#the map of knowledge

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03.23.2021 // research

I’m procrastinating doing my assigned readings for my class on Thursday by spending my morning reading a book that describes how knowledge was suppressed during the rise of Christianity and that tracks how manuscripts for modern theories in math, astronomy, and medicine survived through copying and translating. Currently tracking Euclid’s Elements, Ptolemy’s The Almagest, and Galen’s writings from AD 300 to AD 500.

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Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

R. G. Collingwood, The Map of Knowledge

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The sociability of artists is a paradoxical and precarious thing, and ceases the instant they begin their actual artistic work.

R. G. Collingwood, The Map of Knowledge