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Eighteen-ninety-seven and all that

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Anniversaries to celebrate this new year range from the invention of the flute and the sewing machine to the discovery of the mountains of the Moon, some small killers, and an even tinier elementary particle.

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  1. Ofslang House, Mill Street, Islip, Oxfordshire, OX5 2SZ, UK

    J. L. Heilbron

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

    W. F. Bynum

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Heilbron, J., Bynum, W. Eighteen-ninety-seven and all that. Nature 385, 13–16 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1038/385013a0

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