1838
1673
Antonio van Leewenhook uses powerful lenses to build microscopes and observes bee mouth parts and stings. Two years later he is the executor of Jan Vermeer’s will.
1607
Hamlet is performed aboard the East India Company ship Red Dragon while anchored off the coast of Sierra Leone.
1838
American guns and the Trail of Tears
1673
Antonio van Leewenhook uses powerful lenses to build microscopes and observes bee mouth parts and stings. Two years later he is the executor of Jan Vermeer’s will.
1607
Hamlet is performed aboard the East India Company ship Red Dragon while anchored off the coast of Sierra Leone.
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The Visual Time Traveller is a unique creative endeavour. A visually arresting book by Alison Hackett and published by 21st Century Renaissance. The book is built around 500 years of History, Art and Science interpreted in 100 Unique Designs and is a breathtaking journey for the reader.
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It’s a relative question
“Frogs levitate in a strong enough magnetic field.” This fact was illustrated on a large advert and displayed on various bus shelters in Manchester and Liverpool in 2009. It was the result of a clever idea dreamt up by the outreach department of the Institute of...
My past life — working in the Central Bank (in shoulder pads)
Back in the early eighties (shoulder pads, unsure, skinny) while I was an undergrad at Trinity College Dublin studying Maths & Economics I managed to get myself a summer job as researcher in the Central Bank of Ireland on Dame street; my bosses were the now very...
The Physics Chanteuse
The year is 2000 and the month is November. Almost a year into my new position as the Institute of Physics Representative in Ireland, I find myself travelling to Switzerland with an Irish delegation of physics educators to attend a pan-European conference* being held...
