Fission and Energy
Two talks by GORDON LEFF
Lecturer in Medieval History in the University ot York
2: Nicholas of Cusa Bishop, cardinal, natural scientist, philosopher, diplomatist, Nicholas of Cusa was perhaps the most many-sided and unusual figure in late medieval thought. His attempt to harness the intellectual explosion of the fifteenth century was regarded as more or less eccentric. But the eccentricity may be more superficial than it seems. and the originality is rooted deep in tradition.
These talks are among a number devised to accompany the current series of music programmes from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance 'The sheep hath paid for all' by Peter Burke : November