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A Point of View
by
Lisa Jardine
A collection of the provocative and inspirational talks given by Lisa on her weekly BBC Radio 4 show. A leading academic, who embraces both the arts and sciences, she has the gift of making her subject accessible to a mainstream audience.
186 pages
Published
April 22nd 2008
by Preface Publishing
(first published 2008)
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What Lisa Jardine is exceptionally good at is making the past relevant. These are the (cleaned-up) transcriptions of her weekly radio show of the same name, only one of which I heard on Radio 4. Whereas some texts don't translate well from the spoken to the written format, these do. The essays are necessarily short: precisely the length of a brief radio show, and therefore won't tax the impatient. An example of Jardine at her most brilliant is Chapter 4, on Robert Hooke. Rather than concentratin...more
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Lisa Jardine CBE is Centenary Professor of Renaissance Studies at Queen Mary, University of London.
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