Dr. Robert Allison
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 3 Jul
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So we can read the note which says, Mather you dog, inoculate yourself with this.
A pox on you.
What a story.
It is quite a story.
That's a very good question because there wasn't that big of a divide between them because people like Cotton Mather, he is a fellow of the Royal Society.
He is trying to understand God's creation.
And so is John Winthrop.
But you have this idea that we're trying to understand the workings of God's world.
And Newton, the same way.
And they're definitely thinking about this in the context of a creator and the idea of gravity.
There's this idea that there's different gravitational pulls in different places.
Well, no, there's one gravitational pull.
They do, by the way, had gotten away from the idea that the...
sun revolved around the earth.
So you see in the almanacs in the 17th century and 18th century, just an assumption.
This isn't an assumption everywhere in the world that the sun
Sun is the center of the solar system as opposed to the Earth.
Right.
They viewed someone like Franklin as a real scientist because of his contributions.
But when he starts venturing into the world of politics, opinions about him change in England, not so much in France, which is one reason he goes to France, where he meets Voltaire and meets with others.
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