Events and ideas: 1500-1600
* EVENTS 1504 Leonardo paints Mona Lisa 1506 St Peter's basilica begun in Rome (right) 1509 Michelangelo takes three years to paint ceiling of Sistine Chapel 1517 Martin Luther defies the pope with...
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Events and ideas: 1600-1700
* EVENTS 1605 Guy Fawkes arrested as Gunpowder Plot fails (right) 1609 Galileo uses first complete telescope 1618 Pan-European Thirty Years' War begins 1620 Pilgrim Fathers set sail in Mayflower for...
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Events and ideas: 1900-2000
* EVENTS 1901 Queen Victoria dies 1914 First world war breaks out 1917 October revolution in Russia leads to communism 1919 Treaty of Versailles brings peace between Germany and the Allies 1929 Stock...
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Costed recommendations
Year 1 Cash Longer Term Cash Costs and Resource (Pounds m) Costs (Pounds m) Further education Recommendation 6 Increase bursary entitlement of further education students 15 15 Recommendation 25...
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Let there be Newton
While some pundits doubt whether the 17th-century revolution in science took place, advances in knowledge were undeniably made. Robert Fox surveys an epoch of change, from Galileo's vision of a...
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An optical illusion
Was the 18th century just a dull trough, when dwarves were perched on the shoulders of the giants of the 17th century's scientific revolution? Far from it, argues Roy Porter, it is our history of the...
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All together
In the popular imagination, the Romantics stand in solitary contemplation of an unknowable universe. But, argues Richard Holmes, Wordsworth was not lonely as a cloud - collaboration was central to...
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Utterances on utopianism
The form of debate used by the Enlightenment that seems most remote from us, namely utopianism, in fact, has a great deal to offer in the post-millennium era. How were scientific and technological...
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Into the abstract
From Kant's definition of analytic and synthetic truths to probe the limits of human understanding, down to Freud's psychoanalysis and the id, ego and super-ego, Roger Scruton presents a summary of...
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What's become of Darwin?
Darwin has been linked to a variety of European movements but, argues John Burrow, their readings of his work, particularly those of 20th-century eugenics - which at its most extreme led to genocide...
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The particle's over
The cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider project in the United States in 1993 closed a chapter in western scientific research during which physics achieved unparalleled primacy. Daniel...
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The pursuit of parapsychology
Every few years, parapsychologists announce the breakthrough they have all been waiting for - proof that psychic phenomena really exist. And then, over the next few years, they find they cannot...
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Gene genius
One of the most important discoveries of the 20th century was that of the structure and function of DNA and proteins. Max Perutz traces the history of the work that led scientists to decipher the...
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Membership of the Independent Committee
Convener - Andrew Cubie Members - Morag Alexander, Rowena Arshad, George Bennett, David Bleiman, Eleanor Currie, David Dimmock, Marian Healy, Archie Hunter, Dugald Mackie, Iain Ovens, Heather Sheerin...
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Terms of Reference
* To conduct a comprehensive review of tuition fees and financial support for students normally resident in Scotland participating, part-time or full-time, in further and higher education courses...