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...Pepys’ burning issues Compared with our public/private social media timelines, Samuel Pepys’ diary entries from the days of the Great Fire are refreshingly unguarded, writes Charlie Bailey ....
...Writing in 1758, Samuel Johnson bemoaned the English obsession with the weather. “Our dispositions too frequently change with the colour of the sky,” he said....
...Wolpert relates how the diarist Samuel Pepys “was transfixed in his chair until two o’clock in the morning” by the first sketches of cells from pioneering microscopist Robert Hooke in 1665....
...Her main sources, though, are diarists, including Samuel Pepys....
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