Peter the Great
Anon
Genre: | Essay, Drollery |
Subjects: | Discovery, Invention, Physics, Gravity, Vaccination, Disease |
Notes the 'ecstasy of the soul that possessed Isaac Newton 'when he invented the law of gravitation', and the 'moral transport' of Edward Jenner when he 'grasped the antidote to fell disease'. | |
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