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A Renaissance conception of the universe P. 76-77: Bartolomeu Velho, 1568, facsimile in Portugaliae Monumenta Cartografi ca, vol. 2, plate 297 (Image courtesy: State Library of Victoria)

Professor Ian Goldin is director at the Oxford Martin Programme on Technological and Economic Change. His book Age of Discovery looks at the world on the brink of a new Renaissance and asks how do we share more widely the benefits of progress.

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