... practical problems such knowledge was meant to be useful to the kingdom, broadly conceived.""5 This excerpt displays how the formulation of a sponsored scientific group can aid in the discovery of new ideas and inventions for the benefit of the entire populace. Another example is displayed through the spread of the ideas of Aristotle and Ptolemy to Europe through wars with nearby nations.6 In ... other words, politically- ignited wars spread the theories and truths of science. As the ideas spread, the old scientific theories of an area ... Mesmer to remain in France and continue his he...

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... It was probably expected, in fact, that Plato would enter politics as an intelligent young man of the ruling class. However, a pair of events turned Plato away from politics entirely. The first was the assumption of power by the Four Hundred and the Thirty, groups of powerful, wealthy citizens who seized control at the end of the Pelopennesian War and turned Athens into an oligarchy. Plato's feelings about ... such a government (which was tyrannical and unstable), even at a young age. But whatever relief he might have felt about the restoration of the Democracy disappeared when it execu...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate