Re: [Phys-l] Centrifugal redux

[Jack Uretsky <jlu@hep.anl.gov>]

Hi-
	Dirty politics!
	Aristotle could not have known the  creation story because it 
would not be written until almost a millenium after Aristotle's time.
						Regards,
							Jack

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Hugh Haskell wrote:

> At 22:13 -0400 04/01/2009, chuck britton wrote:
> > I am more impressed by Aristotle 'knowing' that men had one fewer
> > ribs than women - because of the creation story.
> > And not bothering to count the number of teeth in the human mouth
> > before 'publishing'.
> 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). 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?
>
> Hugh

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