Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science, Hardcover - Marc Aronson

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Published in association with the London Science Museum, an insight into the minds of inventors who shaped the world.

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Arranged in chronological order from the early Greek mathematicians, Euclid and Archimedes through to present-day Nobel Prize winners, 100 Science ...

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