Stetson on Substack: "“Many of the most important leaders of the scientific revolution were not university professors. Nicholas Copernicus, Robert Boyle, Tycho Brahe, and René Descartes, for example, held no academic positions. Nor did Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Voltaire, Diderot, or Rousseau…"

“Many of the most important leaders of the scientific revolution were not university professors. Nicholas Copernicus, Robert Boyle, Tycho Brahe, and René Descartes, for example, held no academic positions. Nor did Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, Voltaire, Diderot, or Rousseau.”

~From chapter 4: Errors: The Fantasy of Infallibility

Stetson

Aug 9

I’ve started Yuval Noah Harari’s new book, Nexus (I have a galley copy as the pub date is Sept 10th). It is positioned as a history of “information networks.” The book is divided into three parts (as all well position popular tracts are): 1) Human Networks, 2) The Inorganic Network, and 3) Computer Politics.

I’m not sure how hopeful I sh…

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