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September 12, 2022
Header image: Anna Clemencia Guerrero, a PhD candidate in history and philosophy of science at Arizona State University and inaugural Jacques Barzun Fellow, examines botanical...
September 6, 2022
Revolutionary City: A Portal to the Nation’s Founding is live and being updated regularly. Accessible at https://therevolutionarycity.org/, the portal has undergone many iterations and updates...
August 29, 2022
In my first post about Petrus Ramus’s 1636 Via Regia ad Geometriam—a geometry textbook with warped, broken wooden boards and mold-eaten leaves—I described the innovative...
August 22, 2022
George Washington Corner (1889–1981) was an American physician, anatomist, endocrinologist, embryologist, historian, and author. He is best known for his contributions to reproductive science, especially...
August 15, 2022
Header image: “Appearance of a Steeped Vat,” T reatise on the Process and Manufacture of Fine Indigo, 1832. British Library. Most research projects seem to...
August 1, 2022
As a member of the exhibitions team at the APS, I get the privilege of seeing these public-facing works go from idea to execution. But...
July 25, 2022
Header image: East Front Street, Nome Alaska, April 1909 Three photo albums recently came to the conservation lab, courtesy of two donors to the Society...
July 18, 2022
The Duhamel du Monceau/Fougeroux de Bondaroy Papers, currently held in the American Philosophical Society’s vault, include botanical drawings that are enjoyable to look at for...