DiscoveryScience Stories: Series 6Episodes Episode guide

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1. Mary Anning and Fossil Hunting

   5/5How a poor woman became one of 19th-century Britain's most successful fossil finders
2. Hypatia: The Murdered Mathematician

   4/5Naomi Alderman on the life and death of Hypatia, the ancient Greek mathematician
3. Descartes' "Daughter"

   3/5Philip Ball goes back to the 17th Century to talk about Descartes and his "daughter"
4. Making Natural Products in the Lab

   2/5How 19th century chemist Wohler made a natural product in the lab
5. The Real Cyrano de Bergerac

   1/5Philip Ball on the real Cyrano de Bergerac and his 17th century space ship.