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Joseph Wright’s 1768 painting,
An Experiment on a Bird in the
Air Pump, shows a travelling
lecturer demonstrating Robert
Boyle’s famous vacuum-creating
instrument to a (mostly)
captivated audience
From the early calculator that helped merchants
do complex sums in seconds to the x-ray that unlocked
the secrets of DNA, Patricia Fara introduces objects
that have transformed our understanding of the
ALAMY world (and universe) over the past 500 years
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