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Photo: The author proposes that the fortunes of science and liberty rise and fall together. The scientific revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries were, he argues, a powerful inspiration for the concurrent revolutions in government; together, they produced what we know as the modern world. It was no accident that many of the American revolutionaries were also successful scientists, and it is no accident that today’s liberal societies produce vastly more scientific research than do their dictatorial counterparts.   Here: Benjamin Franklin.    http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/contact http://JohnBatchelorShow.com/schedules Parler & Twitter: @BatchelorShow The Science of Liberty: 2of2: 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.