The World of Mathematical Form Takes Shape
In some weird way we can all thank mother nature for math. Yes it would have came along some other point in time but it all stems from the Nile River in Egypt flood every year and wiping away property line and boundry markers. In soon time the Egyptions learned to estimate the land by dividing them into squares triangles and rectangles thus inventing geometry. The earliest form of math.
"Geometry introduced the idea of ideal forms existing outside the physical world. it opened vistas onto forms and ratios so beautufil they seemed to offer a look into the mind of God."
2. Multitude of Gods Give Way to one Almighty
Multitude of Gods Give Way to one Almighty
In the society's of the ancient world there were numerous Gods and Goddesses. Sometime in the 14th century B.C. in Egypt Pharaoh Amenhotep IV made a radical attempt to introduce Monotheism belief in the existence of one god or in the oneness of God. His God was was Athen, the life giving disc of the sun. In 1346 B.C. he changed his name and christened hims self Akhenaten (Servant of Athen) He closed all temples and had all scripturs with with the text "Gods, plural" erased, moved to Akhetaten which made the new capital and dedicated it it Athen, the new God!
It fell to the tribes of Israel to become the first people to embrace decisively the worship of a single God. Their commitment to the belief in one God began the the very early arise of the Bible The Old Testament.
In the society's of the ancient world there were numerous Gods and Goddesses. Sometime in the 14th century B.C. in Egypt Pharaoh Amenhotep IV made a radical attempt to introduce Monotheism belief in the existence of one god or in the oneness of God. His God was was Athen, the life giving disc of the sun. In 1346 B.C. he changed his name and christened hims self Akhenaten (Servant of Athen) He closed all temples and had all scripturs with with the text "Gods, plural" erased, moved to Akhetaten which made the new capital and dedicated it it Athen, the new God!
It fell to the tribes of Israel to become the first people to embrace decisively the worship of a single God. Their commitment to the belief in one God began the the very early arise of the Bible The Old Testament.
1. Prehistoric Man Imagines a World Inhabited by Spirits
Prehistoric Man Imagines a World Inhabited by Spirits
"The world is alive" You might say that was the central tenet of the earliest form of religion, one that we generally call "animism." Its a term that was coined in 1871 by pioneering british anthropologist Edward Burntt Tylor. He used it to describe what he concluded was one of the first spiritual intuitions, the belief among prehistoric people that all things, both living and inanimate, are inhabited by spirits."
What he was saying was that everything has a soul, everything with a heart beat and even sticks and stones.
For the primitive they believed that their were ways to please these other souls though rituals.
this worldwide view eventually turned into Polytheism. Even in the modern age we live in today their are still tribes and religions were their is this animistic way of looking at thing; looking at objects with a kind of respect due to the very basic belief that it may have a soul.
"The world is alive" You might say that was the central tenet of the earliest form of religion, one that we generally call "animism." Its a term that was coined in 1871 by pioneering british anthropologist Edward Burntt Tylor. He used it to describe what he concluded was one of the first spiritual intuitions, the belief among prehistoric people that all things, both living and inanimate, are inhabited by spirits."
What he was saying was that everything has a soul, everything with a heart beat and even sticks and stones.
For the primitive they believed that their were ways to please these other souls though rituals.
this worldwide view eventually turned into Polytheism. Even in the modern age we live in today their are still tribes and religions were their is this animistic way of looking at thing; looking at objects with a kind of respect due to the very basic belief that it may have a soul.
"Ideas are funny things. Invisible and weightless, they have no material substance, yet they have the power to change the course of history. Or as the french writer Victor Hugo put it: "One can resist invading armies: one cannot resist an invasion of ideas."
~Time Magazine~
100 Ideas
That Changed The World
"The 100 we (Time Magazine) settled upon stood out to us in part because taken together they demonstrate the many different things an idea can be. Those would include centuries-in-the-making developments like the alphabet and codified law; schools of thought like stoicism and existentialism; cultural watersheds that took place on many fronts, like humanism and romanticism; individual intellectual breakthroughs like thos of Descartes or Darwin; and crucial inventions like photography and computers. And while the ideas under discussion in this book are not the only ones that shaped the course of human affairs, we're confident they rank among the most important."
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