This lovely story of a Castilla y León government tender for a small investigative boat which already included the name of the winner, a company linked to the governing party, reminded me of this beautiful idea re (some of) the Greeks in Martha’s dad’s book:
Travel alone was not enough to create ‘science’. These thinkers also lived in communities which were held together by impersonal laws. As a result, they tended to explain the universe by underlying law too, and metaphors of ‘justice’ and ‘requital’ were sometimes important in their account of change.
But:
It is too vague, though, to ascribe the ‘birth of scientific thought’ to the existence among Greeks of the citizen-community, or polis.
Never mind.
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