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4 Oct 2023 Conversations with Tyler Ada Palmer on Viking Metaphysics, Contingent Moments, and Censorship
“I would say that a part of that is, those are excellent figures, and they were embraced by and are famous in the anglophone scientific tradition. But there are certainly two dozen equally innovative and important people from Spain or Italy in the same moment — if not more — who aren’t famous in the anglophone histories of science because we center the nationalistically celebrated British Isles area more, if that makes sense.”
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…But you have Berkeley, you have Swift. A bit later, you have Burke. That’s pretty impressive for what’s a fairly small country. It is. I would say that a part of that is, those are excellent figures, and they were embraced by and are famous in the anglophone scientific tradition. But there are certainly two dozen equally innovative and important people from Spain or Italy in the same moment — if not more — who aren’t famous in the anglophone histories of science because we center the nationalistically celebrated British Isles area more, if that makes sense. Sure. Who actually made the censorship decisions during the French Enlightenment?…
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