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Episode 411 - Frank Wilczek

Probably Science

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Newton's Principles of the Universe

Newton was sympathetic to the idea that there should be a medium. Newton devoted a lot of attention in the Principia to demolishing Descartes theory. There was a philosophical feeling that a transmission of influence through empty space was somehow like astrology.

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