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EPISODE · Nov 26, 2025 · 40 MIN

10. The Forbidden Experiment - Part 3

from Science: A Peculiar History · host Joe Bath

In 1493, on the uninhabited island of Inchkeith, in the Firth of Forth, King James IV of Scotland conducted a linguistic experiment like that conducted by Psamtik and Frederick II (at least, so the 16th-century historian Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie says).

In 1493, on the uninhabited island of Inchkeith, in the Firth of Forth, King James IV of Scotland conducted a linguistic experiment like that conducted by Psamtik and Frederick II (at least, so the 16th-century historian Robert Lindsay of Pitscottie says).

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