Bust of Socrates: this piece, now in the Louvre, is an anonymous Italian first century marble presumed to be a copy of the original bronze by Lysippus (395-305 BCE) mentioned by Diogenes Laertius (Lives of the Philosophers, II.5.43).
The death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis
David (1748-1825). The original hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Want to hear what ancient Greek music sounded like? Visit the Ancient
Greek Music site at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Want to see what Rembrandt thought Aristotle looked like? Click
here.
Want to see a collaboration between Rembrandt and Matt Groening? Click
here.
Articles
How Is the Universe Built? Grain by Grain:
A December 1999 New York Times article on some ideas of contemporary physics
on the question of the infinite divisibility of space and time. (Relevance:
Zeno)
What’s So New in a Newfangled Science? A
June 2002 look at some “new” scientific ideas, including that of
“digital” (non-continuous) space and time. (Relevance: Zeno)
Scientists
Struggling to Make the Kilogram Right Again A May 2003 New York Times
article on the vicissitudes of the Standard Kilogram (it’s losing weight!)
and the effort to find a new definition. (Relevance: Plato’s Theory of
Forms, the Third Man Argument)
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