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Has anyone seen my Cabinet?

In March 1997, a replica of the HMB Endeavour arrived in the UK from Australia. Aboard was a hand-crafted Cabinet of Curiosities. The Cabinet was, I wrote at the time, ‘intended to evoke a sense of mystery. What is in the cabinet? What is its message?’ Some thirteen years later a further question remains unanswered [...]

Posted 16 November 2010 † tim § history of australian science ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , ,

A conspiracy reveal’d

Learned friends, a little over twelve months ago, I had the honour of addressing another distinguished gathering. My subject on that occasion was a rather unusual artefact that my colleagues and I had discovered – an item we came to call ‘The Cabinet of Curiosities‘. In the intervening months we have continued our researches into [...]

Posted 03 May 1998 † tim § history of australian science § speeches ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , , , ,