![]() | TODAY IN SCIENCE HISTORY NEWSLETTER - 25 MARCH |
Feature for Today |
![]() Planned ramps for use by carts and freight traffic were never added due to cost. But to a public that marvelled as if it were the eighth wonder of the world, flocked to pay admission to walk under the Thames... if they dared! David W. Bartlett, was an American author who made two year-long stays in London (the first at age 19). He wrote a first-person account of his experiences. In this extract from What I Saw in London, you can get a sense of being there for yourself, seeing what the pedestrians still enjoyed, a few years after the tunnel had opened. (By 1869, the tunnel began use for an underground railway line, as it continues to do in the present day.) |
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![]() | "[We need not think] that there is any Contradiction, when Philosophy teaches that to be done by Nature; which Religion, and the Sacred Scriptures, teach us to be done by God: no more, than to say, That the balance of a Watch is moved by the next Wheel, is to deny that Wheel, and the rest, to be moved by the Spring; and that both the Spring, and all the other Parts, are caused to move together by the Maker of them. So God may be truly the Cause of This Effect, although a Thousand other Causes should be supposed to intervene: For all Nature is as one Great Engine, made by, and held in His Hand." |
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Before you look at today's web page, see if you can answer some of these questions about the events that happened on this day. Some of the names are very familiar. Others will likely stump you. Tickle your curiosity with these questions, then check your answers on today's web page. | |
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When you have your answers ready to all the questions above, you'll find all the information to check them, and more, on the March 25 web page of Today in Science History. Or, try this link first for just the brief answers. Fast answers for the previous newsletter for March 24: Joseph H. Taylor; petra = rock and oleum = oil; Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner; swine flu; the decade including the year 1955. |
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