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Regency Science and Invention: the 1801 Census

By Anne | January 6, 2020 - 1:57 pm |January 24, 2020 Regency Science and Invention

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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 →

Regency Science and Technology: Maillardet’s Automaton

By Anne | November 28, 2018 - 10:55 am |December 11, 2018 Regency Men, Regency Science and Invention

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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 →

Celeste Bradley: I Thee Wed

By Anne | May 22, 2018 - 7:44 am |June 7, 2018 2-3 Flames, Book Review, Celeste Bradley

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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 →

Regency Science: Essay on the Language of Animals

By Anne | April 12, 2017 - 9:45 am |April 27, 2017 Regency Science and Invention

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This essay appeared in the June 1819 issue of La Belle Assemblee. Describing the language of birds, the naturalist author waxes poetical about tweets.