Sir Thomas Gresham and the Spiral of Knowledge

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Sir Thomas Gresham’s dream was for knowledge to be developed and usefully applied – but he could not have dreamt of the prodigious scale of the expansion of knowledge over four centuries.

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This event was on Mon, 10 Mar 1997

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Dr Adrian Seville

Dr Adrian Seville is currently based at The Warburg Institute, University of London. Prior to that he was at City University.

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