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Neue mathematische Prinzipien der Naturphilosophie
В начале были Начала. Математические, натуральной философии. В них был предложен закон тяготения, с безрассудной смелостью объявленный универсальным. Ньютон решил задачу двух тел. Со скрипом – частный случай задачи трех тел. Что делать далее ему было не ясно; написать уравнения … Continue reading
Флатландия
Как все московские детки, увлекающиеся математикой, в нежном возрасте я прочитал “Флатландию”. Книга преподносилась, как занимательное описание геометрии “изнутри”, перемежающeeся едкой сатирой на чопорных викторианцев. И то и другое показалось нудноватым. Лет в 30 (не помню уже почему) я решил … Continue reading
Что такое Просвещение? // Was ist Aufklärung?
Деятели Просвещения были слишком заняты, чтобы дать определение своей деятельности. Если не считать парадные портреты набальзамированного трупа, изготовленные людьми, которые и калоши-то вряд ли смогли бы определить, за последние 250 лет серьезных попыток было две – Кантом и Фуко, причем … Continue reading
Imagine
Imagine there’s no heaven It’s easy if you try No hell below us Above us only sky Imagine all the people living for today… I do not need to imagine ALL the people living for today. I’ve seen such people … Continue reading
The reign of Acetaria. Why do we eat salads?
An admission: I do not fancy leafy salads, despite the chorus of medical opinion telling me how wonderfully healthy and refreshing these herbs are supposed to be. As my wife stands firmly by their beneficial effects, I cannot escape their … Continue reading
The Leviathan
…He that is to govern a whole nation must read in himself mankind. When I shall have set down my own reading orderly and perspicuously, the pains left another will be only to consider if he also find not the … Continue reading
And still, it turns…
Plato did not think small. You have to give it to him… If you were asked to define a politician, I bet you won’t first work out a cosmological theory telling that such a definition needs to be given twice: … Continue reading
Пластилиновые человеки
Любимое место у Спенсера: …The worship of the legislature is, in one respect, indeed, less excusable than the fetish-worship. The savage has the defence that his fetish is silent—does not confess its inability. But the civilized man persists in ascribing … Continue reading
De la démonomanie des Sorciers // The inception of progress
(for FB, who promised a versified epitaph!) In reflecting upon itself, progress has developed a purely regressive narrative about its own development: in its glory day, it was a great and noble idea that was subsequently corrupted by zealots and … Continue reading
Making a difference in the world
This is something I hear every day: how a person should make a difference in the world. Presumably, this is about “improving the world.” Then why is it called “making a difference?” What does it mean? All idioms ivolving “make” … Continue reading