Archive: 2017

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   — 1st March 2017

   Digiti-Lingua

   or the most compendious, copious, facile and secret way of silent converse ever yet discovered Published in London in 1698, Digiti-Lingua is a milestone in the history of sign language....

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   — 19th January 2017

   The wondrous transformation of caterpillars and their remarkable diet of flowers

    ‘In my youth, I spent my time investigating insects.’ Maria Sybilla Merian (1647 – 1717) died 300 years ago this month. This remarkable woman, who was born into a 17th...

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   information as material

     It’s always a thrill to add a collection to the Library, whether this is an archive or a set of printed works. Individual items have their place but we...

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4. 

   — 5th January 2017

   The Ancoats Brotherhood

    You will do the greatest service to the state ‘If you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens; for it is better that...

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