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Descent of Darwin: race, sex, and human nature
Erika Lorraine Milam, Suman Seth
BJHS Themes, Volume 6

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‘Constitutions selection’: Darwin, race and medicine
Suman Seth
BJHS Themes, Volume 6

William Petty’s survey of Ireland and the role of natural history in the development of statistics
22 January 2024, Svit Komel
William Petty (1623-1687) is well known as a pioneer of political economy and statistics. He has been often celebrated as an ingenious thinker who was among...

Van Leeuwenhoek – the film: remaking the origins of bacteriology
23 August 2023, Mieneke te Hennepe
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek (1632-1723) is universally acknowledged as the first person describing protozoa and bacteria using his self made microscopes. His seventeenth-century...

Anti-voluntarism, natural providence and miracles in Thomas Burnet’s Theory of the Earth
01 February 2023, Thomas Rossetter
In his Telluris Theoria Sacra and its English translation The Theory of the Earth (1681–90), the English clergyman and schoolmaster Thomas Burnet (c. 1635–1715)...

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Renaissance Quarterly

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The Board of Longitude
Alexi Baker, Richard Dunn, Rebekah Higgitt, Simon Schaffer, Sophie Waring