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The Limits of Genius
Katie Spalding (Hachette)
HOW is Donald Trump like Isaac Newton? Mathematician and science author Katie Spalding says that each had been silly sufficient to stare instantly on the solar. The previous US president and self-described “very steady genius” could have ignored an aide shouting “Don’t look!” throughout a 2017 eclipse, however the man who found the inverse-square legislation spent a lot of 1666 “doing absolutely anything to blind himself”, she writes.
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