Podcast: Revolutionary science and the French Revolution - with Steve Jones

Steve Jones chronicles the remarkable scientific advances made during the French Revolution and ambles through the history of modern science and current research.

Listen time: 48:36
People gathered on a statue waving French flags
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Paris at the time of the French Revolution was the world capital of science. In this dazzling new insight into the City of Light, Steve Jones takes a sideways look at its history, its revolutionary science and the scholars who laid the foundations, in the age of the guillotine.

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