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Middle Ages (400 - 1500)

Illustration of fairies around water

River Gods, Lake Monsters, and the Abiding Power of Myth

Distillations Article

Cartoon of a pig in a courtroom

Kangaroo (and Pig and Monkey and Dog and Donkey) Courts

Distillations Podcast

Screenshot from A Discovery of Witches TV show

What the All Souls Trilogy Teaches Us about Alchemy, Family, and Knowledge Hierarchy

Distillations Podcast

18th century mythological painting of Greek goddess Eos and Tithonus

Chasing Immortality

Distillations Podcast

C.C. Dennis using mortar and pestle at Dearborn laboratory

Science History Institute Debuts ‘Mechanochemistry: The Science of Crush’ Digital Exhibition

Press Release

Mock-up photo of a cellphone displaying a QR code

COVID-19 Health Passports: What’s Old Is New Again

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Genre oil painting

Quacks, Plagues, and Pandemics

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Photo illustration of woman with migraine

Sex(ism), Drugs, and Migraines

Distillations Podcast

Close up of Johannes de Sacrobosco’s astronomy textbook, De Sphaera Mundi (On the Sphere of the World).

Distilled #6: A 17th-Century (Interactive!) Astronomy Textbook

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Snakes and Letters

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Walter Potter's Monkey Riding a Goat

Death and Taxidermy

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Agnieszka Rec

Agnieszka Rec

People

Theodore W. Richards in the laboratory.

Theodore William Richards

Historical Profile

Deborah Harkness

Facts and Fictions

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Arabic astronomers

Seek Knowledge as Far as China

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