Retrospective for the New Year: A decisive turning point in human thought

[Joe Carillo]

In 1417, the course of human thought swerved when a papal scribe in a monastery in Germany stumbled upon a lost ancient manuscript declaring that the universe functioned without the intervention of gods. Find out how that incendiary idea took wing in 15th century Renaissance Europe, fueling the Renaissance and inspiring countless artists, great thinkers, and scientists in the centuries that followed.

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