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Natural Philosophy
Photo of an old manuscript

The Newton Mess

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Science history photo collage

Love, Hate, and Sex from the History of Science

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Photo illustration of woman with migraine

Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

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The Philosopher’s Quest

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Letter written by 17th-century scientist Lady Ranelagh

The Almost Forgotten Story of Katherine Jones, Lady Ranelagh

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Mark Waddell

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Hiro Hirai

Hiro Hirai

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Bruce Moran

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James R. Voelkel headshot

James R. Voelkel

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The New Science board game

New Science, Old Tricks

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Detail from An Alchemist’s Laboratory

Gold, Secrecy, and Prestige

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John Dalton, F.R.S., engraved by William Henry Worthington after an 1814 painting by William Allen, published June 25, 1823, in Manchester and London. Note the charts with Dalton’s atomic symbols lying on the table.

John Dalton
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Lavoisier. Engraved by François Séraphin Delpech, after a drawing by Belliart, after the painting by Jacques Louis David.

Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier
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Joseph Priestley
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Transmutations: Alchemy in Art
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The Whole of Nature and the Mirror of Art
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Making a homunculus from an 1899 edition of Goethe's Faust

Man Made: A History of Synthetic Life

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Science and the Supernatural in the 17th Century

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Francesco Redi

True Science, Fake History

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Recipes and Extracts on Alchemy, Medicine, Metal-Working, Cosmetics, Veterinary Science, Agriculture, Wine-Making, and Other Subjects

The Philosophers’ Stove

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The Alchemical Quest

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Query 31 in Opticks

Last Words

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Novum Organum

Roads to Revolution

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Engraving of Robert Boyle, by John Faber Jr.

The Natural History of Robert Boyle

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Alchemy

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Detail of frontispiece from The Herball or Generall Historie of Plantes

London Calling

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Woodcut of Abu Mūsā Jābir ibn Hayyān

A Revolution in the Scientific Revolution

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Paracelsus Portrait

Paracelsus, Healer of the German Reformation

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Ibn Butlan’s Risalat da`wat al-atibba

Al-Kimiya: Notes on Arabic Alchemy

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