>
> What lead you to think this, Eva? What counts as evidence and proof for
> you in this matter? If you and I were looking at paintings by
> Michaelangelo, lets say his 'The Fall of Man' in the Sistine Chapel and
> Picasso's 'Guernica' ; how would you help me to see how Picasso's work has
> progressed beyond Michelangelo's.
>
Progress is not necessarily a value-judgement,
it means different and in fact a higher step
of orderliness from the chaos and random coincidence
that caused us. Isn't there a line of progress
in the universality of meaning, in the accessibility,
the new forms and appreciation of art?
Artists are created by their society, and their society
progressed and they are surely reflecting this.
> When Einstein was asked if he was upset that a younger friend had died
> before he did; Einstein replied that "the past, the present and the future
> are illusions, albeit stubborn ones". Was this the third rate philosopher
> speaking or the first rate physicist?
>
If he said something you happened not to like,
would you still think him a good philosopher?
He only made extraordinary monument in physics.
> Dismissing 2/3's of Newton's writings as third rate puzzles me. Richard S
> Westfall, historian of science, and considered to be the authority on
> Newton's life and work, wrote a paper; "Newton and Alchemy" in the book
> "Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance" 1984, pp.315-335. In
> this paper Westfall summarizes the role of Newton's alchemy in his
> development of the concept of force; which led to 3 laws of motion...
>
> A belated Happy Ground Hog Day, it comes half way,exactly, between the
> winter solstice and the spring equinox - A sacred day for alchemists.
>
Alchemists were great, considering the limited
data and laboratory equipment available in their
times, they made very useful discoveries and
put down the foundation of the science
called chemistry. The magic/mystic hocus-
pocus did not progressed however as their were
no practical and evident results from that
area of enquiry.
Eva
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