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                                             Newton's telescope and ...                                              Hooke's microscope...                                                        as above, so below ?         The year of 1660 , saw the restoration of the monarchy with the crowning of Charles II. A country still dealing with the grinding ...

       '                                              Henry VIII.- Hampton Court?                                              No, it's just his new codpiece.      In its history, Britain (largely England for this period) has been invaded by Romans and Normans, and bossed about by Angles, Saxons and Danes. It has been riven by religious strife and convulsed by civil war and revolution. So how did this "miserable little island off the coast of France" as Frank Zappa called it, manage to develop, by th...

                                                                                              Sophia- Pneumatic        Every year, between the start of July and the end of August, Japan's Mt Fuji is alive with city-dwellers determined to conquer the famous peak. At this time, the shops on the slopes of the volcano do a roaring trade in small cans of oxygen as even the most unenlightened of Tokyo troglodytes recognises the need for this vital gas to keep our body working.      ...