Closing Credits and Podcast Recommendation

At the dawn of European exploration, the Renaissance polymath Francis Bacon dreamed of resurrecting the Garden of Eden. Driving this vision was a relentless quest to fully understand—and catalog—God's created order.

Guests

Lorraine Daston, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Ann Blair, Harvard University

Rebecca Bushnell, University of Pennsylvania

Staffan Müller-Wille, University of Cambridge

James Rosindell, Imperial College London

Amy Tigner, University of Texas at Arlington

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