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  1. Performing in a different place: the use of a prodigy to the Dublin Philosophical Society.Paddy Holt - 2020 - British Journal for the History of Science 53 (3):371-388.
    From 8 February until at least 19 April 1686, the Dublin Philosophical Society was occupied with a prodigiously talented young girl whose name was never recorded. She was less than eleven years of age, but still much older than the society itself, which had begun meeting less than three years previously. Although one of many wonders engaging the curiosity of the nascent society, this girl served a surprising range of purposes, so that accompanying her anonymity was a curious malleability. Pressed (...)
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