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OCTOBER 2010 £3.50

ASTRONOMY’S KNIGHT ERRANT

Jerry Brotton on the Great Galileo

Peter Marshall on Medieval Queens Robert Irwin on Arabic Science

The Man Who Stole the Bomb Diana Athill on Growing Old

Jane Ridley on Edith Cavell VASILY GROSSMAN: ‘ETERNAL REST’

A Very British Mission to Mao Isherwood’s Californian Days

The Badlands of Amexica

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO AUBERON WAUGH

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