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Elaine Ayers

Elaine Ayers is a historian of science and art at Princeton University. She has written for Cabinet Magazine and The Public Domain Review among others, and is currently finishing her first book about the history of tropical botany, Strange Beauty.

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The Curiosity Corporation that Defined Colonialism

by Elaine Ayers July 15, 2019July 11, 2019

Rich with meticulous archival detail and more than 200 years of the East India Company’s history, Company Curiosities provides little in the way of argument or critical intervention, leaving the reader to interpret its vast expanse of material.

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Using AI to Produce “Impossible” Tulips

by Elaine Ayers March 1, 2019March 1, 2019

Anna Ridler uses AI to bring “tulipmania” into the future.

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