Breakfast Links: Week of August 1, 2016
� Victorian fat-shaming: harsh words on weight from the 19thc.
� How the stethoscope transformed medicine 200 years ago.
� Those kids of 1818, staring mindlessly into their glass devices: the now-forgotten craze for kaleidoscopes.
� The floating pleasure worlds of Paris and Edo in art.
� Jane Austen's music collection is now digitized and available on line.
� Image: Timeless beauty: a German gaming pouch, c1675-1700.
� Carved skeletons, Elizabethan theater giants, and a cat: St Leonard's, Shoreditch, London.
� Eleanor Sidgwick, the original Victorian female ghostbuster.
� Spectators pictured "fanning" the flames of early baseball passion.
� A history of embarrassing presidential campaign logos.
� Image: Celebrate summer's lushness with this green brocade robe a la francaise, c1740s.
� In 1704, Isaac Newton predicted the world will end in 2060.
� Willa B. Brown, the first African American woman to earn a commercial pilot's license in 1937.
� Ghosts in the machine: the devices and daring mediums that spoke for the dead.
� Discovery of vast treasure-trove of fine textiles shows importance of fashion to Bronze Age Britons.
� The history of exhaustion.
� Image: "Is this you five years from now?" Advertisement selling cigarettes to women as a diet aid, 1920s.
� The art of cuisine: dining with the artist Toulouse-Lautrec and his wildly impractical but fascinating cookbook.
� Working in the Paris fashion industry 100 years ago.
� Analysis of an athlete's weight, pains, digestion, perspiration levels, and speed - in 1813.
� A now-lost 1820s house in New York once known as the "house of romance."
� Thomson's Guide to London, 1902.
� Seventeenth century doll houses weren't invented for children's play, but to show off wealth and teach domestic roles.
� Just for fun: Test your book smarts.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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