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SPACE CADETS & MECHANIC METEORS
After generations of trial and error, mostly error, man’s age old dream of flying was realized near the end of the eighteenth century in the form of the hot air balloon. This was followed by several decades where daring aeronauts … Continue reading
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Tagged Albertus Magnus, Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Johnson, Emanuel Swedenborg, Etienne Montgofier, Father Francesco de Lana, Friar Roger Bacon, Henry Cavendish, Horace Walpole, hot air balloons history, J.A.C. Charles, Jean-Pierre Blanchard, Joseph Addison, Joseph Priestley, Leonardo Da Vinci, Montgolfier, Vincent Lunardi
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A WAGER ON THE FUTURE: FECKLESS ABANDON
The British eighteenth century used to be presented as the serene aftermath of the spectacular disruptions of the seventeenth century or as the quietly corrupt old regime against which a modernizing nineteenth century set itself. Both interpretations seriously underplayed the eighteenth century’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Angela Rosenthal, Caleb Williams, Cricket, Cricket gambling, Cricket history, Edmond Hoyle, Edmund Burke, George Stubbs, Georgiana Duchess of Devonshire, Henry Bunbury, Holcroft, Inchbald, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Wooton, John Zoffany, Joseph Wright, Lady Letitia Lade, Richard Holmes, Sir Brooke Boothby, Thomas Rowlandson, Tommy Onslow, Vincent Lunardi, William Godwin, William Hogarth, Zoffany
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