the midst of his Alice and Snark and Logic a nd ...

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post This fantastic timeline of the U.S. Civil War (History of the Civil War in the United States, 1860-1865) was compiled by J. Kellick Bathurst, drawn by Edward Perrin, ...

JF Ptak Science Books Post 1676 ” [Smoking is] a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest ...

JF Ptak Science Books LLC Post 1018 “It is probably not worth putting (all) railways under ground.” Ed Teller, 1947 [See also our 50+-part Atomic & Nuclear Bomb series here] There is a universe of ...

Michel Jacquot seems to have been a relatively busy graphic designer/artist and collaborator with the Nazis during WWII (and before). One very striking and damning poster that he created was this ...

JF Ptak Science Books I think that it is difficult to overstate the importance and long-term significance of Dr. Seuss ' (Theodor Seuss Geisel, 1904-1991, son and grandson of brewmasters) contribution ...

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