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It's becoming an irritation that the author keeps describing women as "wife of..sister of..aunt of.."
Did we really need this phrase inserted?

In 1794, Elizabeth Fulhame-wife of Dr. Thomas Fulhame, an Irish-born resident of Edinburgh who had studied with the famous chemist Joseph Black-had published a pamphlet titled "An essay on combustion, with a view to new art of dying and painting,"

"...the man of science was not supposed to be like the ant, piling up facts like crumbs, but like the bee, who takes specks of pollen, digests them, and turns them into honey."

Another argument that we are in the Dark Ages 2.0. "Many political economists of the day argued that riches were a sign of God's favor, and God Himself had ordained that there be poverty, so that people would have incentive to work hard".

I effing love this.
"countering Atheism, Pascal argued that even though the existence of God cannot be proved by philosophical argument it is still the most rational course to act (or bet) that God does exist because -if you are right you have everything to gain and if you are wrong you have little to lose." "It is not surprising that one of his main philosophical tenants was expressed in terms of a gamble"

"Experiments &c on Various Subjects, viz. Optical Chemical & Nonsensical, and Queer things miscellaneously arranged for the benefit of posterity." John Herschel titled his notebook such.
You can almost see the obligatory Motorhead sticker.

Bacon "listed all cases of objects that were hot but lacking the property of heat".." concluded that heat was a kind of motion of imperceptible particles" I have to know how he got to this before the days of understanding molecules.

The demotion of the great Caroline Herschel to two lines, "helping with observations" and John Herschel's most loved aunt is disgusting. It would have taken just one more sentence to tell the whole truth. Shame on you, Snyder.

Taught by Mr. Gough who Wordsworth made famous by writing lines in a poem The Excursion.
I've had some good teachers before but never written poetry about them.