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Lily Ford
Birkbeck, University of London
Hot air ballooning gave people the first chance to gaze down on the planet from the heavens - and quickly became a battleground between science and spectacle. Lily Ford gives an aerial view.
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13 Apr 2017
Across the late 18th and 19th centuries, the public embraced the magic of the panorama - a clamour which owed a lot to the popularity of hot air ballooning.