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EVENTLondon and Oxford
1928 to 1945

The Discovery of Penicillin

London and Oxford

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7 minAudio
BOOK

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions

by Thomas S. Kuhn

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7 minAudio
EVENTUnited States and Europe
1969 to 1991

The Birth of the Internet

United States and Europe

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7 minAudio
EVENTEurope
1543 to 1687

The Copernican Revolution

Europe

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8 minAudio
EVENTEurope and the Atlantic world
c. 1685 to 1815

The Enlightenment

Europe and the Atlantic world

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7 minAudio
EVENTMesopotamia
c. 3400 BCE

The Invention of Writing

Mesopotamia

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7 minAudio
EVENTBritain
1859

The Publication of On the Origin of Species

Britain

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7 minAudio
EVENTCambridge and London
1953

The Discovery of DNA's Structure

Cambridge and London

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7 minAudio
EVENTEurope
1850s to 1890s

The Germ Theory of Disease

Europe

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6 minAudio
EVENTFrance
1751 to 1772

The Encyclopedie

France

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7 minAudio
BOOK

The Dawn of Everything

by David Graeber and David Wengrow

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6 minAudio
BOOK

The Invention of Nature

by Andrea Wulf

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7 minAudio
EVENTMainz, Holy Roman Empire
c. 1440 to 1455

Gutenberg and the Printing Revolution

Mainz, Holy Roman Empire

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3 minAudioEarly Modern
EVENTEngland
1215

The Sealing of Magna Carta

England

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4 minAudioMedieval