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2008
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[Sunday 24 August 2008 - Saturday 30 August 2008]
[Notebook: DB 64 Gravitation]
[page 89]
Sunday 24 August 2008
Monday 25 August 2008
Tuesday 26 August 2008
I am amazed by the emotional load attached to the hypothesis that the universe is divine. One should expect this hypothesis to stand by itself, without reference to any concrete history. In a fully complexified world, however, every event has a unique history which gives it a unique identity, as does the genealogy of an individual.
I go forward by exploiting formalism, but then the emotional (concrete) side of me has to catch up, fleshing out the formalism into my life.
[page 90]
Wednesday 27 August 2008
Real = full concrete detail,. ie ordering every quantum of action into a history tree.
Formalism takes us out of the 'Pythagorean' atmosphere of number mysticism and numerology common to both Greek and Chinese beginnings. Needham III page 54. Needham
Thursday 28 August 2008
Friday 29 August 2008
Saturday 30 August 2008
Books
| Needham, Joseph, Science and Civilisation in China (Volume 1) Introductory Orientations, Cambridge UP 1954 Jacket: 'This is the exciting first instalment of a comprehensive work . . . The author has set himself to interpret the Chinese mind in Western terms, and he is perhaps unique among living scholars in possessing the necessay combination of qualifications for this formidable undertaking. The practical importance of Dr Needham's work is as great as its intellectual interest. It is a westerm act of 'recognition' on a higher plane than the diplomatic one.' Arnold Toynbee, The Observer, London. Amazon back |
| Needham, Joseph, Science and Civilisation in China (Volume 2) History of Scientific Thought, Cambridge UP 1956 Amazon back |
| Needham, Joseph, Science and Civilisation in China (Volume 3) Mathematics and the Sciences of the Heavens and the Earth, Cambridge UP 1959 Amazon back |
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