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The Mather Borealis
The Mather Borealis
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Length:
42 minutes
Released:
Dec 3, 2023
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Was Cotton Mather a victim of 18th century cancel culture? In December 1719, Bostonians were astounded at the spectacle of the northern lights dancing in the sky, a sight that nobody alive could remember seeing before. One of the Bostonians who watched in astonishment was Cotton Mather. Confronted with this unprecedented natural phenomenon, Mather was torn. His instinct was to see signs and portents in the aurora borealis, but the world around him was changing, and his fellow natural philosophers were more likely to see the clockwork rules of Newtonian physics than the hand of God or the devil moving the universe around them. Mather’s report focuses on the secular experience of the phenomenon, but had he really changed his tune, or was he following the new political correctness of the modern era?
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Full show notes: http://HUBhistory.com/289/
Support us: http://patreon.com/HUBhistory/
Released:
Dec 3, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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