Early Modern Period (1450 - 1750)
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The African Burial Ground

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Innate episode one graphic crop

Origin Stories

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Cartoon of group of men dissecting bodies in an attic

The Anatomy Riots

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Photo of an old manuscript

The Newton Mess

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

Collecting Monstrosity

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Woodcut of medieval printers at work

Would a Book Lie?

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Snakes and Letters

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Oil painting of an alchemical scene

The Masters of Nature

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The Age of Scurvy

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The Alchemist in His Study with a Woman Making Lace

The Art Detective

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A 16th-century engraving of an alchemist adding a scorpion to a mixture. (Wellcome Library)

The Language of Alchemy

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Walter Potter's Monkey Riding a Goat

Death and Taxidermy

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Haeckel illustration of hummingbirds

Information Overload

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Coloring Chemistry

Learn

Learn
Esperanto postcard

Speaking in Tongues

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Rare Books

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Portrait of Robert Boyle

Robert Boyle

Historical Profile

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Fine Art

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Liber de arte distillandi de compositis

Tryals and Tribulations

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Painting: An Alchemist’s Laboratory

Gold, Secrecy, and Prestige

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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 Secrets of Alchemy

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John Mayow’s “nitro-aerial particles” in action

Carried Away

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Title page of Boyle’s Sceptical Chymist

Alchemists, Unite!

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