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…that children were being successfully inoculated for smallpox long before Edward Jenner was widely credited for the developed of a small pox vaccine?

…or that one of the first popular health guides The Maintenance of Health, was written in the 11^th Century, and was still widely studied and referred to until the 1600s?

…or even that almost exactly a millennium ago it was finally disproved that the process of vision worked neither through physical forms entering, nor by rays emitted from, the eye?…Rather ironically not long after this discovery King Harold of England really did experience a physical form entering his eye while failing to resist the Norman invaders at Stamford Brook.

As part of the this years’ Royal Society Summer of Science this fascinating exhibition ‘Arabick Roots’ is now open

Well worth a visit if you can, but there’s a wealth of great stuff on the website if you can’t.

Have a great weekend and RPG is back in harness on Monday, when normal service will be resumed.