On 20th February 1835, while taking a rest in a wood in Valvidia, Southern Chile, Charles Darwin experienced a major earthquake.
Month: February 2015
Thomas Wedgwood: the Uncle of Photography
As historians of science are forever reminding us (although nobody listens to those killjoys), we enter dangerous territory when we start to discuss the ‘first’ person to do X, the ‘lone genius’ who invented Y, or the ‘Father of’ Great Idea Z.
The Darwin bicentennial oak, 6 years on
Six years ago today, I planted the Darwin Bicentennial Oak in my garden.