Published on May 27, 2015 The French Reformation gave us the Huguenots or French Calvinism. The Huguenot movement, though, is often not understood. This video tells the story of the Huguenots, French Calvinists, and the French Wars of Religion. Ryan Read More …
From Bondage to Freedom to the Industrial Revolution
Religious Toleration in the West
This file is also available in Adobe Acrobat PDF format CHAPTER 1 Religious Toleration: The Historical Problem Of all the great world religions past and present, Christianity has been by far the most intolerant. This statement may come as Read More …
Reconstruction of the Antikythera Mechanism
From Bondage to Freedom
The Industrial Revolution, from Bondage to Freedom The transition from the Middle Ages to the Modern World was not inevitable. How did it happen? The inception of Religious Tolerance was the first step. It might be said that the English Read More …
The Losers
Latin America Latin America has had almost two hundred years of political independence to graduate to economic independence. It remains, however, a mixed area, wanting in local initiative, technologically patchy, entrepreneurially needy. This pattern of arrested development reflects the tenacious Read More …
WHY EUROPE? WHY THEN?
Why Industrial Revolution there and then? The question is really twofold. First, why and how did any country break through the crust of habit and conventional knowledge to this new mode of production? After all, history shows other examples of Read More …
The Fragility of Complex Systems
Randolph Nesse Professor of Life Sciences, Director, Center for Evolution & Medicine, Arizona State University; Coauthor, Why We Get Sick On the morning of August 31, 1859, the sun ejected a giant burst of charged particles. They hit Read More …
Antikythera Time Line
This timeline with events directly or indirectly related to the Antikythera Mechanism was initially compiled by Alexander Jones and Yanis Bitsakis, for the volume “Antikythera Mechanism: the Book”. The page is regularly updated with new events. See also the database Read More …
The Antikythera Mechanism – 2D
A special video: Uploaded on Jun 25, 2011 More than 21 centuries ago, a mechanism of fabulous ingenuity was created in Greece, a device capable of indicating exactly how the sky would look for decades to come — the position Read More …
Decoding the Antikythera Mechanism, the First Computer
Hidden inscriptions offer new clues to the origins of a mysterious astronomical mechanism The scales on Fragment C divide the year by days and signs of the zodiac. By Jo Marchant Smithsonian Magazine | Subscribe February 2015 After 2,000 years under the sea, Read More …