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This history of atomism, from Democritus to the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, chronicles one of the most successful scientific hypotheses ever devised. Originating separately in both ancient Greece and India, the concept of the atom persisted for centuries, despite often running afoul of conventional thinking. Until the twentieth century, no direct evidence for atoms existed. Today it is possible to actually observe atoms using a scanning tunneling...
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Traces how the human image of the world has changed throughout history, demonstrating the evolution of the idea of reality while touching on subjects ranging from the Higgs boson to quantum gravity.
"A closer look at the mind-bending nature of the universe. What are the elementary ingredients of the world? Do time and space exist? And what exactly is reality? Theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli has spent his life exploring these questions. He tells...
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How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first...
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"The Timaeus-Critias is a Platonic treatise in two parts. A response to an account of an ideal state told by Socrates, it begins with Timaeus' theoretical exposition of the cosmos and his story describing the creation of the universe, from its very beginning to the coming into being of man. Timaeus introduces the idea of a creator God and expounds the structure and composition of the physical world. The Critias, the second part of Plato's work, comprises...
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"One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, each with a question: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From this irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through successive letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while...
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1. Thales-- 2. Anaximander-- 3. Anaximenes--4. Pythagoras-- 5. Xenophanes-- 6. Heraclitus-- 7. Parmenides-- 8. Zeno-- 9. Melissus-- 10. Emperdocles-- 11. Anaxagoras-- 12. Democritus-- 13. Leucippus-- 14. Protagoras-- 15. Gorgias-- 16. Antiphon-- 17. Pericles-- 18. Thucydides-- 19. Socrates-- 20. Plato-- 21. Meno-- 22. Phaedo-- 23. Phaedrus-- 24. Parmenides-- 25. Theaetus-- 26. The Sophist-- 27. Timaeus-- 28. Laws, Book X-- 29. Epistle VII-- 30. Aristotle--...
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The millions of different substances that make up the world can be reduced to a comparatively small number of chemical elements. These, arranged in order of their atomic number, form the Periodic Table. This program from the BBC archives provides a comprehensive overview of the development of the table. It discusses the work of John Dalton, Johann Dobereiner, and John Newland, and the creation of the first table by Dmitri Mendeleyev in the late 19th...
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George Santayana's renowned work of moral philosophy outlines his vision of the ideal life. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana's The Life of Reason stands as one of the most influential and beautifully written works of philosophical naturalism. In it, Santayana articulates his vision of human progression from chaos to reason and the pursuit of the ideal life. Focusing his thought on the lived experiences...
17. The Metaphysics
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Aristotle's formulation of an ultimate science argues that the reality of things lies in their concrete forms, which laid the foundation for one of the cardinal branches of Western philosophy.
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Dive into the intellectual origins of Western philosophy with "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers." This comprehensive translation brings to life the fragments of wisdom left by the ancient Greek thinkers, spanning from the enigmatic Orpheus to the brilliant minds of Thales, Pythagoras, Heracleitus, Zeno, and Democritus. Delve into the essence of their philosophies through meticulously translated quotations, discovering the lost books they authored...
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One of the major documents of modern European civilization, Robert Burton's astounding compendium, a survey of melancholy in all its myriad forms, has invited nothing but superlatives since its publication in the seventeenth century. Lewellyn Powys called it "the greatest work of prose of the greatest period of English prose-writing," while the celebrated surgeon William Osler declared it the greatest of medical treatises. And Dr. Johnson, Boswell...