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Scientific American: The Last Word by James Burke
Scientific American: The Last Word
Scientific American: The Last Word

Publisher: Scientific American
Author: James Burke
Audio lenght: 7 min.

James Burke takes an encyclopedic look at wordsmiths, dirty old men, rock hounds, ETs, and the visitor's London in this month's "Connections" column, visiting along the way Samuel Johnson, Adam Smith, Charles Darwin, Denis Diderot, Voltaire, and Jane Austen. This article originally appeared in Scientific American for September 2000.

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