Aristotle , Time Is a Measure of Change Augustine, Book XI, sections X-XXXI Confessions, Is Newton, “Time Absolute” Secondary readings: E. Edison and E. Savage-Smith, Bodleian library, Oxford Medieval Views of the Cosmos, 2004 James Trefil, Smithonian Books, Space, Time, Infinity: The Smithsonian Views the Universe, Washington, 1985 John Barrow, 2008: Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science, The Symmetries of pp. 255-257 “Shapeliness: Life” Painting by numbers: the famous five: Platonic solids 266-270 Does God play football 272-279 (Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings) Week 7 McTaggart of “The Unreality Time” Mellor of “The Unreality Tense” Shoemaker “Time without Change” Lewis paradoxes of time “The travel” R. Le Poidevin Oxford, 2005, (pp. Travels in Four dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time, 52-72—on Kant) III. Perspective Week 8 Schelling, Friedrich, Bruno, or, On the Natural and the Divine Principle of Things Eva C. Keuls, (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition) (Brill Plato and Greek Painting Academic Pub, 1997)
Aristotle , Time Is a Measure of Change Augustine, Confessions, Book XI, sections X-XXXI Newton, “Time Is Absolute” Secondary readings: E. Edison and E. Savage-Smith, Medieval Views of the Cosmos, Bodleian library, Oxford 2004 James Trefil, Space, Time, Infinity: The Smithsonian Views the Universe, Smithonian Books, Washington, 1985 John Barrow, Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science, 2008: “Shapeliness: The Symmetries of Life” pp. 255-257 Painting by numbers: the famous five: Platonic solids 266-270 Does God play football 272-279 (Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings) Week 7 McTaggart “The Unreality of Time” Mellor “The Unreality of Tense” Shoemaker “Time without Change” Lewis “The paradoxes of time travel” R. Le Poidevin Travels in Four dimensions: The Enigmas of Space and Time, Oxford, 2005, (pp. 52-72—on Kant) III. Perspective Week 8 Schelling, Friedrich, Bruno, or, On the Natural and the Divine Principle of Things Eva C. Keuls, Plato and Greek Painting (Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition) (Brill Academic Pub, 1997)
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