Margaret Cavendish beyond the North Pole. The polar researcher Dr Michael Bravo Joins Henry in Cambridge to discuss The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish, the maverick Duchess of Newcastle. Blending fantasy, philosophy and seventeenth-century science, they visit the Polar Museum, the Whipple Museum and Cambridge University Library. They meet Dr Joshua Nall, an expert on the history of science, and Dr Emily Dourish, deputy keeper of rare books.   Penguin Classics editions of The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34205/the-blazing-world-and-other-writings/9780140433722.html https://apple.co/3IAMNY5   Penguin audiobook of The Blazing World, read by Abigail Thaw https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/34205/the-blazing-world-and-other-writings/9780141993393.html https://apple.co/3u6gpIK   Michael Bravo https://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/people/bravo/   North Pole by Michael Bravo http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/display.asp?ISB=9781789140088   The Polar Museum https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/   The Whipple Museum https://www.whipplemuseum.cam.ac.uk/   The Cambridge University Library Rare Books Department https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/departments/rare-books   Joshua Nall https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/nall   Emily Dourish https://twitter.com/emilydourish?lang=en See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.