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"Magic Realised": When science and art meet

Strikingly beautiful images from the mid-19th century show how early photographic technology made it possible to appreciate scientific phenomena from an aesthetic point of view. Art historian Dr Ben Burbridge of the University of Sussex joins Dan to review a forthcoming exhibition at London's Science Museum

(Photo: Proboscis of the Hummingbird Hawk-moth, Carl Str眉we 1928. Credit: Carl Str眉we Archive)

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