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Magnetosphere is built in Edinburgh, and that is not an accident of address.
Edinburgh photograph: Adam Wilson / Unsplash
A City of Reason
We are rooted where rigour has always had a home.
This is a city of medicine. For the better part of two centuries, Edinburgh’s medical school was the finest in the English-speaking world. Simpson discovered the anaesthetic properties of chloroform in a townhouse on Queen Street. Lister brought antisepsis to the operating theatre here, and the death rate followed him down. The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh has been setting standards and holding people to them since 1505 — five hundred years before anyone thought to call it regulation.
And it is a city of minds. In a few square miles, the Scottish Enlightenment rebuilt how the Western world thinks. Hume demanded evidence over assertion. Smith showed that systems carry a logic of their own. Watt gave the world the power to build the modern one. And Maxwell, born a few streets from our door, wrote the equations that unified electricity, magnetism, and light — and described the very field our name is drawn from. When we say we practise regulatory science with the rigour of the disciplines it serves, this is the water we drink.
“We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.”
— Voltaire
Let us stand between your organisation and the regulatory wind
A conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing. It is simply the first step in understanding whether the field we build is the one your organisation needs.
