From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com (A. P. Garcia) Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2018 16:12:55 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] daemons are not to be exorcised In-Reply-To: <4B8624EE-EB25-4029-8C35-8F8266107D2C@tfeb.org> References: <20180320182445.5BBA8156E510@mail.bitblocks.com> <4B8624EE-EB25-4029-8C35-8F8266107D2C@tfeb.org> Message-ID: On Mar 20, 2018 2:58 PM, "Tim Bradshaw" 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: