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On the shoulders of giants

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A volume of essays celebrating 350 years of Britain's Royal Society highlights the continuing gulf between science and the public, says John Gribbin.

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  1. John Gribbin is a visiting fellow in astronomy at the University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, and author of The Fellowship, a history of the foundations of the Royal Society. j.r.gribbin@sussex.ac.uk ,

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Gribbin, J. On the shoulders of giants. Nature 463, 429 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/463429a

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