The Death of Joseph Priestley
The clergyman and chemist Joseph Priestley died February 6th, 1804, aged seventy-one.
The clergyman and chemist Joseph Priestley died February 6th, 1804, aged seventy-one.
Andrew Smyth recalls the vision and enterprise of one of Louis XIV’s chief ministers and a Béziers businessman.
The man who gave his name to the notorious killing machine died on February 26th, 1903
Andrew Mendelsohn outlines the attractions of a fast-growing an popular field of study.
Britain's first atomic bomb was detonated on 3 October 1952.
Richard Pflederer evaluates a vital tool of the age of discovery.
Francis Murphy challenges the idea that science was religion’s foremost enemy, in this winning essay in the 2001 Julia Wood Award.
The 'puffing devil', the first passenger-carrying vehicle powered by steam, made its debut on a road outside Redruth in Cornwall on December 24th, 1801.
The French mathematician was born on August 17th, 1601.
Philip Lyndon Reynolds considers the battle between faith and reason in approaching a key subject of human existence.