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Episode: How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolution
Description: Podcast: Dwarkesh Podcast (LS 56 · TOP 0.5% what is this?)Episode: How cosplaying Ancient Rome led to the scientific revolutionPub date: 2026-03-06Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationRenaissance history is so much wilder and weirder than you would have expected. Very fun chatting with Ada Palmer (historian, novelist, and composer based at the University of Chicago).Some especially fascinating things I learned from the conversation and her excellent book, Inventing the Renaissance:Not only did Gutenberg go bankrupt in the 1450s...