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S04E03: HUM223 Wk2: Sewn Into the Coat: The Baroque and the Scientific Revolution
Episode Title: Sewn Into the Coat: The Baroque and the Scientific Revolution
Description: A servant sorting a dead man's laundry finds a parchment stitched into the lining of a coat. That discovery opens onto the loudest century in Western history. The Sun King builds Versailles as a stage set for absolute power, and probably never said the line everyone quotes. Dutch merchants make an entire art out of the inside of a house. Descartes doubts his way down to one surviving certainty, Bacon reasons the other direction, and Kepler gives up the perfect circle because the numbers will not allow…
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