Came across a link to this project yesterday and thought it was so good it was worth putting together a quick blog entry. As the screenshot to the left suggests, there is a big box, you draw the LaTeX symbol you wish to find in the box using your mouse, and hey presto it gives you a selection of possibilities,…
Having a couple of hours to waste whilst in Oxford decided to visit the Natural History Museum for the first time in years to get some inspiration for my insect gait studies (I don’t think I’ve been there since I was a post-doc). I remembered the museum as having a particularly good entomology display, and had been singularly unimpressed by…
I spent an enjoyable day down in London on January 15th visiting the Tate Britain, and in particular the Muybridge exhibition which was due to finish the following day. The main reason for visiting was due to my ongoing interest in animal gaits (insects and other hexapods in particular), and the Muybridge animal locomotion photographs have been an inspiration for…
A continuing series of posts to highlight my small antique map collection. All scans are taken directlly from an original copy, not a reproduction. Map of England taken from James Bell’s “A System of Geography, Popular and Scientific, or a Physical, Political and Statistical Account of the World and its Various Divisions” published by Archibald Fullarton in Glasgow 1939. See…
