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- 1868-11 January 1974 (1868 and 1952-1974) (Creation)
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Comprises: photocopies, reprints and press cuttings of articles by others (some annotated); typed research notes [some by Jane Callander], some annotated, for programme 8 and specifically on "Priestley's Laboratory", Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais and his 'The Marriage of Figaro', and 'Le Nozze di Figaro' by Mozart; typescripts of Bronowski's "sync to camera" pieces for filming at Villandry [France] and in [Joseph] Priestley's Laboratory (heavily annotated) with comments by [Jo Marquand, BBC]; handwritten notes on Joseph Marie Jacquard, Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov, James Prescott Joule, the stethoscope and the thermometer; a list of locations connected with Jean-Jacques Rousseau; and a one-page outline for programme 8 entitled "The Drive for Power: concepts of energy and its conservation".
Also includes: a photocopied timeline showing the lives of significant scientists (1780-1880); handwritten notes by Bronowski on Josiah Wedgewood and the Lunar Society; a list of captions for chapter 8 [for book]; and images of the destruction of Priestley's home during the Birmingham riots and a house labelled "Priestley".
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This file was originally in a ring binder with research for programme 7 (Bronowski 6/3/1/8).