Regency Science and Invention: the 1801 Census
With the US Census rapidly approaching, I am thinking about counting people and its origins. On March 10, 1801 the first British Census was held. Continue
With the US Census rapidly approaching, I am thinking about counting people and its origins. On March 10, 1801 the first British Census was held. Continue
La Belle Assemblee, 1806 The 17th century saw the first automaton devices coming into popular imagination. In the 18th century, the mechanical toy took off, Continue
Intelligent and driven, Orion Worthington aspired to be like his mentor, the acclaimed scientist Sir Geoffrey Blayne. Logically, Sir Geoffrey’s daughter would be Orion’s perfect Continue
This essay appeared in the June 1819 issue of La Belle Assemblee. Describing the language of birds, the naturalist author waxes poetical about tweets.