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mike king | writings | Concerning the Spiritual in Art and Science (5091 words) |
 | Science itself was not born with the Greeks (much of their 'science' was just plain wrong); its origins came with the Renaissance, but some of the ground for it was laid in the mathematics and logic of Greek thinkers. |
| We might say that the science (such as it was), art, and religion were closely integrated in the lives of the Greek thinkers and that their outlook on life was very different to ours today. |
| In fact modern science is generally hostile to the aspirations of the Theosophists because of its occult overtones; it is, as we shall see, more sympathetic to the transcendent, and more recently to the conventionally religious (or so it seems on the surface). |
| Science Fiction: The Early History (2084 words) |
| Therefore science fiction is the only literature capable of exploring the macrohistory of our species, and of placing our history, and even our daily lives, in a cosmic context. |
| For science fiction, like other forms of literature typical of industrial society, is propagated in mass-produced magazines and books, which require advanced manufacturing and distribution as well as a large literate audience. |
| The period of modern science, technology, and science fiction, which began with the Industrial Revolution just over 200 years ago, would then be equivalent on our spatial scale to.024 inches, about the thickness of a line made by a medium ball point pen. |
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