Sunday, May 22, 2011

Taiwan photos 14

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A bookstore in the Sogo department store.




With a statue of Chinese polymath (astronomer, mathematician, poet, inventor) Zhang Heng at the Tapei Astronomical Museum.




3 comments:

  1. Al_Li5:33 PM

     Go to the religion section of the bookstore and read some Buddhist books. In no time you will find that Chinese discovered the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle thousands of years before Heisenberg. 

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  2. But surely these Buddhist claims are the result of mystical ruminations rather than rigorous, scientific deductions? I seem to remember Plato saying something about knowledge being justified true belief...

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  3. The picture looks like you are channeling the powers of Zhang Heng. :)

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