Comparative Literature and Culture 1020 Quiz: Lysistrata
18 Apr 2016
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Music: sexual healing by marvin gaye: never put on an album, one album (what"s going on) was very religious and the next album that followed was entirely about sex (let"s get it on) Greek science: begins in asia minor 25 may 505 bc eclipse predicted and thus introducing the beginning of science, pythagoras (570-500bc) spent most of life on tip of italy. Greatest discovery was in music: octave = 2:1; fifth = 3:2; fourth = 4:3. Astounded by extraordinary simplicity of concordance principles math holds the key to all knowledge: all is mathematics , pythagorean"s theorem, eight notes in a scale eight planets in our universe: music of the spheres. Music of the spheres it"s always there but we never hear it: zeno of elea (ca 450 bc) paradoxes, achilles and the tortoise: race between the two. Static in space, how is it that the arrow moves: aristotle (380s-320s) organized sciences, wrote on a little bit of everything.
