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Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand Von Helmholtz

Hermann Helmholtz said the problem facing the scientist is this: reduce a creek, a kiss, a flaming coal from this random tracing to some irreducible final text dancing to the......

The Most Despised Of The Guilty Men

John Grigg SIMON: A POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF SIR JOHN SIMON by David Dutton Aurum Press, £25, pp. 364 J ohn Simon had the rare but frustrating distinction of holding the three......

The Tragedy Of A Valour-ruined Man

Francis King OUTERBRIDGE REACH by Robert Stone Deutsch, £14.99, pp. 409 I n these days of radio communications, satellite tracking and helicopter rescue, to sail single-handed......