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Size is the most fundamental structural variable of the universe. Neither bacteria nor empires are immune to its laws. Measuring it is challenging, especially where complex systems like economies a...
In the late fifteen-century, the earth stood motionless at the centre of a small, ordered cosmos. Around us, it was believed, the moon, the sun and the planets revolved in crystalline spheres, thei...
Why are pencils yellow and white goods white? Why is black the colour of mourning? What connects Queen Victoria’s mauve gown and Michelle Obama’s yellow dress? In ‘Chromorama̵...
Fairy-tales are not just fairy-tales: they are records of historical phenomena, telling us something about how Western civilisation was formed. In this book, travel-writer Nick Jubber explores thei...
In one corner, a godless young warrior, Voltaire’s heralded ‘philosopher-king’, the It Boy of the Enlightenment. In the other, a devout if bad-tempered old composer of ‘outd...