History versus Physics, with Isabela Granic and Sam Biagetti
Clerestory (Bryan Kam)
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Is Gibbon Trying to Put Forward a Theory of Empires?
Gibbon was taking a specific historical transformation and trying to say, here are the conditions that were in place that made this happen. There's a great demand for that kind of, those sort of truths to come from history, but historians usually resist that. So it's people like Isaac Asimov who are taking Gibbon and trying to make a general point. But what was I thinking just about empires?
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