Re: Anachronisms in LOTR

Stan Brown wrote:
> Democritus was nearer right than his contemporaries, but I don't 
> think it's fair to say that modern science proved him correct.

It turns out that the atoms (indivisibles) have parts.


> He was essentially guessing, just as his contemporaries were. The 
> big problem with Greek science is that nearly all of it was guesses, 
> with very little experiment to confirm or refute those guesses. 

The Ionians were closer to being empiricists than other Greek thinkers, 
but their mode never really caught on in Greece, especially Athans.

Bob Kolker