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Podcast: Ongoing History of New Music
Episode: The Unsung Heroes of Music: Part 2
Description: In the winter of 1417, a young man named Poggio Braciolini was searching through a library when it found an odd manuscript sitting on a shelfâŚit was a thousand years oldâthe last surviving copy of a poem by a roman philosopher named LucretiusâŚ
What Lucretius said in this poem was radicalâheretical, in factâŚwhat it contained was against all the teachings of God and menâŚit was called âOn The Nature of ThingsââŚ
First, he posited that the universe operated without Gods and that matter was made of tiny, tiny, particles that were in constant motion...