tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post2664190687849598315..comments2024-02-28T02:22:20.886-08:00Comments on homunculus: The start of curiosityPhilip Ballhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09986655706443117158noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-51750253897161784062012-05-11T17:07:05.046-07:002012-05-11T17:07:05.046-07:00This one's pretty good too:
http://www.youtub...This one's pretty good too:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRmbwczTC6EWilliamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03931364049532099953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-46222694564232799562012-05-11T17:06:20.860-07:002012-05-11T17:06:20.860-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Williamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03931364049532099953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-8803946490282827152012-05-11T16:43:27.068-07:002012-05-11T16:43:27.068-07:00Feynman had a simple way of putting it:
http://ww...Feynman had a simple way of putting it:<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmTmGLzPVyMWilliamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03931364049532099953noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-76807871453809194612012-05-11T01:27:52.980-07:002012-05-11T01:27:52.980-07:00I cover some of that, certainly insofar as the Car...I cover some of that, certainly insofar as the Cartesian approach was rather different from the more eclectic and haphazard experimental philosophy. Increasing prosperity surely played a part too. And I do challenge the common notion that the Scientific Revolution was inevitably allied to a rigorously mathematical approach, on which earlier historians of science such as Alistair Crombie have insisted.Philip Ballhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09986655706443117158noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26741618.post-3160531802296100532012-05-10T16:17:46.936-07:002012-05-10T16:17:46.936-07:00Could it not be the rise of the middle-classes; mo...Could it not be the rise of the middle-classes; more folk with disposable time and money? As even the most basic of equipment such as optics or thermometers, would have cost a small ransom. Prior to this, people lived hand to mouth, and any distraction to the duty of living, would have been detrimental to life.<br /><br />Regarding the reformation and the enlightenment, both periods spawned extreme intolerant movements such as puritanism and Robespierre (what ever movement he represented). The notion of experimental curiosity might be in conflict with the spirit of absolute logic (Descartes et al); and that ironically the age of enlightenment may have stymied the early experimentalists, as inductive discovery lacked the mathematical discipline of deductive logic. Something that resonates today between experimental research, and mathematical / computational science modelling.JimmyGirohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01548795180321590463noreply@blogger.com