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Voices In Time

1789 | Paris

Matters of Fact

“We should proceed from known facts to what is unknown.”More

Voices In Time

1267 | Paris

Testing Grounds

The utility of experimental science.More

Voices In Time

1971 | Chicago

First Principles

Women get liberated, together. More

Voices In Time

1816 | London

Realms of Gold

“Then felt I like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken.”More

Voices In Time

1918 | Berlin

Preestablished Harmony

Albert Einstein in the temple of science.More

Voices In Time

1891 | Berlin

Happy Accidents

Solving a problem like climbing a mountain.More

Voices In Time

1571 | Seville

Holy Smoke

The mystical marvels of tobacco.More

Voices In Time

c. 80 | Antioch

Knock First

Seeking and finding in the Bible. More

Voices In Time

1911 | Yorkshire

Key to the Kingdom

Finding the door beneath the ivy.More

Voices In Time

c. 27 BC | Rome

Column Opinion

Vitruvius looks to the natural world.More

Voices In Time

1783 | London

Trial Balloon

“Balloons occupy senators, philosophers, ladies, everybody.”More

Voices In Time

1791 | Birmingham

Gag Rule

“We are the sheep and you the wolves.”More

Voices In Time

1899 | Colorado Springs

Life on Mars?

Nikola Tesla imagines a dialogue. More

Voices In Time

1934 | Harlem

Skin Game

The questionable science of changing colors.More

Voices In Time

c. 335 BC | Athens

Trading Places

A very Oedipal discovery.More

Voices In Time

1823 | Timisoara

A Whole New World

Every scientific struggle is a serious war.More

Voices In Time

2011 | Washington, DC

Tyranny of the Majority

The U.S. government on global warming. More

Voices In Time

1673 | Keokuk, IA

Missionary Imposition

Two Frenchmen in Iowa. More

Voices In Time

1666 | Blazing World

Seeing Is Believing

Margaret Cavendish delights in artificial delusions.More

Voices In Time

1665 | London

Through a Looking Glass

The indestructible fly.More

Voices In Time

1802 | Somerset

Pleasure Principle

Wordsworth and Coleridge on pain and pleasure. More

Voices In Time

c. 20 | Rome

Ends of the World

Is the world an island?More

Voices In Time

1849 | Downe

Names in Vain

Darwin trapped in “a perfect maze of doubt on nomenclature.”More

Voices In Time

1862 | Amherst, MA

Awe Inspired

Emily Dickinson on the pleasures of not creating. More

Voices In Time

1665 | Cambridge

True Colors

Isaac Newton is his own test subject.More

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