Chinese and Greek philosophers describe the basic principles of optics and the camera. 1664-1666 Isaac Newton discovers that white light is composed of different colors. 1727 Johann Heinrich Schulze discovered that silver nitrate darkened upon exposure to light. 1794 First Panorama opens, the...
Maccabbean Revolt rose against the Greek Empire, as its king Antiochus outlawed Jewish traditions and ordered a pagan altar to be set up in the Temple at Jerusalem. The revolt succeeded and the temple was dedicated. Hanukkah, celebrated during eight days from the twenty-fifth day of Kislew ...
-3200: Hindu astronomers called nakshatra darshas record in Vedic texts their observations of full moon and new moon at the winter and summer solstices and spring and fall equinoxes with reference to 27 fixed stars (nakshatras) spaced nearly equally on the moon's ecliptic or apparent path a...
One moment they’re beating up the Persian empire and conquering the known world, and the next, they’re slave tutors for the Romans or philosophers in their major cities.Listen to the whole podcast here!The Roman EmpireThe Romans and their empire at its height in 117 CE was the most ...
Leucippus and Democritus propose the idea of the atom, an indivisible particle that all matter is made of. This idea is largely rejected by natural philosophers in favor of the Aristotlean view.[6][7] c. 360 BCE Plato coins term ‘elements’ (stoicheia) and in his dialogue Timaeus, which...
Poets, scientists and philosophers wrote thousands of books (on paper, a Chinese invention that had made its way into the Islamic world by the 8th century). Scholars translated Greek, Iranian and Indian texts into Arabic. Inventors devised technologies like the pinhole camera, soap, windmills, ...
The works of Ancient Greek philosophers Plato (428-347 BCE) and Aristotle (384-322 BCE) are famous for the breadth of their philosophical inquiry and their systematic approaches toward ethical issues of their day. In many ways, the writings of these two figures are in response to the ethical...