{"id":8597,"date":"2010-06-29T14:46:51","date_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/science-historian-cracks-the-plato-code\/"},"modified":"2010-06-29T14:46:51","modified_gmt":"2010-06-29T14:46:51","slug":"science-historian-cracks-the-plato-code","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/science-historian-cracks-the-plato-code\/","title":{"rendered":"Science historian cracks &#8220;the Plato code&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.manchester.ac.uk\/aboutus\/news\/display\/?id=5894'>Science historian cracks &#8220;the Plato code&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"link_description\">\n<blockquote><p>Plato was the Einstein of Greece\u2019s Golden Age and his work founded  Western culture and science. Dr Jay Kennedy\u2019s findings are set to  revolutionise the history of the origins of Western thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Dr  Kennedy, whose findings are published in the leading US journal <em>Apeiron<\/em>,  reveals that Plato used a regular pattern of symbols, inherited from  the ancient followers of Pythagoras, to give his books a musical  structure. A century earlier, Pythagoras had declared that the planets  and stars made an inaudible music, a \u2018harmony of the spheres\u2019. Plato  imitated this hidden music in his books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The hidden codes show  that Plato anticipated the Scientific Revolution 2,000 years before  Isaac Newton, discovering its most important idea \u2013 the book of nature  is written in the language of mathematics. The decoded messages also  open up a surprising way to unite science and religion. The awe and  beauty we feel in nature, Plato says, shows that it is divine;  discovering the scientific order of nature is getting closer to God.  This could transform today\u2019s culture wars between science and religion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;m curious to see more details on this, but it sounds pretty interesting&hellip;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Science historian cracks &#8220;the Plato code&#8221; Plato was the Einstein of Greece\u2019s Golden Age and his work founded Western culture and science. Dr Jay Kennedy\u2019s findings are set to revolutionise the history of the origins of Western thought. Dr Kennedy, whose findings are published in the leading US journal Apeiron, reveals that Plato used a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/29\/science-historian-cracks-the-plato-code\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Science historian cracks &#8220;the Plato code&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-link"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}