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Exploration, Geography, and a British El Dorado
Chronicling the British pursuit of the legendary El Dorado, Masters of All They Surveyed tells the fascinating story of geography, cartography, and sc...
When Princeton historian D. Graham Burnett answered his jury duty summons, he expected to spend a few days catching up on his reading in the court wai...
The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature
In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon ho...
Lens Making Machines and Their Significance in the Seventeenth Century
In 1629, the natural philosopher René Descartes enticed a young artisan to undertake a secretive project, one that promised to revolutionize early mo...
A Book of Exercises
"The Virtual Sentence" is an exercise book for the era of ChatGPT. Its title is indebted to Gilles Deleuze, who uses "virtual" to name a reality that ...
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A 'Wunderkammer', or 'cabinet of curiosities', was an encyclopaedic collection of controversial, yet-to-be-defined objects, including Cyclopes, Siames...
Held at Philadelphia for promoting useful knowledge....