Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious | Aeon Ideas
In 1614, when the telescope was new technology, a young man in Germany published a book filled with illustrations of the exciting new things being discovered telescopically: moons circling Jupiter, moon-like phases of Venus, spots on the Sun, the rough and cratered lunar surface. The young man was Johann Georg Locher, and his book was Mathematical Disquisitions Concerning Astronomical Controversie
Maths notation is needlessly complex. It can and should be better | Aeon Videos
Aeon Video has a monthly newsletter!Get curated editors’ picks, peeks behind the scenes, film recommendations and more. Making students learn to execute similar operations using three different kinds of notation – as in the case of exponents, logarithms and roots – is a bit like asking them to learn to say the same thing in three different languages for no good reason. With such counterintuitive a
The logic of Buddhist philosophy goes beyond simple truth | Aeon Essays
Beyond true and falseBuddhist philosophy is full of contradictions. Now modern logic is learning why that might be a good thingby Graham Priest + BIO Graham Priestis distinguished professor of philosophy at City University of New York and professor emeritus at the University of Melbourne. His latest book is One (2014). He lives in New York. Western philosophers have not, on the whole, regarded Bud
Children today are suffering a severe deficit of play | Aeon Essays
The play deficitChildren today are cossetted and pressured in equal measure. Without the freedom to play they will never grow upby Peter Gray + BIO Peter Grayis a psychologist and research professor at Boston College. He writes the Freedom to Learn blog, and is the author of Free to Learn (2013) and Psychology (2011). When I was a child in the 1950s, my friends and I had two educations. We had sch
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The strange and turbulent global world of ant geopolitics | Aeon Essays
