Tag Archives: Heraclitus
“If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants”
These are the words of Sir Isaac Newton, 1675 A.D., quoting a well-known saying coined a few hundred years earlier. He was reminding us of the debt that current scholars owe to the great ones of the past. Newton was a physicist, … Continue reading
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Tagged Empedocles, Gorgias, Heraclitus, Herodotus, Plato, Pre-Socratic philosophers, Protagoras, Pythagorean Theorem, Sir Isaac Newton, Thales of Miletus
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An Obscure but Important Minstrel Man
He influenced your favorite artists. I have just read Where the Dead Voices Gather, by Nick Tosches. This extraordinary book is, among many other tangential subjects, a historical-cultural travelogue through the popular music of the years 1850-1980, using as a focal … Continue reading