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, under Adriaen’s name, appear in different European collections. In his novel, Labatut attributes the work to Pieter.)
Regardless of who painted what, by the 19th century, Prussian blue had developed an artistic fan base as far away as Japan, where artists such asLos Angeles County Museum of ArtAnd that’s just the beginning of the story for Prussian blue. Because when it’s combined with diluted sulfuric acid, it turns into, one of the deadliest poisons known to man.
“When We Cease to Understand the World” is inspired by scientific history, but it is not a straight historical account. It is a novel. And if at first it reads like a collection of essays about the history of science, as the book progresses, it expands into more metaphysical and mystical spaces — all of which are ultimately woven together with the appearance of a mysterious character called “the night gardener.
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