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EDITORIAL Calculus, chemical elements, aeronautical engineering,
Editor Rob Attar planetary motion, metallurgy, computing, quarks and bosons
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– to the layperson, the evolution of such complex concepts
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Production editor Spencer Mizen and technology can set the head spinning. But it’s not rocket science
Sub-editor Jane Williamson (except, of course, rocket science!). The story of science and technology
Picture editor Samantha Nott is, like all history, a narrative dominated by people, not just atoms and
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equations. This special edition of BBC History Magazine introduces the
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men and women whose ideas and innovations shape our world today.
Additional work by Katherine Hallett,
Matt Elton, Susanne Frank, Rachel Dickens, We meet Greek and Roman philosophers, mathematicians and
Rosemary Smith, Emma Mason, Ellie Cawthorne, engineers who pioneered geometry, physics and geography – as well as
Elinor Evans, Everett Sharp, Paul Bloomfield gadgets ranging from automated statues to astronomical computers.
And we explore the lives and work of scientists who became household
names – Plato and Newton, Galileo and Einstein.
We also celebrate the inventors and developers of technologies that
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