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10 episodes in this season

Feedback

52 min

What's in a Name

52 min

Drop the Apple

52 min

An Invisible Object

52 min

Life is No Picnic

52 min

Elementary Stuff

52 min

A Special Place

52 min

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Fire from the Sky

52 min

Hit the Water

52 min

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In Touch

52 min

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Fire from the Sky

Season 3 · Episode 8 · Jan 1, 1997

Due to continental drift and Alfred Wegener's passion for mirages, magic images from the sister of King Arthur, whose chivalry supposedly triggers the medieval courtly love answers to adultery, which were in turn inspired by the free love ideas of the mystical Cathars, who lived next to the mystical cabalists who were fascinated with mystic numbers that spark Pico of Mirandola's interest in Hebrew, which then brings trouble for Johann Reuchlin, not helped by his nephew, the Protestant Melanchthon, who had a feud with Osiander, who rewrites the work of Copernicus. Osiander's Italian pal, Dr. Cardano, who cures the asthmatic Archbishop John Hamilton, executed for helping Mary, Queen of Scots, whose lover, the explosive-bearing Earl of Bothwell, ends up in Scandinavia with a friend of astronomer Tycho Brahe, whose assistant, Willem Blaeu, makes maps updated in the first true atlas by the Englishman Dudley, working in Italy for Bernardo Buontalenti, who got opera started, which was a rave

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Fire from the Sky

Season 3 · Episode 8 · Jan 1, 1997

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