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Referenced as a comparison when discussing how Guillotin's proposal for a beheading machine was seen as ludicrous, comparing it to 'the scientist in Gulliver's Travels who are trying to extract sunbeams from cucumbers.'

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Mentioned (as 'Gulliver's Troubles') as possibly one of the top four books read by British children as late as 1940

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Referenced (as 'Gulliver's Troubles') in connection with the island of scientists theme inspired by the Royal Society

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Mentioned in passing when discussing what happened after the English Civil War period - Dominic asks why people stopped fighting and started 'going to coffeehouses and talking about the South Sea bubble and reading Gulliver's Travels' instead.