Ira Flatow
speaker
1,345 appearances
25 recordings
2 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 2d ago
Ira Flatow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Some people are thinking about Venus.
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Anything else come to mind of the kinds of things that natural philosophers were thinking about in those days?
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You reminded me of something, and that was another New England thinker, Cotton Mather.
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Yes.
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Smallpox.
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Smallpox, yes.
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Tell us about that.
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Oh.
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You know, I think about, you think about great scientists, you think about Newton and people's scientists, Galileo, their closest to religion and the church.
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How did the church influence what was going on with natural philosophers in America?
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Yeah.
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And so there was harmony there.
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There was not conflict like with these others.
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So speaking of center, at this time, Europe is still the center of science.
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Yes.
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And they're looking at all these young upstarts in the colonies.
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Do the Europeans view them as real scientists, or what was their attitude toward them?
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I can't believe that.
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It's shocking.
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I hope I never live to see that.
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