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talesoftimesforgotten.com
Most people are aware that the ancient Greeks made a lot of significant contributions to modern civilization, but not everyone knows exactly what they contributed. I cannot possibly hope to list all of the ancient Greek contributions to civilization here, since I could write a whole book on the subject and still not cover everything. ... Continue reading "What Did the Ancient Greeks Contribute to Modern Civilization? A Lot, It Turns Out." |
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geopolicraticus.wordpress.com
Saturday A Scientific Research Program That Never Happened Carl Sagan liked to characterize the Library of Alexandria as a kind of scientific research institution in classical antiquity: "Here was a community of scholars, exploring physics, literature, medicine, astronomy, geography, philosophy, mathematics, biology, and engineering. Science and scholarship had come of age. Genius flourished there. The... |
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historyforatheists.com
If there is a story that forms the heart of New Atheist bad history, it's the tale of the Great Library of Alexandria and its destruction by a Christian mob. It's the central moral fable of the Draper-White Thesis, where wise and rational Greeks and Romans store up all the wisdom of the pre-Christian ancient world in a single library, treasuring science and reason and bringing western civilisation to the brink of a technological and industrial revolution. But then a... Read More Read More |
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4gravitons.com
Merging quantum mechanics and gravity is a famously hard physics problem. Explaining why merging quantum mechanics and gravity is hard is, in turn, a very hard science communication problem. The more popular descriptions tend to lead to misunderstandings, and I've posted many times over the years to chip away at those misunderstandings. Merging quantum mechanics... |
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