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Edited and introduced by Bill Bryson, and with contributions from Richard
Dawkins, Margaret Atwood, David Attenborough, Martin Rees and Richard Fortey ...
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spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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Seeing Further ed by Bill Bryson: review
On the evening of November 28 1660, only a few months after the Restoration brought Charles II to the throne and ended 18 years of civil war, persecution and dangerous political upheaval, 12 men met after a lecture by the Gresham Professor of Astrono ... (read full critics)
telegraph.co.uk published on Thu, 16 Sep 2010
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Array of luminaries
In November 1660, on a damp night at Gresham College in London, a young shaver named Christopher Wren gave a lecture on astronomy. In the clearly appreciative audience were 12 ‘prominent gentlemen’, who in discussions afterwards, possibly over a drin ... (read full critics)