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Petiver

10,875karma·622submissions·December 2, 2014
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He called skippers "hogs", swallowtails "Royal Williams," walls as "Enfield Eyes," and marbled whites as "Half-Mourners."
recent activity (622 total)
12 pts
Threatened by Prejudices: French Revolutionary Textbooks(jhiblog.org)
10y ago·9 comments
33 pts
An Unnervingly Life-Like Japanese Doll from the 1800s(atlasobscura.com)
10y ago·7 comments
11 pts
Visions of Algae in Eighteenth-Century Botany(publicdomainreview.org)
10y ago·discuss
56 pts
How to Keep a Zibaldone, the 13th Century's Answer to Tumblr(atlasobscura.com)
10y ago·14 comments
13 pts
Architect with ALS designs a residence he can control with just blinks(statnews.com)
10y ago·discuss
11 pts
The Calcutta Pococurante Society: Public and Private in India’s Age of Reform(publicdomainreview.org)
10y ago·1 comments
53 pts
Love the Fig(newyorker.com)
10y ago·12 comments
17 pts
Cloud and Field: On the resurgence of “field guides” in a networked age(placesjournal.org)
10y ago·10 comments
17 pts
The History of Push-Button Cuisine(luckypeach.com)
10y ago·5 comments
54 pts
Brasília at Midnight(evenmagazine.com)
10y ago·74 comments
2 pts
How an obscure mycologist left her mark on fungi(atlasobscura.com)
10y ago·discuss
114 pts
How Exhaustion Became a Status Symbol(newrepublic.com)
10y ago·40 comments
26 pts
It Makes No Sense to Judge Groups of People by Their Histories of Invention(slate.com)
10y ago·19 comments
2 pts
The Card Maker Who Brought the Joker into the World(atlasobscura.com)
10y ago·discuss
1 pts
Six Centuries of Secularism(aeon.co)
10y ago·discuss
28 pts
War and Planets: Astronomical Tables in the History of Science(blogs.royalsociety.org)
10y ago·3 comments
1 pts
Over 600 years ago, Fiji was dramatically affected by changing sea levels(slate.com)
10y ago·discuss
2 pts
Where are the Scriptoria? (2013)(medievalbooks.nl)
10y ago·discuss
56 pts
An 18th Century North African Travelling Physician's Handbook(britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk)
10y ago·4 comments
29 pts
The all-conquering Wikipedia?(the-tls.co.uk)
10y ago·49 comments
3 pts
A new generation of doctor writers is investigating the mysteries of medicine(theguardian.com)
10y ago·discuss
65 pts
Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish populations have been rising since the 1960s. Why?(theatlantic.com)
10y ago·56 comments
7 pts
A Brief History of Drowning(psmag.com)
10y ago·1 comments
2 pts
The new book 'The Other Slavery' will make you rethink American history(latimes.com)
10y ago·discuss
42 pts
The Baked Possum(oxfordamerican.org)
10y ago·5 comments
95 pts
Humans are the highest energy apes, making us smarter but also fatter(sciencemag.org)
10y ago·22 comments
1 pts
Buddhist Sculptures Discovered in Ruins of Ancient Shrine(livescience.com)
10y ago·discuss
8 pts
Text Mining the History of Medicine(journals.plos.org)
10y ago·discuss
1 pts
To Save Something, We Have to Eat It(lareviewofbooks.org)
10y ago·discuss
1 pts
Map: Literally every goat in the United States (2015)(washingtonpost.com)
10y ago·discuss