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800 BCE PreChristian
Views of creativity centered around social values and associated with mystical powers. Male's possessed the power to create and could be passed to his children. -
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550 -479 BCE Confucious, Taoists and Buddists
Emphasis on natural cycles. The idea of creation of something from nothing had no place in a universe of Yin and Yang. -
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200 AD Genesis- The Age of the Bible
Man is the artisan of god on Earth. -
Jan 1, 1473
1473 Copernicus
To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.
-Nicolaus Copernicus -
Jan 1, 1564
1564 Galileo
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
- Galileo -
1588-1679Hobbes
Hobbes was the first to recognize how constructive and important human imagination can be.
