With two friends from Sweden, gate-crashed a lecture on 'The History of Science':
'In the late 16th century there was a major crisis of thought in Europe. Every university on the continent had been basing its teaching on the philosophy of Aristotle; but with the rediscovery of the writings of other Greek philophers, and the realisation that Aristotle himself wasn't even that highly regarded in the ancient world, all of this was called into question. Their whole system of natural physics, and of understanding the nature of the world and life, was challenged and undermined.'
"Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone"
-John Donne -An anatomie of the world (1611)
'In the late 16th century there was a major crisis of thought in Europe. Every university on the continent had been basing its teaching on the philosophy of Aristotle; but with the rediscovery of the writings of other Greek philophers, and the realisation that Aristotle himself wasn't even that highly regarded in the ancient world, all of this was called into question. Their whole system of natural physics, and of understanding the nature of the world and life, was challenged and undermined.'
"Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone"
-John Donne -An anatomie of the world (1611)
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