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Well done! Excellent brief history of major changes in our collective understanding of nature in the early days of mosern Science. Love it! Any plans to discuss David Hume? I hear he has a spot in the philosophy and history of Science.

Doesn't nature still abhor a vacuum anyway? I was taught that! Doesn't it help the pump- along with the atmospheric pressure? Even 'empty space' isn't a vacuum....

BTW-pretty weird that we haven't been back to the moon or even made another soft landing on the moon in 50 years! Huh? Odd.

"A robotic lander built by a private company suffered a technical problem on its way to the moon on Monday, threatening to upend the first U.S. soft lunar landing in over 50 years."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/united-launch-alliance-moon-vulcan-peregrine-1.7077123

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Jan 10Liked by Hans G. Schantz

Excellent presentation, sir! I really look forward to your book.

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Thanks for the kind words.

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