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PEOPLE &

PERSON

1 A visionary of computing
The pioneering work of Ada Lovelace

1 Brunel: a hard taskmaster
The tyrannical side of the genius engineer

1 Plato’s morning routine
Stone Age beds to 19th-century cereal – how our ancestors started the day

1 Thomas Telford
The man who shaped Britain before Brunel

1 Science stories: Davy’s lifesaving lamp
How a simple innovation saved hundreds of lives

1 The Scottish Enlightenment

Glasgow, home of the 18th-century intellectual boom

1 Hidden figures

The African-American women who shone at Nasa

1 Science stories: Newton’s prisms

The discovery of the colour spectrum GETTY/HANDMADEMAPS.COM

1 Science curiosities

Fascinating facts from the history of science

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