Images Dated 9th December 2013

An anti-government protester gestures below a Thai national flag as he stands on a

An anti-government protester gestures below a Thai national flag as he stands on a barricade at the Government House in Bangkok December 9, 2013. Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra dissolved parliament on Monday and called a snap election, but anti-government protest leaders pressed ahead with mass demonstrations seeking to install an unelected body to run the country. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (THAILAND - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Baby feeder, 19th century C018/7121

Baby feeder dating from nineteenth century England. This would be filled with liquid food or pap (usually a combination of milk, bread, flour and sugar) which the infant could suck through the teat-like spout. This was supplementary to breast feeding. This feeding bottle is ceramic, transfer printed with a blue and white pattern

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Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer C018/7016

Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594). 1870 engraving of the Flemish cartographer, philosopher and mathematician Gerardus Mercator, measuring a globe with a pair of dividers. Mercator, born Gerard de Kremer, is considered the founder of modern cartography. He is best known for his world map of 1569, in which he plotted meridians of longitude as parallel instead of converging at the poles. This allowed navigators to plot their course as a straight line of constant heading, corresponding to a great circle on the globe. He was also the first to use the term Atlas for a collection of maps

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