Tag: Middle Ages
What the West Lost: Berlinski on Human Nature
From his home next door to Notre Dame Cathedral, Dr. Berlinski also muses on the cathedral fire and contemporary France’s inability to build anything like the great cathedral.
A Watch on a Heath — But What a Watch!
Recently I had the opportunity to see Prague’s famed astronomical clock, the oldest still-working astronomical clock in the world. It is truly phenomenal.
Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design — Unique Opportunity for the Sincerely Curious Learner
Recently I spoke to a university senior who is a leader in a political club at her school. I wondered how things were going for the club.
“No Astronomical Investigations of Importance” in the Middle Ages? Not True!
Michael Keas offers an important corrective to falsehoods that students are still learning at this very moment.
Listen: “Not Dark Ages After All”
Educated people in the medieval period were well aware that the Earth is round, a fact immediately evident when you see a lunar eclipse.