Sir Humphrey Davy, Scientist and Poet
His notebooks were a mix of scientific discovery and short verse.
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3 min readApr 18, 2024
Sir Humphry Davy was a celebrity. He would entertain rapturous crowds when he delivered his lectures in chemistry. He would entertain with whizzes and bangs and beautiful prose. Because when Davy wasn’t a chemist, he was a prolific poet.