Bath's my home town, I'm surprised by 'Science and medicine were the lifeblood of these cities', I always associated Bath as a party town for the rich (back in

Bath's my home town, I'm surprised by 'Science and medicine were the lifeblood of these cities', I always associated Bath as a party town for the rich (back in the 18th century), but the science/medicine link does make sense. On a related note, a few years after this diary was written, the astronomer William Herschel was living in Bath when he discovered the planet Uranus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Herschel