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In search of…Thomas Harriot (c.1560-1621)
The scientist and adventurer Thomas Harriot (c.1560–1621) caught our eye back in the 2009 Year of Astronomy, when his telescope observations of the Moon – pre-dating those of Galileo by several months – were celebrated. At the time, we visited the Bank of England‘s foyer plaque, which marks the approximate site of Harriot’s original burial place. Now Harriot is on […]
In search of … George Price (1922 – 1975)
June 20, 2011
We recently watched Adam Curtis’s latest documentary series, All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace, in which his narrative thread weaves its way from Objectivist philosopher Ayn Rand and Silicon Valley, to Richard Dawkins and the selfish gene. Curtis’s work is always worth watching, although his love of knitting together long sequences of smorgasbord-style archival imagery, […]
Bloomsbury Bytes
- Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill @ Doughty St May 16, 2013
- In Search of Classical Greece April 3, 2013
- View of the week: UCL’s Institute of Making March 16, 2013
July 26, 2012
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