There’s a reason England was able to harness geniuses like Isaac Newton
Excerpt: Loonshots In this excerpt from his new book, LOONSHOTS, Safi Bahcall explores the “loonshot nursery” of 17th and 18th century England. We’ve been looking at the global first-appearance question: why did modern science appear first in Western Europe as opposed to the empires of China, Islam, …
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