Invitation to the Psalms
The Hebrew poetry of the Psalms is marked especially by this poetic device
What is parallelism?
Not the battle for Troy, but this is the point of the Iliad
What is the rage / revenge of Achilles?
'Begin, Muse...'
Who is Homer?
Boorstin's hero
Who is Man the Discoverer?
Humanity's first step in mastering daily time measure was this device, which measures the sun's shadow
What is the sundial?
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Other ancient clocks used these resources (2)
The clock was the 'mother of machines,' primarily because of this 'essential connective tissue' in it
What are gears?
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Though small, these, too, were revolutionary for the making of machines
The authors dealt with the genre of different psalms in the two categories
What are form and content?
Who is Helen?
'Paris, appalling Paris! Our prince of beauty—made for women, you lure them all to ruin!'
Who is Hector?
Humanity's early calendars followed this heavenly body
What is the moon?
The first mechanical time measure was developed, surprisingly, in this religious community
What is a monastery?
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The meaning of glocke, the German root word for clock, which reflects the monastic role in its invention
This movement served the rise of clockmaking centers in Geneva, England, and elsewhere
What is the Reformation?
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The public clocks in the West contrasted with the private calendars in this place
Found at the beginning of several Psalms, these can help one understand their life situations
This Greek word signifies the heroic code in The Iliad
What is kleos?
'If I hold out here and I lay siege to Troy, my journey home is gone, but my glory never dies. If I voyage back to the fatherland I love, my pride, my glory dies ... True, but the life that’s left me will be long, the stroke of death will not come on me quickly.'
Who is Achilles?
This ancient people declared their independence from the moon, orienting their calendar rather around the sun
Who were the Egyptians?
A young Galileo discovered the principle of a pendulum's equal time when he was distracted during prayers by this swinging object
What is a lamp?
The 'awe of mountains' moved ancient people to build these 'artificial mountains
What were pyramids or ziggurats?
An example of this poetic device is found in Psalm 23:1: 'The LORD is my shepherd'
What is metaphor?
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A comparison using 'like' or 'as'
In a poignant scene at the city gates, Hector must resist her plea not to make his son an orphan and his wife a wisdom
Who is Andromache?
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Hector's son
"You don the deathless arms of a great fighter ... you killed his comrade, gentle, strong, and against all rights your ripped the immortal armor off his head and shoulders."
Who is Zeus?
The Romans named the days of the week after them
What are the planets?
The spring-driven clock was developed due to their need to determine longitude
Who were seafarers?
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His efforts were significant in the development of spring-clocks and a law of spring resistance was named after him
Boorstin argues that ancient people who disagreed on earth's geography largely agreed in their mapping of this 'world'
What is the Nether World or Hades?
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Boorstin calls him 'The most persuasive Christian geographer of heaven and hell'
What is five?
He makes Achilles new armor for his fight with Hector
Who is Hephaestus?
'Achilles— he’s made his own proud spirit so wild in his chest, so savage, not a thought for his comrades’ love— we honored him past all others by the ships ... Achilles, put some human kindness in your heart.'
Who is Ajax?
Boorstin argues that the human needs later 'divorced' into science and religion were 'married' in this ancient endeavor
What is astrology?
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This early Christian theologian refuted astrology
The Chinese emperors had been 'hidden away' from clock development until Matteo Ricci and others of this religious order came
What are Jesuit missionaries?
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The work of this ancient Chinese clockmaker had, sadly, been forgotten
He used and generalized the works of others in assembling his Geography and other writings
Who is Ptolemy?
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This lesser-known Greek geographer was 'perhaps the greatest' of them