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Visit Philadelphia: History, Culture & Cocktails
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Ode to the Periodic Table

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Sanitation workers in masks in front of a garbage truck

The Why: A Camera, a Mask, and 2020’s Most Enduring Image
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A nurse in a mask

UWISHUNU: The Top Things to Do in Philly This Week & Weekend, November 2–8
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Bike delivery person in a mask

PhillyVoice: Photos of Essential Workers to Be Displayed by the Science History Institute
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Mask makers shown with a sewing machine and their dog

Science History Institute Debuts New Outdoor Exhibition
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A nurse in a mask

Between Us and Catastrophe
Museum
Cartoon of mechanic getting electricuted

Comics: Old-School Distance-Learning Tools

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Engraving showing tableau of injected vessel and infant skeletons by Frederick Ruysch,

Collecting Monstrosity

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Seated man holding brush, peering into microscope

Hashime Murayama and the Art of Saving Lives

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Saving Old Movies

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An early 20th century porcelain painting kit

Distilled #5: Porcelain Painting

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Object Explorer
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stereoscope with stereograph

Distilled #4: Virtual Reality in the 19th Century

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The Masters of Nature

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A detail of the inside cover art from the 1831 edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein.

Book Club: Frankenstein in the 21st Century

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Portrait of alchemist in his lab

Interview: Curator Elisabeth Berry Drago

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Photo of automaton hand drawing a picture on paper

Serious Fun

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The Alchemist and His Wife, ca. 1928, by Jacques Hammerer, after 17th-century original by David Ryckaert III.

Age of Alchemy
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Old Friends

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Sketch of a Scientist

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The Elements of Fiction

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Vintage poster of people watching TV

Sci-Fi Radio Drama

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Fit as a Fiddle: The Remarkable Lives of Cremonese Violins

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The Art of Memory

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Stradivari and the Search for Brilliance

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A Legacy of Listening

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Portrait of refugee doctor

Refugee Doctors

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Still image from Rethinking Ink animation

Rethinking Ink

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A History of Violence

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From Ancient to Art Nouveau

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Before and after of laser tattoo removal

Rethinking Ink

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Scent of Mystery ad

The Third Sense

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The Alchemist in His Study with a Woman Making Lace

The Art Detective

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Still Life

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Filippo Marinetti, 1934

Food Fight

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Just what is it . . . (1956)

Richard Hamilton’s Plastic Problem

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Walter Potter's Monkey Riding a Goat

Death and Taxidermy

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Tianna Uchacz

Tianna Uchacz

People

Nicole Elizabeth Cook

People
Vaughn Bell poses with her work Village Green.

Village Green
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Wind Map, created by Fernanda Viégas and Martin Wattenberg

Wind Map
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Calendar of Rain at the Sensing Change opening, 2013.

Calendar of Rain
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Diane Burko. Courtesy of the artist.

Waters: Glaciers and Bucks
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Roderick Coover at the Sensing Change exhibit opening, 2013

Estuary/Toxi*City
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Coloring Chemistry

#ColorOurCollections
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HighWaterLine, New York City. Courtesy of Eve Mosher.

HighWaterLine
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Particle Falls at the Wilma Theater, 2013.

Particle Falls
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Vaughn Bell poses with her work Village Green.

Home
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Waters: Glaciers and Bucks by Diane Burko.

Art
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Behind the Beaker
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Roald Hoffmann

Roald Hoffmann
Historical Profile

Plan Your Trip to the Museum
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Painting Like It’s 1699

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Photograph of Self Interest, Dove Bradshaw, New York, New York.

Self Interest

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Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum

A City’s Tale

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A 19th-century advertisement for dynamite by the Giant Powder Company.

Meeting the Miner’s Friend

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Framing Change

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King Charles II, founder of the Royal Society. Sir Peter Lely also painted Charles’s father, Charles I, and the man who replaced him, Oliver Cromwell. (the Institute Collections/Gregory Tobias)

King in the Hall

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Deborah Harkness

Facts and Fictions

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Jovana Grbic

Scripted Science

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Making Modernity exhibition at the Museum at CHF.

Making Modernity: A Gallery Preview

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Rebecca Kamen in her studio.

Reframing Science

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Calendar of Rain

Calendar of Rain

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Detail from An Alchemist’s Laboratory

Gold, Secrecy, and Prestige

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Artwork from the graphic novel Trinity

Graphic History

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Conversation Piece

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The Whole of Nature and the Mirror of Art
Museum

Collections
Collections
Making Modernity exhibition at the Museum at CHF.

On View
Museum

Transmutations: Alchemy in Art
Museum
Making Modernity

Making Modernity
Museum

Fine Art
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Comic Drama

Comic Drama: Illustrating the Manhattan Project

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The Alchemist in His Laboratory

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Louis Pasteur

The Artist in the Laboratory

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Mark of Pierre Viart

Of Woodcuts and Metalcuts

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Art Detectives

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Cloth of the World

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alchemical painting

Alchemy’s Rainbow: Pigment Science and the Art of Conservation

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Comic book panel

Drawing History: Telling the Stories of Science through Comics and Graphic Novels

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Double Vision

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Particle Falls

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Natrually dyed fibers

To Dye For

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Pure White Snow Zinc

Quest for Permanence

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Smoky Visions

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The Secrets of Alchemy

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The Unsuccessful Alchemists - Trying to Make Political Gold for Blaine out of Anti-Cleveland Dross (1887)

Political Potions

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Eugerres plumieri (striped mojarra) from the X-Ray Vision exhibition

The X Factor

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Waterworld

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Mujeres Celebres (“Famous Women”) comic

Stories of the Great Chemists

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Fairyland of Chemistry

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Mercer Museum. Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress (LC-HS503-1037)

Made in America

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Satirical illustration from Erwin Weinbrenner’s illustrated poem KZL und Morgenthau.

Factory to Farm

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The Platonic Solids

The Platonic Solids

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Pandora, That Is, the Noblest Gift of God

Pandora’s Secrets

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Detail from The Periodic Printmaking Project

The Periodic Table Printmaking Project

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Luminous Lives

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Cropped image of La Bella Principessa

The Da Vinci Question

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A gouache by Wilhelm Ostwald

Sweet Harmony

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Elements of Expression

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Back cover image of Louis Pasteur, Benefactor de la Humanidad.

Graphic Knowledge

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