Dr. Robert Allison
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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It is close.
They're really thinking about how does the world work?
What holds the world together?
The gravity is for Newton.
And this is replacing the Descartian idea about vortices that hold things up.
But it's really, how does the world work?
How do we rationalize things?
This is why we call the period the Enlightenment, partly because of Kant, but also because of Newton's book Optics, where he's writing about the nature of light.
So Cotton Mather, as you know, was a minister in Boston.
His father was a minister in Boston.
And Mather was also a fellow of the Royal Society.
This is the leading scientific organization in the English-speaking world.
The French have the Royal Academy of Science.
And Mather in 1714, we know he read the proceedings of the Royal Society that year because that was the year he was inducted.
It was because he wrote an essay published in the proceedings about some of the natural curiosities in America.
This is something that fascinated Europe.
What is different about America?
So Mather read this.
There's also an account in it.
something that had happened in Izmir a city in Turkey where there was a smallpox outbreak and people were inoculated taking some of the pus from someone who has a mild case of smallpox and then you cut
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