July 2019 Issue Felipe Fernández-Armesto A Polymath’s Progress Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science By Robyn Arianrhod LR
March 2019 Issue Dmitri Levitin Going for Gold Newton the Alchemist: Science, Enigma, and the Quest for Nature’s ‘Secret Fire’ By William R Newman
September 2017 Issue Dmitri Levitin Deifying Gravity Priest of Nature: The Religious Worlds of Isaac Newton By Rob Iliffe LR
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In the nine centuries since his death, El Cid has been presented as a prototypical crusader, a paragon of religious toleration and the progenitor of a united Spain.
David Abulafia goes in search of the real El Cid.
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