Past Programs
Science and Technology - 2003
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The Kabbalah and the Enlightenment
23/07/2003
Conventional wisdom had it that science came in when religion and magic moved out. But scholar of the Enlightenment, Alison Coudert, has uncovered the considerable influence of the Jewish mystical ideas of the Kabbalah on the Enlightenment's leading lights, Leibniz and Locke.
Morandi's Last Prophecy
02/04/2003
Renaissance Rome's most notorious astrologer, Orazio Morandi, abbot of the monastery of Santa Prassede, was a close friend of Galileo. But his premature prediction of the death of Pope Urban VIII cost him his life.
The Kabbalah and the Enlightenment
12/03/2003
Conventional wisdom had it that science came in when religion and magic moved out. But scholar of the Enlightenment, Alison Coudert, has uncovered the considerable influence of the Jewish mystical ideas of the Kabbalah on the Enlightenment's leading lights, Leibniz and Locke.
