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In June of 1752, on the outskirts of Philadelphia, a forty-six-year-old printer named Benjamin Franklin walked into a gathering thunderstorm carrying a silk kite, a...
In June 1752, Benjamin Franklin and his son William walked to an open field on the outskirts of Philadelphia, carrying a silk kite fitted with...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed a telescope he had built himself toward Jupiter from Padua, Italy. What he saw puzzled...
On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei aimed his improved telescope toward Jupiter from his study in Padua, Italy. What he saw startled...
In the summer of 1687, Isaac Newton, a professor at Trinity College, Cambridge, published *Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica* — a work that revealed a single...
On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday sat in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London, wrapping copper wire around opposite sides of an...
In the summer of 1665, twenty-two-year-old Isaac Newton retreated to his family's farm at Woolsthorpe Manor in Lincolnshire, fleeing the Great Plague that had closed...
In the spring of 1877, a thirty-two-year-old Jesuit seminarian stood on the hills above the Vale of Clwyd in North Wales, watching light move across...
In 1929, astronomer Edwin Hubble analyzed the light from dozens of distant galaxies using the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, perched above Pasadena,...
On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday sat in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution on Albemarle Street in London, hunched over a simple iron...
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...
Along the windswept shore of Lyme Regis, Dorset, twelve-year-old Mary Anning gripped her hammer against the cold limestone cliffs in 1811. Her brother Joseph had...
In the winter of 1811, twelve-year-old Mary Anning knelt on the rain-slicked cliffs of Lyme Regis, Dorset, carefully chipping limestone away from an enormous skeleton...
On a cold night in 1929, Edwin Hubble sat in the observer's chair of the 100-inch Hooker telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, perched above Pasadena,...
In 1811, twelve-year-old Mary Anning knelt along the Blue Lias cliffs of Lyme Regis, Dorset, carefully chiseling limestone away from an enormous skeleton. Her brother...
In 1905, a twenty-six-year-old clerk at the Swiss Federal Patent Office in Bern submitted a paper to the journal *Annalen der Physik* that would reshape...
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 was spoken...
In the spring of 1905, a twenty-six-year-old patent clerk in Bern, Switzerland, sat at his desk evaluating inventions by day and scribbling equations by night....
On August 29, 1831, Michael Faraday bent over a simple iron ring in his basement laboratory at the Royal Institution in London. He had wound...
In June of 1752, Benjamin Franklin walked into a gathering thunderstorm outside Philadelphia with a silk kite, a hemp string, an iron key, and a...
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 published Charles Darwin's *On the Origin of Species* in London, and the entire first printing of 1,250 copies was...
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....