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In the summer of 1665, plague swept through London and shuttered the University of Cambridge. A twenty-three-year-old Isaac Newton retreated to his family's farm at...
The Apostle Paul speaks of a fundamental constraint upon human perception.
In February 1869, Dmitri Mendeleev sat in his study at the University of St. Petersburg, wrestling with a professor's ordinary problem: how to organize his...
In the spring of 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins walked the hills above the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales, where he was completing his theological...
On November 24, 1859, John Murray's publishing house in London released 1,250 copies of Charles Darwin's *On the Origin of Species*. Every copy sold on...
In May 1877, Gerard Manley Hopkins stood on the grounds of St. Beuno's College in North Wales and watched a kestrel ride the morning wind....
In 1929, astronomer Edwin Hubble sat in the observer's chair of the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, perched above Pasadena, California. For years...