Dinner with 19th century scientist and "zoophage" (eater of all types of animals) William Buckland was not for the faint-hearted. Yet amid the eccentricity of his curious family, real science was being made, not least some rather fascinating and important advances in the then-young discipline of geology. Find out more in this short but entertaining film from BBC Ideas and The Royal Society.
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