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Rare milestone in history of science sells for more than £350,000 at Bonhams Book Sale

LONDON – A rare first edition of Robert Boyle’s The Sceptical Chymist, a milestone in the history of chemistry, sold at Bonhams, London on 25 March 2015 for £362,500. It had been estimated at £50,000-70,000. article via ArtDaily | featured image: It is the first book that combined chemistry with physics and paved the way for the work of…

the conflicting values of self-criticism

“We may not be able to imagine a life in which we don’t spend a large amount of our time criticising ourselves and others; but we should keep in mind the self-love that is always in play. Self-criticism can be our most unpleasant – our most sadomasochistic – way of loving ourselves.” Against Self-Criticism | Adam…

down and dirty fairy tales

How this rediscovered stash of darker-than-Grimm stories destroys our Prince Charming myths The translator of a newly discovered trove of 150-year-old tales on the gender-bending surprises found there article by Laura Miller | via Salon In 2012, readers around the world were intrigued to learn that a researcher in northern Bavaria had discovered hundreds of…

the starry messenger

VAN GOGH | A Power Seething | by Julian Bell | Illustrated. 163 pp. New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. $20. As a fledgling artist, Vincent van Gogh hired a carpenter to build a perspective frame: a wire-grid window. He used it to draw the Dutch countryside, his eyes darting between his pencil and the views through the frame….