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Ancient Web: The History of Phrenology Preserved a Discredited Science in Primary Sources

John van Wyhe's History of Phrenology on the Web preserves nineteenth-century texts, images, people and terminology from a once-influential but discredited theory of the mind.

Ancient Web: Antique-Microscopes Preserved the Instruments Chemistry Used Before Electronics

A private collection of early scientific instruments documents spectroscopes, refractometers, polarimeters and chemical microscopes dating from the 19th and early 20th centuries.