4 ideas
3648 | Empiricists are collecting ants; rationalists are spinning spiders; and bees do both [Bacon] |
1748 | Archelaus was the first person to say that the universe is boundless [Archelaus, by Diog. Laertius] |
16745 | No one even knows the nature and properties of a fly - why it has that colour, or so many feet [Bacon,R] |
5989 | Archelaus said life began in a primeval slime [Archelaus, by Schofield] |