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246 | David Stuart on Time and Science in Maya Civilization
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Origins of Cosmology
Greeks and Romans didn't have a sense of a solar system. They recognized observable planets, differentiated them from the stars in the background. Their concept of what earth is is just the surface on which everything happens. And they frame their cosmology around these observations of the sun and of the planets,. These regular cycles create an elegant understanding of these things that I like to call indigenous science.
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