After the death of Alexander the Great, the intellectual center of the Greek world shifted from Athens to Alexandria. His general and childhood friend Ptolemy built the city, along with its famous museum and library, and called upon the philosopher Read more…
Just a quick note for those of you follow this series via iTunes or some other podcast app. The costs of video hosting are simply too high to justify, so I’ll soon be pulling the plug on the podcast. But Read more…
Just a quick note that the first episode of season 2 is available to Patreon subscribers. Alexandria, the Museum, the Library and Strato is available here. The official version will be released June 1st.
The next episode (Season 2, Episode 1) is scheduled for release on June 1st, but I’ve decided to make it available early to my Patreon subscribers. From here, I need to spend some more time building up a backlog of Read more…
Aristotle tried to base his physics on actual observations of the world, but due to inadequate observations and hidden assumptions, nearly all of it is wrong. He separated the cosmos into the terrestrial and celestial regions. In the terrestrial region, Read more…
Although much of what Aristotle taught is wrong, he is remembered as the Father of Science because of his method of understanding the world. He insisted that we first observe the world and compare our theories to our observations. If Read more…
After Socrates’ death, his most devoted follower, Plato, founded his famous institution of higher learning, the Academy, inspired in part by the Pythagoreans. Upon challenging his colleagues to explain the motions of the planets in terms of perfect uniform circular Read more…
Good News New episodes soon! I’ve recently finished producing season one, and since this series is young I’ve decided to release it all in the coming weeks. You’ll be able to start watching the rest soon! Bad News It will Read more…
After the Persian wars, the center of Greek philosophy shifted from Ionia to Athens. The man to bring Ionian philosophy to Athens was Anaxagoras, who posited that the sun and moon are just rocks that can reflect light and cast Read more…
After the Greek Dark Age, Greek culture was reborn, and the center of the emerging Greek philosophy was Ionia. We meet three philosophers who laid the groundwork for future scientific inquiry: Thales of Miletus, credited with looking past the Greek Read more…