If you feel like visiting Asia’s oldest observatory then your journey will take you all the way to Gyeongyu in South Korea.
If you feel like visiting Asia’s oldest observatory then your journey will take you all the way to Gyeongyu in South Korea.
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If your philosophy of [scientific] history claims that the sequence should have been A→B→C, and it is C→A→B, then your philosophy of history is wrong. You have to take the data of history seriously.
John S. Wilkins 30th August 2009
Culture is part of the unholy trinity—culture, chaos, and cock-up—which roam through our versions of history, substituting for traditional theories of causation. – Filipe Fernández–Armesto “Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration”