Joyce E. Chaplin is the James Duncan Phillips Professor of History at Harvard University. She is the author of several books, including Subject Matter and The First Scientific American, which was the winner of the Annibel Jenkins Prize of American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
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For almost five hundred years, human beings have been finding ways to circle the Earth—by sail, steam, or liquid fuel; by cycling, driving, flying, going into orbit, even by using their own bodily power. The story begins with the first centuri... SEE MORE