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Sir Joseph Banks, Sir Humphry Davy, and the Age of Wonder
***This lecture is now FULLY BOOKED***
How do individual lives illuminate an age? This talk will reflect on the relationship between biography and history, using two of Britain's greatest scientists as examples.
Speaker: Prof. David Knight, Dept. of Philosophy, Durham University