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An episode from 7/19/22: Sometimes it\u2019s worth just reveling in the way a great historian tells a story, or details and invention, or brings us face-to-face with a familiar topic. Tonight, I read three sections from Jacques Barzun\u2019s book \u2060From Dawn to Decadence\u2060, where we hear about:

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• The expedition of French scholars that followed Napoleon into Egypt
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• (about 24: 18) The invention of the printed book, and what it meant to education and literacy
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• (about 44:00) On the Salem Witch trials of 1692, and how closely science at the time was allied with superstition
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