Greetings fellow time travelers, great to have you with me once again as we continue our journey together through history, the history of the world.

This is my love letter to the world.

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in my love letter to the world. Recorder, microphone, action. The ghost of a half plucked chicken is haunting a city square. It's ghoulish flapping helping science take another step forward.

Key to understanding the natural world and the wider Cosmos

are careful observation and analysis, also rigorous testing of new ideas and insights.

Out of this intellectual cauldron of thought and process came the scientific method.

Hi Neil, last week we travelled with you to the city of London in Great Britain to hear the

finishing touches being put to the most iconic version of the world's best-selling book. Where are we this week?

Hi Paul, well we're going from a holy book to a half plucked frozen chicken.

It's 1626 and we're traveling to meet one of the world's great thinkers. It's midwinter in the

village of Highgate in London and Francis Bacon is stepping out of his horse drawn carriage into a fearfully cold April day.

I'm back in Stirling. I've been away for a week with the family we were on Crete in the med and

Surrounded by history and archaeology anyway that's why I'm possibly a slightly different color do Do not adjust your screens. We've got

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