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That book was the last surviving manuscript of an ancient Roman philosophical epic, On the Nature of Things, by Lucretius a beautiful poem of the most dangerous ideas: that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life, and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions.
According to one such argument, we assume that the heavenly bodies are engaged in eternal motion.
The book of poetry, now more than 2000 years old, is a call to radical ideas, such as that the universe functioned without the aid of gods, that religious fear was damaging to human life and that matter was made up of very small particles in eternal motion, colliding and swerving in new directions.
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Anaximander postulated eternal motion, along with the apeiron, as the originating cause of the world.
"With no beginning, middle, or end," Cyclicscape's press release explains, "the forms symbolize an eternal cycle of existence of nature and the universe in perpetual motion".
Chapter 8, 1073a10ff, a discussion about the idea that "each of these movements [viz. the eternal motions of the planets] also must be caused by a substance both unmovable in itself and eternal…" (BWA 882; 1073a32).
They could, therefore, move only in perfect, eternal, unchanging motion, which, by Plato's definition, meant perfect circles.
So it's surprising and disappointing to get to the end, after we've languished in eternal Ph.D. programs, then languished in a series of eternal postdoc positions, only to encounter a massive, slow-motion herd-culling cut that leaves most of us wondering where to go and what to do next.
"We believe in eternal progression".
May she rest in eternal peace.
Rest in eternal peace, our dear Andrew.
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