informants or collaborators he relied on, led to the classification of more than500(often minutely described) species.Two intriguing creatures that Aristotle closely documented were theoctopusand theBlack Goby, a small fish local to Lesbos and surrounding waters. The investigator’s description of the...
While some of the major errors have been fixed, many of them have not. For example, the author still incorrectly informs the students that the works of the Greek philosophers were lost when the West Latinized, and they weren’t “rediscovered” until the Renaissance. That is blatantly false....
The poems were models for celebrating the pleasures of friendship, the depth of nature, solitude, and the joys of drinking wine. Among the most famous are "Waking from Drunkenness on a Spring Day", "The Hard Road to Shu", and "Quiet Night Thought", which still appear in school texts ...
Socrates was the first great Greek philosopher. He also helped to shape other philosophers that came after him. Plato, who got his start by studying with Socrates, and Aristotle, who studied with Plato, also changed Western civilization. Asking questions to discover the truth is still practiced ...
Who was the first philosopher (e.g., Greek or pre-Socratic) You are not taking that the first philosophers were Greek ... tut, tut, tut. Who was the first philosopher to describe what we now know as artificial intelligence? I take artificial intelligence to intelli...
Greek Architecture希腊建筑 It has been said that captive Greece conquered victorious Rome, and, as we have seen, the Romans adopted many ideas in painting and sculpture from the Greeks.Roman temples were also strongly influenced by Greek prototypes. Greek columns were built in three s...
As art historian Claire Farago has pointed out many times, these formulations were not invented out of thin air in the Early Modern period but are based on beliefs articulated by Aristotle and other Greek and Roman thinkers taken by Europeans to be the “origins” of European culture. See her...
She was sharply critical of most philosophers and philosophical traditions known to her, except for some Aristotelians and classical liberals. She has been a significant influence among libertarians and American conservatives. A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ...
Famous for its sun, golden beaches and medieval city, the island of Rhodes in the south Aegean Sea is a magnet(磁铁)for northern Europeans. More than three million flock to the island every summer, but some also come in the winter. In order to capitalize on the energy crisis, the Gre...
from the Greek word astrolabos, or "star-taking."Astrolabeswere used primarily to make astronomical measurements, typically of the altitudes of celestial bodies, but astute philosophers, astrologers and sailors devised hundreds of uses for the instrument. The astrolabe was, without a doubt, the sli...