India: Crash Course History of Science #4
Re-uploaded because there was an error with a map ** You might have recognized the names of some of the Greek natural philosophers. They were individuals with quirky theories, and we have...
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You might have recognized the names of some of the Greek natural philosophers. They were individuals with quirky theories, and we have records about them. But they weren’t the only people making knowledge back in the day. India had major urban centers, centralized administrative states, and complicated metaphysical traditions long before the Greeks had anything big— just goats, which are small. And olive trees, which are bigger than goats but still small. And a few gods and goddesses doing normal stuff like cheating on each other. In Indian scriptures, thousands of gods and demons made perpetual war, destroying and recreating reality itself! Ancient Indian thinkers didn’t give rise to the same natural philosophy as the Greeks. India presents a conveni...
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You might have recognized the names of some of the Greek natural philosophers. They were individuals with quirky theories, and we have records about them. But they weren’t the only people making knowledge back in the day. India had major urban centers, centralized administrative states, and complicated metaphysical traditions long before the Greeks had anything big— just goats, which are small. And olive trees, which are bigger than goats but still small. And a few gods and goddesses doing normal stuff like cheating on each other. In Indian scriptures, thousands of gods and demons made perpetual war, destroying and recreating reality itself! Ancient Indian thinkers didn’t give rise to the same natural philosophy as the Greeks. India presents a conveni...
