It doesn’t appear that anybody has noticed yet, but 2021 marks a rather important anniversary in the history of science and western civilization. It was 2,500 years ago this year that a philosopher ...

He was generally regarded as a heretic, but what was worse, he did not feel particularly bad about it. Indeed, he claimed to be a scientist and was merely trying to figure out how things worked. This ...

He was a friend of the first great democratic leaders, a colleague and mentor to philosophers, one of history’s first real scientists, a condemned heretic and a schoolmaster. Yet today is he is all ...