Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

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let it out slowly, and off we go.

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Tonight we're relaxing with science and a book written by one of the most remarkable women of her time, Margaret Cavendish, who was not only a scientist, but one of the originators of science fiction. Tonight we're reading from her work,

Grounds of Natural Philosophy, divided into 13 parts with an appendix containing five parts.

The second edition, much altered from the first,

which went under the name of philosophical and physical opinions

written by the thrice noble,

illustrious and excellent princess,

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