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Robert Duncan, the Ambassador from Venus a biography /
Published 2012An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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The hunt after Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour : patronage, politics, art, and the French Enlightenment /
Published 2011Table of Contents: “…The hunt for Jeanne-Antoinette de Pompadour : beyond the Toilet of Venus -- Pompadour at the Court of Versailles -- Pompadour and diplomacy -- Pompadour and artistic patronage -- Pompadour in a culture of enlightenment -- The Pompadour paradox.…”
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Before Victoria extraordinary women of the British Romantic era /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Mary Robinson, eighteeth-century romantic -- Exemplary women : Mary Wollstonecraft, Hannah More, and their worlds -- Not quite good enough : three imperfect lives -- The modern Venus, or improper ladies, and others -- Strong passions of the mind : women in literature and the visual arts -- Rational dames and ladies on horseback : scientists and travelers -- The youngest romantics -- The Pforzheimer Collection and its female inhabitants : an afterword.…”
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Making medicine scientific John Burdon Sanderson and the culture of Victorian science /
Published 2002Table of Contents: “…From evangelical to medical officer of health -- Choosing medicine -- Medical officer of health -- Making a career in medical research -- Before the germ theory : the cattle plague of 1865-1866 and the state support of pathology -- From clinician-researcher to professional physiologist : making the pulse visible -- Becoming a research pathologist : the rise of laboratory medicine in Britain -- Focusing on physiology : capturing the venus's flytrap's electrical activity -- The medical sciences : critics and allies -- Physicians, antivivisectionists, and the failure of the Oxford School of Physiology -- A corner turned? …”
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