Joseph Priestly - Experiments and Observations on Different Kinds of Air, 1774-1776.
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Albrecht Dürer, Christ Among the Doctors - ca.1506.
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Sandro Botticelli, The Abyss of Hell, 1480.
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A Christian and a Muslim playing chess, late 1200s.
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Vladimir Nabokov - Butterfly Map. Drawing of a heavily spotted Melissa Blue, overlaid with the scale-row classification system he developed for mapping individual markings.
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Joseph Cornell - untitled. Flying machines, circa 1938
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Poem by Man Ray, 1924
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A PhD student of mine has recently done her qualifying examination with a work centering on certain epistemological views of the Chemical Revolution, and she did quite a lot of reading of Priestley and Lavoisier, as well as a few Phlogistonists
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