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Osgood Carleton
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Wednesday, January 08, 2025
Cancer Curers in Boston in 1790
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Today we think about cancer at a cellular level. In the eighteenth century, cancers were visible growths, usually breaking out of healthy sk...
Tuesday, January 07, 2025
Osgood Carleton’s Cancer Cure
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Mathematics lessons , schoolbooks, almanacs, maps , and surveying and design services weren’t all that Osgood Carleton advertised to the go...
Monday, January 06, 2025
“He lost some of the country dialect”
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Osgood Carleton , the cartographer mentioned yesterday , advertised a lot in Boston newspapers between 1787 and 1808. In those years he ha...
Sunday, January 05, 2025
Mapping Boston in 1795
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ARGO (American Revolutionary Geographies Online) offers a new article by John W. Mackey titled “Practical Knowledge and the New Republic.” ...
Monday, June 02, 2014
Bosse on Massachusetts Maps in Lexington, 7 June
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On Saturday, 7 June, the Scottish Rite Masonic Museum & Library in Lexington will host a lecture by David Bosse, Librarian and Curat...
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