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Klavan is one of the only non-physicists I’ve heard who brings up the ultraviolet catastrophe, although he missed out on a cool section name by not using it as such. He wanders further afield with how materialistic the popular conception is before reining it back to what was discovered via Quantum Mechanics.

A lot has definitely been glossed-over in how the philosophy of the late-middle ages developed the scientific method of Bacon, but I think it’s a workable overview. I think Galileo gets a bad rap here in some of the motivations, but then I have not read Galileo’s works because I know how to read neither Latin nor modern Italian.