Articles concerning science and its origin, rational explanation of the universe against
mythology.
privative a, ἀ- , privative alpha, is a Greek prefix (originated in Indoeuropean) that expresses negation or absence of the concept meaning by the term to which it is attached.From Greek it came to Latin and from it to Spanish and other romance languages.
Read moreWheat, oil, wine, milk (often in the form of cheese) and honey are certainly the most characteristic foods in the Mediterranean world. Honey is used by man from the farthest prehistory
Read moreThe legendary and mythical foundation of Rome is dated 753 BC; then the Greeks recited the two great epics of the West, the Iliad and the Odyssey. One hundred and fifty years after the death of Alexander the Romans conquered Greece and declared it a Roman province, although a hundred years earlier they had already made contact with the Greeks of Sicily, the Magna Graecia, the Great Greece. Among the cultural contributions of Greece to the Romans highlights the Filososfía. But Latin lacks sufficient scientific terminology.
Read moreSamuel Noah Kramer (1897-1990) published his work "The story begins in Sumer", worldwide famous, in 1956. Certainly, many things started before, but the first written records are found in Sumer and so that's where we first talk about "History".
Read moreAstronomers, along with medical doctors, were certainly the best scientists valued in antiquity. Largely they are confused with "astrologers" and "healers", two activities connected with religion and the life of the temples.
Read moreIn the previous texts we have seen how some people believe that the stars fall as a result of a witch. But there are also who tries a more scientific explanation.
Read moreMan has taken thousands of years, from his appearing on earth, watching the sky, sometimes impressed by the thousands of bright spots, around 1,500 naked eye, moving or standing still, and other times frightened by the influence which the sky can have on their lives.
Read moreEach of the fingers has a name formed from its position, its size or function. So This the strongest is called thumb, index the second, middle the third, fourth ring and pinky the fifth and smaller.
Read moreThe action of the film Avatar, written and directed by James Cameron and released in 2009, is developed on Pandora, moon of the planet Polyphemus. Pandora and Polyphemus are two well known characters from Greek mythology
Read moreAlpha (Α α) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. Beta (Β, β) was the second. To be an "alpha" means to be the first of the group; to be a "beta" means to be the second.
Read moreThe Spanish word "ruido” (noise) comes from the Latin word “rugidus”, from where also comes the cultism “rugido” (roar/ roaring noise). The noise is an unpleasant sound to the ear and an annoying sound for the spirit. There are therefore numerous associations and movements that fight against what is also called "acoustic pollution”.
Read morePerhaps some reader has ever asked about so seemingly irrelevant question as the origin of the names "minute" and "second", the time’s dividers, but any knowledge is valuable.
Read moreAccording to tradition thousand times repeated, the famous Library of Alexandria disappeared in a great fire. It seems that this is the tragic end sooner or later to which all libraries are doomed.
Read moreEvery library should be well organized with well cataloged collections. The Library of Alexandria seems that it was organized so and somehow it laid the foundations of the art of librarianship.
Read moreThe claim of the Ptolemies was to collect "all books of all peoples of the earth" , perhaps following the advice of Demetrios of Falera . Certainly some of the stories that were told in antiquity reveal the passion of the Ptolemies to equip its library of Alexandria with the books which were in the known world. Sources also foreshadow the rivalry between the two great libraries of Alexandria and Pergamum.
Read moreWe know that the Library of Alexandria had pretensions to store all the universal knowledge of the time, but, how many volumes had actually?
Read moreAlexandria was the spiritual and cultural capital of the world from the third century BC to the fifth or sixth century AD. Under the largest library of Antiquity, which sought to retain all the knowledge stored in books systematically with exemplary sense of intellectual freedom, lived and worked a college or community of wise and educated persons and scholars who developed the physics, astronomy, mathematics, geometry, geography, engineering, medicine, philosophy, literature, grammar, rhetoric ... They were the basis of Western knowledge.
Read moreThe Iberian Peninsula was rich in minerals in Antiquity. Since ancient times minerals were prospected, found and exploited by Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans.
Read moreFew words are of more contemporary use than "compute, computer, and digital". Well, "compute, computing" are Latin words meaning of course calculating, counting, computing.
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