A long read but absolutely fascinating. Shows the long history & ongoing nature of institutional racism in the British scientific establishment.
"As far as I know, the Royal Society did not elect a Black fellow until 2023."
"As far as I know, the Royal Society did not elect a Black fellow until 2023."
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Caleb Crain
A tour-de-force of scholarship and detective work: Fara Dabhoiwala reveals that a portrait of an 18th-century Black scientist, long dismissed as a caricature, is in fact a record of the man's mastery of Newtonian physics—and the only painting made in 1759 of the return of Halley's comet.
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