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You hold your notebooks in a locked chest-do you burn the three missing volumes?
A scholar’s locked chest holds private notebooks - three volumes are missing; could one man’s unseen notes hold a dangerous idea?
You hold your notebooks in a locked chest-do you burn the three missing volumes?
In this episode, we follow Georg Christoph Lichtenberg from his childhood in Ober-Ramstadt to the Göttingen laboratory where he kept dual lives: a public professor and a private notebook writer. We trace the vanished notebooks, the discovery of branching electrical patterns on a charged disc, and ask what it costs to keep certain thoughts unpublished.
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