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CONTENTS

Welcome to All About History 48

OF

48 How ambition, madness and jealousy led to the bloody
and brutal War of the Roses
SCIENCE

12 Take a tour through the history of
science, from early models of the Solar
System to quantum leaps in physics

14 Hall of fame
Meet ten legendary scientists
16 Science
throughout the
ages
Follow the development of science
from early civilisation to modern-day
miracles and breakthroughs
18 How to…
We won’t lie, this one isn’t easy:
split the atom
20 Anatomy of
A body snatcher, digging up graves
60
to sell bodies to medical science
22 Day in the life…
Of a 17th-century alchemist
24 Inside history
How Newton discovered the
physical properties of light
26 Top 5 facts
Archimedes, inventor of super
weapons and a scientific principle
FEATURES

60 Nixon’s scandal 76 Australia’s first
How a seemingly innocuous penal colony
burglary led to the resignation and The journey and early life of
disgrace of a US president England’s first POMs
68 Da Vinci’s 84 Rebel with
inventions a cause
We bring you ten of the famed Did William Shakespeare insert
Renaissance polymath’s most hidden codes into his works for
brilliant inventions politically subversive purposes?

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