The Ascent of Man - 3: The Grain in the Stone 3/5
Paestum is contemporary with the beginning of Greek mathematics. Pythagoras taught in exile in another Greek colony not far from here. Like the mathematics of Peru 2000 years later, the Greek temples were bounded by the straight edge and the set square. The Greeks did not invent the arch either and therefore their temples are crowded avenues of pillars. They seem open when we see them as ruins, but in fact they are monuments without spaces. That's because they had to be spanned by single ...
Author: SpiralOut11235; Tags: Jacob bronowski carl sagan cosmos Charles Darwin history methodology science understanding knowledge culture evolution intelligence the ascent decent of man scientist
