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HoP 396 - Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Emotional Charge of Wonder, Horror and Terror

In the mediaeval age, these very strong emotional reactions would have been seen as a kind of downside of thinking about wonder. Your pleasure and your titilation that you feel when you hear these as is actually going to spur you on to discover more about nature. These passions of wonder, horror and terror form a triangle, which is quite precarious.

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