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How The Victorians Took Us To The Moon

Patented: History of Inventions

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The March of the Intellect

I think your central thesis and your book or one of you there are several but it is very much that the Victorians invented the future. Like before the Victorians the future was just basically an extension of the present with a different monarch perhaps. If the Georgians say imagine the world a century hence by and large it would be kind of the same. Different George but the same. But round about the beginning of the 19th century you start seeing these kinds of new ways of thinking emerging. Both in ideas about culture and ideas about nature. So people start thinking that say universe isn't static. You know they've got a classic new Tony universe. It's their it's static is timeless

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