A brief history of science.
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| Title: | A brief history of science. |
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| Authors: | MARTIN REES |
| Source: | Independent (UK). 09/03/2020. |
| Abstract: | If we could time travel back to the 1660s – to the earliest days of the Royal Society – we would find Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke, Samuel Pepys and other “ingenious and curious gentlemen” (as they described themselves) meeting regularly. Their motto was to accept nothing on authority. They did experiments; they peered through newly invented telescopes and microscopes; they dissected weird animals. Their experiments were sometimes gruesome – one involved a blood transfusion from a sheep to a man. Amazingly the man survived. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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| Abstract: | If we could time travel back to the 1660s – to the earliest days of the Royal Society – we would find Christopher Wren, Robert Hooke, Samuel Pepys and other “ingenious and curious gentlemen” (as they described themselves) meeting regularly. Their motto was to accept nothing on authority. They did experiments; they peered through newly invented telescopes and microscopes; they dissected weird animals. Their experiments were sometimes gruesome – one involved a blood transfusion from a sheep to a man. Amazingly the man survived. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER] |
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