Part 20 (1/1)

15 astrologers of ancient Babylon used a double clock

Fred Polak, The Image of the Future (Amsterdam: Elsevier Scientific, 1973), p. 5.

16 will still linger there-still trapping heat

Daniel Schrag, personal interview.

17 ”need to enlarge knowledge, through the development of sciences and arts”

Mike Salvaris, ”The Idea of Progress in History: Future Directions in Measuring Australia's Progress,” Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2010.

18 ”earthly to heavenly things, and from the visible to the invisible”

Robert Nisbet, ”The Idea of Progress,” Literature of Liberty: A Review of Contemporary Liberal Thought 2, no. 1 (1979).

19 China as a guide for those who wish to progress

Peter Hubral, ”The Tao: Modern Pathway to Ancient Wisdom,” Philosopher 98, no. 1 (2010), /dutch-painters/dutch_art/leeuwenhoek.html.

23 been invented in Holland less than a century earlier

n.o.bel Media, ”Microscopes: Time Line,” /camera_obscura/co_one.html; Philip Steadman, ”Vermeer and the Camera Obscura,” BBC History, February 17, 2011, sov, ”Importance of Charles Lyell's Works for the Formation of Scientific Geological Ideology,” Lithology and Mineral Resources 46, no. 2 (2011): 18697; Mark Lewis, ”The History of the Future,” Forbes, October 15, 2007.

28 4.5 billion, we now know

”History of Life on Earth,” BBC Nature, sov, ”Importance of Charles Lyell's Works for the Formation of Scientific Geological Ideology.”

30 Aristotle wrote that the end of a thing defines its essential nature

Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics, Book 2, Section 1219a.

31 More than a decade before writing Faust