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<p><b>Cover image</b><br>Detail from ‘A balloon prospect from above the clouds’.</p>
<p><b>Description</b></p>
<p>Cloudscape and view of the Earth with a line representing the flight path of the balloon from which the scene was taken. The illustration was captioned by the author: “A Balloon-prospect from above the clouds or a chromatic view of the country between Chester, Warrington and Rixton-Moss in Lancashire: shewing the whole extent of the aerial voyage; with the meandering track of the balloon thro’ the air.</p>
<p>Plate 3 from <i>Airopaidia: containing the narrative of a balloon excusion from Chester</i>...by Thomas Baldwin (J.Fletcher, Chester, 1786). Inscribed above: “To face page 154 of Airopaidia”. Inscribed below: “T.Baldwin Arm. delt. et pinx. Angus sculp. A BALLOON PROSPECT from ABOVE the CLOUDE see page IIIc. Publish’d May 1st 1786, by T.Baldwin Chester.”</p>
<p>Thomas Baldwin made a pioneering flight from Chester on 8 September 1785 sketching the landscape as he travelled. The balloon belonged to the Italian aeronaut Vincenzo Lunardi (1759-1806).</p>
<p>Credit Royal Society.</p>

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Notes and Records

Notes and Records is an international journal which publishes original research in the history of science, technology and medicine. In addition to publishing peer-reviewed research articles in all areas of the history of science, technology and medicine, Notes and Records welcomes other forms of contribution including: research notes elucidating recent archival discoveries (in the collections of The Royal Society and elsewhere).

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Plant alchemy, Paracelsianism and internal signature theory in the writings of Guy de La Brosse (1586–1641)

Classification, Observational Practice, and Henry Seebohm’s The Birds of the Japanese Empire in Late-Victorian Britain

Decolonizing Veterinary History: On the benefits of telling the story of Dr Jotello Soga, the first South African veterinarian

Harvesting Underground: (re)generative theories and vegetal analogies in the early modern debate on mineral ores (I)

Plant alchemy, Paracelsianism and internal signature theory in the writings of Guy de La Brosse (1586–1641)

Classification, Observational Practice, and Henry Seebohm’s The Birds of the Japanese Empire in Late-Victorian Britain

Decolonizing Veterinary History: On the benefits of telling the story of Dr Jotello Soga, the first South African veterinarian

Harvesting Underground: (re)generative theories and vegetal analogies in the early modern debate on mineral ores (I)

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On The Origin of Species: The story of Darwin's title

The 1919 eclipse results that verified general relativity and their later detractors: a story re-told

Newton's financial misadventures in the South Sea Bubble

Understanding Eunice Foote's 1856 experiments: heat absorption by atmospheric gases

The discovery of microorganisms by Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Fellows of The Royal Society

Mind the gap: did Darwin avoid publishing his theory for many years?

Poisson's ratio over two centuries: challenging hypotheses

Darwin's illness: a final diagnosis

The discovery of surface-enhanced Raman scattering

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Professor Anna Marie Roos

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Plant alchemy, Paracelsianism and internal signature theory in the writings of Guy de La Brosse (1586–1641)

Classification, Observational Practice, and Henry Seebohm’s The Birds of the Japanese Empire in Late-Victorian Britain

Decolonizing Veterinary History: On the benefits of telling the story of Dr Jotello Soga, the first South African veterinarian

Harvesting Underground: (re)generative theories and vegetal analogies in the early modern debate on mineral ores (I)

Plant alchemy, Paracelsianism and internal signature theory in the writings of Guy de La Brosse (1586–1641)

Classification, Observational Practice, and Henry Seebohm’s The Birds of the Japanese Empire in Late-Victorian Britain

Decolonizing Veterinary History: On the benefits of telling the story of Dr Jotello Soga, the first South African veterinarian

Harvesting Underground: (re)generative theories and vegetal analogies in the early modern debate on mineral ores (I)

Aims and scope

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On The Origin of Species: The story of Darwin's title

The 1919 eclipse results that verified general relativity and their later detractors: a story re-told

Newton's financial misadventures in the South Sea Bubble

Understanding Eunice Foote's 1856 experiments: heat absorption by atmospheric gases

The discovery of microorganisms by Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Fellows of The Royal Society

Mind the gap: did Darwin avoid publishing his theory for many years?

Poisson's ratio over two centuries: challenging hypotheses

Darwin's illness: a final diagnosis

The discovery of surface-enhanced Raman scattering

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