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HALF the fun of playing Chinese whispers is the pleasing shock of hearing what the first person actually said. That pleasure for adults is tagged “primary sources”. Bartusiak has done astronomy a great favour. Archives of the Universe gives us the original words of 100 great thinkers, familiar and unfamiliar.

Archives of the Universe

Marcia Bartusiak

Pantheon

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