Historical Thread of Creativity across Cultures

By lloyd-l
  • 800 BCE PreChristian
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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.
  • 550 -479 BCE Confucious, Taoists and Buddists
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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.
  • 200 AD Genesis- The Age of the Bible
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    200 AD Genesis- The Age of the Bible

    Man is the artisan of god on Earth.
  • 1473 Copernicus
    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
  • 1564 Galileo
    Jan 1, 1564

    1564 Galileo

    “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.”
    - Galileo
  • 1588-1679Hobbes

    1588-1679Hobbes

    Hobbes was the first to recognize how constructive and important human imagination can be.