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...des Sciences observatory in Paris. As Galileo had suggested, he used the moons of Jupiter to map the world. The eclipses of Jupiter’s moons were timed in Paris using a pendulum clock. In 1681, Cassini travelled to the island of Goree in the West Indies to repeat his measurements. Absolute time was found on the island by observing the eclipses, and this was compared to...

...de siècle fantasy, how it manages to be simultaneously sensational, supernatural, romantic and realist. Milly Williamson, in her book The Lure of the Vampire, nails some of the reasons for Dracula’s impact – now and then – and why we are so fascinated by the dishy undead. And over recent years – who would have thought it! – the television series Buffy the...

...de. (2016 [1670]). “Theological-Political Treatise”, in The Collected Works of Spinoza. Volume II, trans. Edwin Curley. Princeton: Princeton University Press. United Nations. (1948). Universal Declaration of Human Rights: https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights. Discover more articles like this Study a free course on human rights and...

...des Artes remembers the weight of recent past, the Seine carries limbs twisting in the ironwork below. A few months later, I met a guy named Per in Sweden. Another tall dude. Per’s English was excellent, like most Swedes. He said ‘Hey’ in greeting, which I love. It’s actually hej, but, to an American, it sounds more like a hello from a long-lost friend. Within an...

...De Montfort University, was given a suspended two-year prison sentence and a five-year Serious Crime Prevention order for possessing neo-Nazi and terror-related documents. At his trial at Leicester Crown Court, it was revealed that John had amassed nearly 70,000 digital files relating to Adolf Hitler, Nazi ideology and white-supremacy and had also downloaded bomb-making...