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Historical Blindness

Hidden Bodies: A Brief and Incomplete History of Astronomical Discovery

Historical Blindness

Nathaniel Lloyd

Politics, News, Religion & Spirituality, History, Religion

4839 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Backward notions of our place in the universe, illusory signs of extraterrestrial life, phantom planets--In this episode, I survey the development of our understanding of the solar system and beyond, learning how erroneous ideas, even those that were popular for a long time, are eventually overturned, revealed to be false by the light of science.  Pick up my principal source for this episode, Dispatches from Planet 3 by Marcia Bartusiak. Check out my novel, Manuscript Found!   Further support the show by giving a one-time gift at paypal.me/NathanLeviLloyd or finding me on Venmo at @HistoricalBlindness, or by signing up for a 2-week trial of The Great Courses Plus or a 30-day trial of Audible.     Some music on this episode is copyright Alex Kish. Contact him at alexkishmusic.com to get music for your own projects. Additional music, including "Remedy for Melancholy," "Seeker," "Sentinel," "Tumult," "July," and "Harbor" are by Kai Engel, licensed under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:04.2

When the creators of the popular science show with millions of YouTube subscribers comes the Minute Earth podcast.

0:10.2

Every episode of the show dives deep into a science question you might not even know you had,

0:14.1

but once you hear the answer, you'll want to share it with everyone you know.

0:17.4

Why do rivers curve?

0:19.0

Why did the T-Rex have such tiny arms? And why do so many more kids

0:22.9

need glasses now than they used to? Spoiler alert, it isn't screen time. Our team of scientists

0:28.8

digs into the research and breaks it down into a short, entertaining explanation, jam-packed

0:33.3

with science facts and terrible puns. Subscribe to Minute Earth wherever you like to listen.

0:38.2

On this season of Bad Watchdog,

0:40.2

we unpack the project on government oversight's exclusive investigations

0:44.4

uncovering the abuse of people in the Department of Homeland Security's immigration detention.

0:49.5

And how another threat has infiltrated the agency's own ranks.

0:55.5

It only takes one insider to undermine federal law enforcement attempts to go after crimes,

1:01.5

fighters, ladies. Listen and subscribe to Bad Watchdog Season 2 wherever you get your podcast, starting

1:07.0

June 20th.

1:08.0

It is not certain when Aristotle wrote his book, On the Heavens, but it is thought to have

1:15.6

been written sometime around 350 BCE. In it, he addresses the debates on cosmogony of his day,

1:23.6

for example, asserting the weakness of the argument of flat earthers.

1:29.9

As I've discussed before, the view of the Earth as spherical was common, even popular,

1:36.0

all the way back then, and championed by Aristotle.

1:40.3

However, in laying out his model of the universe, he favored a geocentric cosmology,

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