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October 1, 2021
Weather affects our everyday lives. We look it up before we go outside, to work, or to school. Today, we can check weather forecasts on...
September 23, 2021
Once I had solved the problem of resewing John Blair’s Chronology and History of the World from Creation to the Year of Christ, 1788, which...
September 16, 2021
The American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum exhibition, Dr. Franklin, Citizen Scientist, explores the obstacles and opportunities people without formal training can face when trying...
September 9, 2021
After the Second World War, countries all over the world – old and new – sought to extend the benefits of modern medicine to a...
September 1, 2021
Did you read that title more than once? If you did, there is no pirate-like mischief about it! A boat is docked in the Society’s...
August 26, 2021
Grace Hopper (1906-1992) was a pioneer in coding, and an innovative system builder who concentrated on building compilers and generators—the tools that later supported the...
August 20, 2021
The sketchbooks of Sir Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975) are digitized in their entirety and available to view in the APS digital library. Huxley was a...
August 11, 2021
Header Image: Ludovico Lipparini. Archbishop Germanos III of Old Patras raising the flag of the Revolution in Kalavryta. 1838. Hand-painted lithograph. Courtesy of the National...