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Tag: aristotle

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2542: Hippodamus of Miletus

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on December 22, 2020 · Episode: 2542 Hippodamus of Miletus and Urban Design. Today, a grid for the ages.

Tags aristotle greek Hippodamian plan Hippodamus Of Miletus Manhattan Miletus Piraeus politics urban planning

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1942: The Power of Air and Steam

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on October 11, 2020 · Episode: 1942 Before the steam engine: seeing solidity in air and steam. Today, we just begin to invent the steam engine.

Tags air alchemy alexander aristotle atomism atoms Ctesibios Ctsebios gases Hellenic Hellenistic world Hero's turbine Heron of Alexandria Ktesibios Ktsebios Philon of Byzantium pneumatics steam engines water organ

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1898: Pierre Gassendi

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 26, 2020 · Episode: 1898 What happened after Galileo? Pierre Gassendi happened! Today, what happened after Galileo?

Tags air pressure analytical mechanics Aristotelianism aristotle atomism Cyrano de Bergerac Empedocles galileo gravity newton physics Pierre Gassendi speed of sound

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1891: Earth, Air, Fire, & Water

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on June 15, 2020 · Episode: 1891 Earth, Air, Fire, & Water — Love & Hate. Today, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water.

Tags air alchemy and Water aristotle darwin earth Empedocles evolution fire Mourelatos rhetoric science speed of light

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3051: Rhetoric

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on May 14, 2020 · Episode: 3051 The Art of Rhetoric. Today, do facts speak for themselves?

Tags aristotle greece plato rhetoric sophistry trivium

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2228: Ancient Explanations of Bird Migration

Richard H. Armstrong

Posted on August 7, 2019 · Episode: 2228 Ancient Explanations of Bird Migrations. Today, our guest, classicist Richard Armstrong, watches the ancients studying bird migrations.  

Tags aristotle avian bird migrations bird watching Crans Garden Warblers greece Homer's Iliad marshlands Olaus Magnus ornithology Pliny the Elder Redstarts Robins Stork transmutation zoology

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2868: Scholasticism

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on February 21, 2019 · Episode: 2868 Scholasticism: Reason or Revelation?  Today, reason or revelation?

Tags Aquinas aristotle faith Middle Ages reason Scholasticism Western Civilization

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1543: Ceredi’s Pump

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on July 23, 2018 · Episode: 1543 Archimedes’ pump, rediscovered by Ceredi, heralds the new science. Today, meet the person who reinvented Archimedes’ pump.

Tags agricultural engineering aristotle galileo hydraulics invention mechanics philosophy

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1508: Alchemy

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on May 7, 2018 · Episode: 1508 The alchemists and chemistry before the middle 19th century. Today, we remember alchemy.

Tags aristotle caloric essences green Meredith phlogiston science

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1447: Eighteenth-Century Factory Maintenance

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on December 29, 2017 · Episode: 1447 18th-C factory maintenance: messier than Diderot showed us. Today, a question of image and reality.  

Tags aristotle Billings Montgolfier Brothers paper making printing Greek propaganda run to failure

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2594: Ptolemy’s Geographia

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on June 6, 2017 · Episode: 2594 Mapping the World: Ptolemy's Geographia. Today, a man and a map.

Tags Almagest aristotle cartography Eratosthenes Geographia geography latitude longitude maps Marinos of Tyre mathematical projection Ptolemy

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2229: Children and Science

Dr. John Lienhard

Posted on April 24, 2017 · Episode: 2229 Hurdles that children must leap to learn science. Today, children and science.

Tags aristotle biology children learning consciousness creationism Deena Skolnick Weisberg early development epistemology evolution gravity Newton's laws of motion Paul Bloom psychology religion round Earth science education

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 2542: Hippodamus of Miletus

Dr. Andy Boyd

Posted on January 10, 2017 · Episode: 2542 Hippodamus of Miletus and Urban Design. Today, a grid for the ages.

Tags aristotle greek Hippodamian plan Hippodamus Of Miletus Manhattan Miletus Piraeus politics urban planning

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 1221: Acoustics

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on September 12, 2016 · Episode: 1221 Large hall acoustics: drifting away from reality Today, we try to hear the music in a large hall.

Tags aristotle music sound vitruvius wren

Engines Podcast

Engines of Our Ingenuity 3051: Rhetoric

Engines of Our Ingenuity

Posted on March 10, 2016 · Episode: 3051 The Art of Rhetoric Today, do facts speak for themselves?

Tags aristotle greece plato rhetoric sophistry trivium

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