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      <title>Mathematics and the Medici: Insturments from Late Renaissance Florence and a British Connection</title>
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        <![CDATA[James Franklin - The 16th-century instruments in the Museum of the History of Science in Florence provide one of the most attractive records of contemporary mathematics, significant for having been formed in the period, rather than assembled later by a museum or a]]>
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      <title>Now the dust has settled: A view of Robert Hooke post-2003</title>
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        <![CDATA[James Franklin - The tercentenary in 2003 of Hooke's death saw a flurry of publications, media interest and discussions related to his life and work. Have those events changed our understanding of Hooke? If so, how and why? Some answers are proposed.]]>
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      <title>Scientific hardware of the past</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - Scientists many years ago came up with, by today’s standards, fantastical-sounding names for their curious-looking equipment: electrified spangled tubes, dudgeon-type sphygmograph, cometarium. These bygone tools, on permanent display at Harvard University's Putman Gallery, often look more like works of art]]>
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      <title>Richard Carter, FCD</title>
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        <![CDATA[Richard Carter, FCD - ]]>
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      <title>In which a discovery is retrospectively chased but not quite captured</title>
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        <![CDATA[Jennifer Rohn - The history of our fair profession is riddled with stories. First and foremost are the journal articles themselves, which seek – in their own characteristically arid way – to describe an incremental advance and thereby place it into the context]]>
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      <title>Marco Boscolo</title>
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        <![CDATA[Marco Boscolo - ]]>
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      <title>Hanne Andersen</title>
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        <![CDATA[Hanne Andersen - ]]>
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      <title>David Dobbs</title>
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        <![CDATA[David Dobbs - ]]>
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      <title>In celebration of the father of taxonomy; in other news, lung cancer genomics and synthetic biology Olympics</title>
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        <![CDATA[Corie Lok - If you’re into the history of science, head over to the "Harvard Museum of Natural History":http://www.hmnh.harvard.edu/lectures_and_special_events/index.php#linnaeus tomorrow. In celebration of the 300th birthday year of "Carl Linnaeus":http://www.linnaeus2007.se/carllinnaeus/linnaeuslifeandachievements.4.44d172dc10f76d2e37e80008913.html—the 18th century Swedish naturalist who came up with the world’s first scientific classification]]>
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      <title>Who was the first scientist?</title>
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        <![CDATA[Brian Clegg - A few years ago I took part in a debate at the Royal Institution on 'who was the first scientist?' Lewis Wolpert championed Archimedes, I stood up for Roger Bacon (not entirely surprising having written a book about him called]]>
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