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Lisa Halverson

Matt J. Rossano: How the Myth of the Flat-Earth Dogma Started the Religion-Science War - 0 views

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  • Lactantius was a fourth-century pagan convert to Christianity who took particular delight in arguing against pretty much everything any pagan philosopher ever said, including that the earth was round.
  • Cosmas Indicopleustes
  • tealthily misrepresent a few church fathers as flat-earthers (Basil, Chrysostom) and to argue that the non-flat-earthers were a few brave soles swimming against a colossal tide.
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  • rigen, Ambrose, Augustine, Clement, and Aquinas
  • . It was a classic fight of good vs. evil, progress vs. regress, ignorance vs. enlightenment -- just what the papers needed to sell copy
  • There never was a flat earth dogma
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  • They fabricated a false history highlighted by a non-existent dogma and used them to brand religion as unceasingly reactionary, dim-witted, and anti-science.
  • Claiming that science and religion have known only unrelenting warfare betrays one's ignorance of history and possibly one's social/political agenda.
  • tarting a war on false pretenses is nothing new. But when a few nineteenth-century academicians declared a science-vs.-religion war, they did us all a disservice.
  • John W. Draper (1811-188
  • Christianity was currently opposing progress because it has always been an impediment to science, reason, and progress. An especially egregious example of this was the Church's insistence on a flat earth,
chandlerbeaman

Almagest - 2 views

Great Works Assignment: Almagest Objectives: * Students will investigate the great work and analyze information in order to find answers to the crossword clues. * Students will create a their own...

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started by chandlerbeaman on 10 Oct 12 no follow-up yet
Taylor Halverson

Chapter 13: Roman Science, Technology, and Art: Thieves or Geniuses - 0 views

This topic is for key words and great works found in Chapter 13 of the History of Creativity textbook.

Roman Science Technology Art

started by Taylor Halverson on 29 Aug 12 no follow-up yet
Ryan Shill

What the Ancients Knew - The Parthenon an Optical Illusion - 0 views

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  • Ryan Shill on 09 Oct 12
     
    A video about the various optical illusions that exist in the parthenon.
Shanell Reynolds

Aristotle, Physics - 1 views

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  • Charles Best on 24 Sep 12
     
    The science of physics, Aristotle stresses, contains almost all there is to know about the world. Were there no separate forms-entities such as the unmoved mover at the pinnacle of the cosmos-which are without matter and are not part of the physical world, physics would be what Aristotle calls first philosophy ( Metaphysics 6.1, 1026a27-31).
  • Nicole LeDuc on 26 Sep 12
     
    Aristotle's Physics
Mark Weaver

Aristotle's Physics - 0 views

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  • Mark Weaver on 26 Sep 12
     
    I am impressed with the scope of what Aristotle could comprehend and tried to study.
April Todd

Greek Medicine: Hippocrates - 0 views

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  • April Todd on 24 Oct 12
     
    Medical historians generally look to Hippocrates as the founder of medicine as a rational science. It was Hippocrates who finally freed medicine fromthe shackles of magic, superstition, and the supernatural.
Bradley Ripa

The good society and the good soul: Plato's Republic on leadership - 0 views

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  • Bradley Ripa on 23 Sep 12
     
    Plato: The Republic
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