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Sunday Feature New Generation Thinkers, New Generation Thinkers The Poetry of Science

Gregory Tate on the Poetry of Science

  • The manuscript of the poem Humphry Davy wrote
  • Humphry Davy's poem, 'The Spinosist'
  • James Gilray's cartoon satirising  Humphry Davy's laughing gas demonstrations at the Royal Institution.
  • Iggy McGovern (right) and presenter Greg Tate and the X-ray Photoelectron Spectrometer.

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  • Sunday Feature—New Generation Thinkers, New Generation Thinkers

    Fern Riddell discusses suffragette Kitty Marion. Plus Gregory Tate on science and poetry.

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