tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350615302660579874.post6569837432419054601..comments2023-12-25T00:24:19.439-08:00Comments on Jacob Bronowski "Scientific Humanism": thought for the day/ Greek Astronomyflashgordonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06494729248223186195noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350615302660579874.post-81989500645071593952017-08-15T10:15:04.513-07:002017-08-15T10:15:04.513-07:00I enjoyed rereading this. I remember thinking I ne...I enjoyed rereading this. I remember thinking I need to come back to this and re-write it. Perhaps I do; but, it's not so bad!<br /><br />I'm glad you like this, and I hope your friend finds it interesting!flashgordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06494729248223186195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350615302660579874.post-10993994163343694652017-08-15T08:18:18.772-07:002017-08-15T08:18:18.772-07:00Hi there! This post couldn't be written any
b...Hi there! This post couldn't be written any <br />better! Looking at this article reminds me <br />of my previous roommate! He continually kept talking about this.<br />I most certainly will forward this information to him.<br />Pretty sure he'll have a very good read. Thanks for sharing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350615302660579874.post-62014160067421121442016-08-29T19:42:26.501-07:002016-08-29T19:42:26.501-07:00Greek Astronomers knew the Ptolemaic(and Eudoxus a...Greek Astronomers knew the Ptolemaic(and Eudoxus and Aristotle crystal spheres) were artificial fictions, just for mathematical purposes. See Timothy Ferris "Come of Age in the Milky Way", page 30.<br /><br />"Proclus noted, "These circles exist only in thought . . . They account for natural movements by means of things which have no existence in nature."flashgordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06494729248223186195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350615302660579874.post-3364842541686888642014-07-28T16:50:34.668-07:002014-07-28T16:50:34.668-07:00What connections between ancient mathematics of th...What connections between ancient mathematics of the Greeks to the Calculus and then to all of Analyses? The theory of Proportion; differential calculus is proportions taken to a limit.<br /><br />As for integrals, that's just going from finding the area of straight line figures to curved geometric objects. All this of course leads to the mathematics of real numbers, and then to the continuum and George Cantor transfinite numbers and so on . . . see my post about the finite and infinit . . .flashgordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06494729248223186195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5350615302660579874.post-63215624454064263152014-06-30T17:16:40.221-07:002014-06-30T17:16:40.221-07:00Oliver Dickinson, in his 'The Aegean from Bron...Oliver Dickinson, in his 'The Aegean from Bronze age to Iron age', beginning of the fifth chapter, mentions that the practice of chipped flint was still in use into the early Iron age!<br /><br />That is that stone age technology that goes back four millions years ago . . . the start of all technology, with the Australopithacines!flashgordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06494729248223186195noreply@blogger.com