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Science journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Cure, Decoding the Heavens and The Human Cosmos
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The American Revolution’s Overlooked Influence? Physics. How ‘Common Sense’ Spelled Out Astronomical Expectations for a New Nation

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By Jo Marchant Verified
| Smithsonian Magazine Verified
The manifesto leaned heavily on Isaac Newton’s theories in making a case for independence, and fellow founders drew on the notion to build a new system of government In politics, as in nature, tensions can take years to build, but it takes just one stone to unleash an avalanche, one spark to ignite a wildfire. For many historians of the American Revolution, that spark was a pamphlet of fewer than 100 pages written by a newly arrived English immigrant named Thomas Paine.
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Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine?

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| MSN UK Verified
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Art Cure by Daisy Fancourt review – is culture the best medicine?

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By Jo Marchant Verified
| Inkl
A visitor to the 2020 summer exhibition at the Royal Academy, London. Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images After Daisy Fancourt’s daughter Daphne was born prematurely, she was confined to an incubator, fighting for her life against a series of infections. Unable to touch her baby or even properly enter the room, Fancourt kept vigil just inside the door, dressed head to toe in PPE, singing lullabies over the whir of instruments and alarms.
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