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Photo:  Eudoxus of Cnidus.  In the fourth century B.C. at Plato's Academy, where the geometer Eudoxus surmised that the firmament was more than an inverted bowl through which the fires of the gods flickered. Anxious to craft a model that could make accurate predictions of celestial movements, Eudoxus envisioned the stars and planets as fastened to a series of invisible concentric spheres, with a motionless earth poised prominently in the center.  Eudoxus   http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Parler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Science of Liberty: 1of2: Democracy, Reason, and the Laws of Nature Reprint Edition, Kindle Edition. by Timothy Ferris (https://www.amazon.com/Timothy-Ferris/e/B000APWB66/ref=dp_byline_cont_ebooks_1)   (Author)  Format: Kindle Edition https://www.amazon.com/Science-Liberty-Democracy-Reason-Nature-ebook/dp/B0035D9URS/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=timothy+ferris+liberty+science&qid=1612662065&s=digital-text&sr=1-1 in The Science of Liberty, award-winning author Timothy Ferris—called “the best popular science writer in the English language today” by the Christian Science Monitor and “the best science writer of his generation” by the Washington Post—makes a passionate case for science as the inspiration behind the rise of liberalism and democracy. In the grand tradition of such luminaries of the field as Bill Bryson, Richard Dawkins, and Oliver Sacks—as well as his own The Whole Shebang and Coming of Age in the Milky Way—Ferris has written a brilliant chronicle of how science sparked the spread of liberal democracy and transformed today’s world.