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History of Science & Technology Q&A (March 23, 2022)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Renaissance: A Period of Intellectual Development

Renaissance was a period when all of this kind of intellectual development and we can figure out new stuff. But if you look at the average book that was published in the early 1800s, there was a lot of random fluff and crazy stuff. So I don't know to what extent the thinking that happened in the Renaissance was we know of Leonardo da Vinci. We don't know of lots and lots of other people who maybe had all kinds of crazy ideas that just, you know, some of them perhaps should have survived.

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