Re: [Phys-l] Centrifugal redux

[chuck britton <cvbritton@embarqmail.com>]

On Apr 1, 2009, at Apr 1(Wed) 10:31 , Hugh Haskell wrote:

> I have wondered about that rib thing. Did he really write that, or is
> that story a figment of someone's imagination (as are many of such
> stories).

	Goes back as far as the 16th century with Vesalius attempting to  
modernize medicine - to the consternation of the church.

> How much would he have known about the Hebrew tradition in
> his day? I'm sure that there was some interaction between the Hebrews
> and the Greeks before Aristotle's day, but was that myth part of the
> Greek mainstream, so that he would have been a believer of it rather
> than a Greek polytheist, as were most of his contemporaries?

The rib myth goes back as far as the Babylonians.