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The Tragic Science Monk from Moravia

In 1865 the city of Brünn, Moravia (now Brno, Czech Republic) was an unlikely breeding ground for scientific discovery. Although politically Brünn served as the Austrian Empire’s key German-speaking enclave within mostly slavic Moravia, it was not a scientific center … Continue reading

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