Finally! Only GBP 30 and I'm proud owner of arsenical book!
How did I found it? #PoisonBookProject database and Google of European editions and voila - Ebay!
What I'm gonna do? Send it to lab to perform mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) to identify how many arsenic is inside the cover
#OnThisDay in 1818, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was 1st published. It's not been out of print since. Read Sharon Ruston on the scientific background to the novel incl. contemporary investigations into the possibility of states between life and death: https://t.co/m0nRrXFRV8 #otd
#OTD in 1864, the design Trellis was registered.
Trellis is the first wallpaper designed by William Morris and was inspired by the gardens at his home, Red House in Bexleyheath.
#WilliamMorris#Trellis#RedHouse#OnThisDay
“You are at all times independent. This absolute freedom of the cyclist can be known only to the initiated.”
An illustrated 1896 manifesto for the bicycle as an instrument of emancipation and joy https://t.co/CDnnqxHaQO
When your book visits more interesting places than you do.
Book about arsenical green with actual arsenical green pigments jars at Forbes Pigment Collection.
Just got my copy of @fy19cpl book on arsenic green, or rather 50 shades of it, and can't wait to read it! In the book you'll find all about the use of arsenic in dyes, poisonous paintings, interviews with scientists, and something from me: cute little humeri drawings! #histmed