Julia Mansfield of Stanford University was a Dissertation Writing Fellow for 2013-2014. She has been awarded a Dissertation Completion Fellowship for 2014-2015 from the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations. Mansfield will be spending this fellowship year at the Center.
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These confection-like illustrations are actual representations of objects viewed under a polariscope, spotted in the title The microscope (1867) by Jabez Hogg. According to the text, “This plate is especially intended to illustrate the beautiful and gorgeous spectacle produced by polarized light on the various objects here grouped together. Image courtesy of Yale University.