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In this episode, George presents chapter one of the award-winning audiobook of his magical-realist coming-of-age novel An Almost Impossible Story.
For Paul-Henri Dietrich d'Holbach, human beings and all of Nature are essentially matter in motion.
For Julien Offray de La Mettrie, the human being is a clock-like organic machine, although there is no clock-maker.
For Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the human being is a metaphysical machine, mirroring God's harmonious universe.
This episode is devoted to Thomas Hobbes, whose fear of insecurity and desire for control made him develop a well-regulated machine model for society.
This episode is devoted to René Descartes, who developed mechanistic philosophy, likening human biology to clockwork.
This episode is devoted to William Harvey, who discovered the mechanism of the heart, and the circulation of the blood.
This episode is devoted to Andreas Vesalius, the founder of Renaissance anatomy and a pioneer of the scientific revolution.
In this episode, George explores the historical of the quest to locate the paradise of Eden.
George takes a historical tour of myth and metaphor, both in science and in the public persona of scientists.