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In the 19th century, campaigners for a limited working week usually made a humanitarian argument, but the German reformer Ernst Abbe showed that limiting hours worked increased daily output – proving that respecting people's rhythms paid dividends.
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Carl Zeiss and his partner, Ernst Abbe, pioneered microscopes.
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