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Discovery Science Stories: Series 6 Episodes

    Mary Anning and Fossil Hunting

    5/5 How a poor woman became one of 19th-century Britain's most successful fossil finders

    Hypatia: The Murdered Mathematician

    4/5 Naomi Alderman on the life and death of Hypatia, the ancient Greek mathematician

    Descartes' "Daughter"

    3/5 Philip Ball goes back to the 17th Century to talk about Descartes and his "daughter"

    Making Natural Products in the Lab

    2/5 How 19th century chemist Wohler made a natural product in the lab

    The Real Cyrano de Bergerac

    1/5 Philip Ball on the real Cyrano de Bergerac and his 17th century space ship.