TED Talks
Laura Snyder: The Philosophical Breakfast Club
TV-PG
2013 • E71 Apr 12, 2013 15mIn 1812, four men at Cambridge University met for breakfast. What began as an impassioned meal grew into a new scientific revolution, in which these men -- who called themselves “natural philosophers” until they later coined “scientist” -- introduced four major principles into scientific inquiry. Historian and philosopher Laura Snyder tells their intriguing story.
