Pantechnicon van Pantechnicon van A Pantechnicon van, currently usually shortened to pantec, was originally a furniture removal van drawn by horses and used by the British company "The Pantechnicon" for delivering and collecting furniture which its customers wished to store. The name is a word largely of British English usage. The word "Pantechnicon" is an invented one, formed from the Greek "pan" ("all") and "techne" ("art"). It was originally the name of a large establishment in Motcomb Street, Belgravia, London, opened around 1830. It combined a picture gallery, a furniture shop, and the sale of carriages, while its southern half was a
On a Piece of Chalk gave a favorable review for "On a Piece of Chalk", writing: In April 2015, physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg included "On a Piece of Chalk" in a personal list of "the 13 best science books for the general reader". On a Piece of Chalk On a Piece of Chalk was an 1868 lecture by Thomas Henry Huxley to the working men of Norwich during a meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. It was published as an essay in "Macmillan's Magazine" in London later that year. The piece reconstructs the geological history of Britain from a