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Q&A: How cartoonists skewer tensions between science and society

Historian Patricia Fara curates caricatures that provide snapshots of social and political debates around the emergence of modern research.
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  1. Alexandra Witze

Patricia Fara, a historian of science at the University of Cambridge, UK, has written for decades about subjects from Isaac Newton to the women who worked as researchers during the First World War. Along the way, she’s collected illustrations. In a yet-to-be-published project, Fara has curated 42 scientific cartoons and caricatures from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, mainly from the United Kingdom and the United States.

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Nature 590, 33-35 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00261-2

The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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