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Two hundred and fifty years ago Denis Diderot, commenting on what makes a great natural philosopher, wrote: They have watched the operations of nature so often and so closely that they are able to guess what course she is likely to take, and that with a fair degree of accuracy, even when they take it into their heads to provoke her with the most outlandish experiments. Read the first page
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