
Early Greek Philosophy, The Milesians: Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes - #509
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Is There a Centre?
It's a very natural error to think of hot and cold as two opposed forces early on, he says. But it is the case that we have different receptors for hot and cold - they feel different. Stratos does the first thingsthat we can definitely call in the modern scientific censor: experiments with vacuums. He doesn't discover heavy and light objects fall at the same rate once you remove air resistance. The way he figures this out is rickan an brillan but maybe next time we'll be truly out of time.
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