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July/August 2016
Leonhard Euler was the presiding genius at the courts of Peter, Frederick and Catherine the Great
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April 2016
An Indian genius had little formal education but his findings astounded Cambridge mathematicians
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December 2015
A new centre dedicated to horology is an unmissable chance to keep the nation’s town clocks working
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November 2015
The greatest scientists, such as Einstein, often made their greatest discoveries by thought experiments
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