Archive for July 26th, 2008
Wallis Notebook Found in Berkshire
Saturday, July 26th, 2008From the BBC: The chance discovery of an antique notebook could have solved a 350-year-old scientific mystery. Alexander Popham was born deaf in around 1650 but his mother, determined to communicate with her son, hired two eminent scientists, John Wallis and William Holder, to teach him to speak. Both claimed success in what became a [...]