The invention of the telescope in the early 1600s laid the foundation for the scientific revolution, but it also disrupted the traditional view of the universe and led to a conflict with the Catholic Church. Meanwhile, the Anglican Church completed a translation of the Bible that became known as the King James or Authorized version. In this episode, we look at how these simultaneous developments changed the modern world and shaped the English language.
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For whatever reason, I’m getting an error when parsing the RSS feed, today. It says the first character is invalid. Hex code 0x1F (31), which is a “unit separator” according to the ASCII table.
Could someone take a quick look and see if there is a strange character on line 1?
Hi Gary. What app or platform are you using where you encountered this problem?