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From: a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com (A. P. Garcia)
Subject: [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:12:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFCBnZscLQFERNVy4LmLDNxDdeOWq5fZXCE86AvaR5PNaZoGNw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B8624EE-EB25-4029-8C35-8F8266107D2C@tfeb.org>

On Mar 20, 2018 2:58 PM, "Tim Bradshaw" <tfb at tfeb.org> wrote:

This seems like an unduly complicated theory.  Maxwell had a good
19th-century Scottish gentleman's education (he knew great chunks of
Paradise Lost by heart as a child) and he would have been far more familiar
with classical literature than most scientists are today as a result.
Chances are he knew what daemons were in mythology because he'd  read
either the Greek originals or Latin translations at school & university.


Given that, he could also have read about them in Plato's Republic when he
discusses the myth of Er at the end of the work.
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  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-20 21:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-20  1:26 A. P. Garcia
2018-03-20  1:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-20  1:47 ` maxigas
2018-03-20  4:23 ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-20  4:24   ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-20  4:40     ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-20  5:19       ` A. P. Garcia
2018-03-21  2:31       ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-03-21  3:20         ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21  4:30         ` Warner Losh
2018-03-21  4:52         ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-21  9:16         ` Jaap Akkerhuis
2018-03-22  0:18           ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-22  0:22             ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22  2:25               ` [TUHS] syslog (was Re: daemons are not to be exorcised) Jeremy C. Reed
2018-03-21 13:59         ` [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised Clem Cole
2018-03-21 14:18           ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 15:15             ` Warner Losh
2018-03-21 15:45               ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-21 15:49                 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-22  0:28           ` Grant Taylor
2018-03-20  6:32   ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-20 12:31   ` Nemo
2018-03-20 17:48 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-20 17:56   ` George Michaelson
2018-03-20 18:04     ` Dan Cross
2018-03-20 18:24       ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-20 18:46         ` Clem Cole
2018-03-20 19:10           ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-20 19:55             ` Dan Cross
2018-03-20 19:56           ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-03-20 21:12             ` A. P. Garcia [this message]
2018-03-20 21:40               ` Andy Kosela
2018-03-21  6:32             ` Wesley Parish
2018-03-20 20:14           ` Warren Toomey
2018-03-20 20:25             ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-20 21:15               ` Clem Cole
2018-03-20 21:09             ` Clem Cole
2018-03-20 18:53         ` Toby Thain
2018-03-20 19:24       ` Nemo Nusquam
2018-03-21 12:10     ` emanuel stiebler
2018-03-25 19:56     ` emanuel stiebler
2018-03-26  9:44       ` George Michaelson
2018-03-26 12:38         ` emanuel stiebler
2018-03-20 21:32 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2018-03-21 14:17 Noel Chiappa
2018-03-21 15:03 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 16:18   ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:28     ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:33       ` George Michaelson
2018-03-21 17:50         ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 19:49           ` A. P. Garcia
2018-03-21 19:37         ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 17:34       ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-22  2:24         ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-21 17:39       ` WIlliam Cheswick
2018-03-21 17:52         ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-21 17:56       ` Nemo
2018-03-21 18:01         ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-21 18:04       ` Dan Cross
2018-03-21 19:56         ` Clem Cole
2018-03-21 20:13           ` Paul Winalski

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