Drinking up time: science and alcohol since the seventeenth century
28 Oct 2010
Manchester Science Festival event on Friday 29 October
Another chance to catch this light-headed blend of facts and falsehoods developed by James Sumner of the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
The improbable story of an everyday time-traveller's attempt to get to grips with the science of alcohol since the seventeenth century played to a packed room at last year's Manchester Science Festival, and has since appeared at the British Science Festival in Birmingham.
Probably the first public event ever to feature a tavern scuffle with Sir Isaac Newton, plus Humphry Davy's courtroom testimony on the value of putting rotten fish in beer.
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