The Search for Knowledge in the Garden of Eden

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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