I would love to know more about this poltergeist (?) mystery from 1874, which was investigated by the distinguished US entomologist Philip Reese Uhler. Frustratingly, I can find no further trace of this strange story! pic.twitter.com/kYxJXOoH9P
— Thomas Morris (@thomasngmorris) September 30, 2020
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on: September 30, 2020 at 12:15PM
Another gem from the same collection is this timeless image of a woman thinking about what to write in her wax tablets. pic.twitter.com/GyIHsv2lLX
— Thomas Morris (@thomasngmorris) August 20, 2019
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on: August 20, 2019 at 04:21PM
One of the earliest surviving images of surgery: the physician Japix removes an arrow from the thigh of Aeneas. A fresco painted in the 1st century AD, and discovered in the ruins of Pompeii in 1825. From the collections of @MANNapoli in Naples. pic.twitter.com/FJK4imSsez
— Thomas Morris (@thomasngmorris) August 20, 2019
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on: August 20, 2019 at 04:19PM
This is unquestionably one of my favourite second-hand book acquisitions of recent times. pic.twitter.com/svdVKTdObs
— Thomas Morris (@thomasngmorris) April 16, 2019
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on: April 16, 2019 at 10:16AM
The best thing I learned today was that it is possible for an object to go into orbit around empty space. It's called a halo orbit, and involves Lagrange points.https://t.co/jdCDe6UjqF
— Thomas Morris (@thomasngmorris) February 14, 2019
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on: February 14, 2019 at 01:53PM
This is George and Charlotte Blonsky's Apparatus for Facilitating the Birth of a Child by Centrifugal Force. A patent from 1965 that has left me speechless. pic.twitter.com/sPeQ5gYVrR
— Thomas Morris (@thomasngmorris) April 25, 2018
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on: April 25, 2018 at 01:15PM
…great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was this chap: Yaroslav the Wise. http://pic.twitter.com/BszuhNPyEO
— Thomas Morris (@thomasngmorris) October 18, 2017
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on: October 18, 2017 at 10:22AM
The self-opening coffin – and other strange inventions from the mind of the 19th-century physician Samuel Francis: http://j.mp/2lBy87n http://pic.twitter.com/8q7ml6OC0I
— Thomas Morris (@thomasngmorris) February 23, 2017
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on: February 23, 2017 at 08:07AM
A historic operation from 1912. One hopes that the headlines for a similar case today would be a bit more sensitive. http://pic.twitter.com/2UTk3Bmx9T
— Thomas Morris (@thomasngmorris) January 30, 2017
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on: January 30, 2017 at 10:16AM
The case of the luminous patients http://j.mp/2kD4vA8
— Thomas Morris (@thomasngmorris) January 29, 2017
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on: January 29, 2017 at 06:10PM