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Eighteen-ninety two and all that

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1992's anniversarial celebration encompasses the Old World and the New, by route of Tasmania. The Celsius scale and the revolutionary calendar join other births (Babbage) and deaths (Schrapnel) in this year's cornucopia.

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  1. University of California at Berkeley,

    J. L. Heilbron

  2. The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BN, UK

    W. F. Bynum

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Heilbron, J., Bynum, W. Eighteen-ninety two and all that. Nature 355, 11–14 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/355011a0

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