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    Three Scientists of the Ancient World: Anaxagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia
    Three Scientists of the Ancient World: Anaxagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia
    Three Scientists of the Ancient World: Anaxagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia
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    Three Scientists of the Ancient World: Anaxagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia

    By John Wain and Laszlo Solymar

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    These plays cover one thousand years of the ancient world from the golden age of Athens to 5th century Alexandria. The protagonists are Anaxagoras, Archimedes and Hypatia, scientists, mathematicians, philosophers. All three of them came into conflict with the prevalent views of the time.

    Anaxagoras maintained that the sun was a big burning rock of the size of the Peleponnesus. He was condemned to death on the charge of impiety.

    Archimedes, the first example of the efficacy of technology combined with science, built fortifications that could withstand the might of the Roman Army. His popular fame rests on him shouting Eureka and jumping naked out of his bath when he discovered the laws of Hydrostatics. He is also known by his statement: give me a fixed point and I shall move the Earth.

    Hypatia was a philosopher and mathematician, a believer in the old faith. She was hacked to death by a bunch of monks at the instigation of Cyril, a Saint of the Christian Church.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAuthorHouse UK
    Release dateApr 15, 2013
    ISBN9781481789486
    Three Scientists of the Ancient World: Anaxagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia
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    John Wain

    Laszlo Solymar was born and educated in Hungary. In the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution, he escaped to England. He joined the University of Oxford in 1966 where he is now an emeritus professor. During his career, he had visiting professorships at the Universities of Paris, Copenhagen, Osnabruck, Berlin, Madrid, and Budapest.

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      Three Scientists of the Ancient World - John Wain

      © 2013 by John Wain and Laszlo Solymar. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 04/12/2013

      ISBN: 978-1-4817-8947-9 (sc)

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      ANAXAGORAS ARCHIMEDES HYPATIA

      John Barrington Wain (1925-1994) the English poet, novelist, playwright and critic was educated at St John’s College, Oxford. He was known as one of the ‘Angry Young Men’ who opposed the conservative literary establishment of the middle of the 20th century. He taught at the University of Reading in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He was the first Fellow in Creative Arts (1971-1972) at Brasenose College, Oxford. In 1973 he was elected to the five year post of Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford. He received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1974 for his work as a critic, and the Whitbread Prize in 1982 for his novel ‘Young Shoulders’. His services to literature earned him the CBE in 1984.

      Laszlo Solymar was born and educated in Hungary. In the aftermath of the Hungarian Revolution he escaped to England. He joined the University of Oxford in 1966 where he is now an Emeritus Professor. During his career he had Visiting Professorships at the Universities of Paris, Copenhagen, Osnabruck, Berlin, Madrid, Budapest and London.

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      John Wain

      ANAXAGORAS

      Anaxagoras received its first production on BBC Radio 4 on 20 November, 1991. The cast was as follows:

      ANAXAGORAS

      ANNOUNCER: Athens, 440 B.C. There has been an election. The citizens are streaming down from the Pnyx, the hill on which they assemble to vote. Two ordinary Athenians, Metagenes and Pyrrhon have fallen into company.

      METAGENES: Hello, Pyrrhon, all right?

      PYRRHON: Yes, and you?

      METAGENES: You turned out to vote, then.

      PYRRHON: Wouldn’t miss it.

      METAGENES: Certainly went the right way this time, didn’t it?

      PYRRHON: Certainly did. No surprises, mind.

      METAGENES: The only thing I was afraid of was over-confidence. You know, people just not bothering to turn up and cast their vote for Pericles because he was such a hot favourite.

      PYRRHON: It was a racing certainty he’d come first out of the ten. Everybody said so.

      METAGENES: That’s what I mean. If enough people think it’s a cert they don’t show up.

      PYRRHON: Specially on a day like this. You could hardly touch the stones up there.

      METAGENES: The pebbles felt hot in the hand. I never knew that before.

      PYRRHON: Nice to get down here where the houses give a bit of shade. Here, let’s go into Nino’s and have a drink. He keeps the place nice and cool.

      (Fade down. Tavern buzz. Fade up to

      cool clink and pouring.)

      METAGENES: Ah, that’s better. Cools you down, this stuff.

      PYRRHON: Unless you have too much. Starts heating you up again then.

      METAGENES: Ah, we shan’t have too much. Not at Nino’s prices. Well—here’s to Pericles, the greatest man in Athens!

      PYRRHON: To Pericles.

      (They drink.)

      PYRRHON: And I’ll give you another one. To democracy!

      METAGENES: I’ll drink to that. To democracy!

      PYRRHON: Best system in the world!

      METAGENES: And we are the only ones who have it.

      PYRRHON: Ah, we’re the only ones with the intelligence, mate. The maturity.

      METAGENES: Now you’re talking.

      PYRRHON: It’s not a system for overgrown kids.

      METAGENES: It’s a system for grown-up people.

      PYRRHON: People who know how to choose the right representatives. Here, have some… Oh, it’s empty. We’ve finished it.

      METAGENES: It wasn’t a very big pitcher. We’d better have another one.

      PYRRHON: What at Nino’s prices?

      METAGENES: It’s a special occasion. We’ve got something to celebrate. A good turn-out for Pericles. A good day for democracy.

      PYRRHON: Another pitcher here, darling! Right, that’s lovely. I’ll give you a toast, Metagenes—to Athens and democracy!

      METAGENES: To Athens and democracy.

      (Fade)

      ASPASIA: Pericles… How did it go today, my darling?

      PERICLES: Thanks for asking, but how did what in particular go? A head of state has so many responsibilities.

      ASPASIA: I know you well enough. There was one thing that was preying on your mind this morning. The meeting you were going to have with that crowd down at the Treasury.

      PERICLES (a little wearily): Oh… We had a long discussion.

      ASPASIA: Your life is all long discussions, isn’t it?

      PERICLES: That’s what democracy is my love. (Doubtfully.) Well, I’m afraid they’re still after Phidias.

      ASPASIA: That doesn’t surprise me. He’s just the type that crowd would be envious of. People like that don’t deserve great art.

      PERICLES (struggling to be fair): Well, they don’t of course deny that his work as a sculptor is one of the glories of Athens.

      ASPASIA: No, they don’t deny it, they just want to pull him down like a pack of hounds pulling down a stag. The real crime of Phidias is that his sculptures have done so much to make Athens beautiful. And that type doesn’t like beauty.

      PERICLES: Oh come…

      ASPASIA: You know it’s true. Beautiful things make them uncomfortable. They’ve no means of responding to beauty so they hate it. And they hate people who have the gift of creating it.

      PERICLES: But Aspasia, my love, this is all part of living in a democracy. Even a genius like Phidias is

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