Weekly Readings
(Readings with a * are suggested only.)
(Download Lahr's Math Notes weekly from the COCO 2 website.)
First Week: Sacred Times
Theogony
Enuma Elish: Pp. 1-115
Time and Reality in the Thought of the Maya: Pp. 0-13 and 35-90
*The Book of Genesis: Pp. 1-68
*Time and the Highland Maya: Pp. 198-207
Lahr's Math Notes: 1. Time Measurement
Second Week: Listen to the Greeks
Works and Days
Timaeus: Pp. 51-54
Physics IV: Sections 10-14
Empires of Time: Pp. 3-37
Lahr's Math Notes: 2. What is Time?
Third Week: Crossing the Boundaries: Philosophers and Mathematicians
No class Monday, January 18: MLK Day. Meet Tuesday (x-hour).
Hear no evil - speak no evil - Zeno evil
Looking Awry: Pp. 0-9
Death and the Compass
Lahr's Math Notes: 3. Zeno's Paradoxes
Fourth Week: Children of the Renaissance
The Role of Music in Galileo's Experiments
Richard the II: Pp. 152-155
The Sonnets: Pp. 82-87 / 106-7 / 114-15 / 138-39
Lahr's Math Notes: 4. Galileo's Time and Space
Fifth Week: A World of Reason
Time: An Essay: Pp. 93-141
Discourse: Pp. 91-110
Principles: Pp. 310-337
*Empires of Time: Pp. 325-341
Lahr's Math Notes: 5. Newton's Time and Space
Sixth Week: Time to Reconsider
No class Friday, February 12: Winter Carnival.
Wolf Man
L'Horloge
Le Voyage
The Bells
Lahr's Math Notes: 6. Background: Spatial Coordinates
Seventh Week: On Relativity
Eternal Recurrence: Pp. 249-262
The Night Face Up
Circular Ruins
The South
*Clocks and the Cosmos
Lahr's Math Notes: 7. Einstein and Relativity
Eighth Week: Time as the Fourth Dimension
The Quantum Physics of Time Travel
100 Years of Solitude
Lahr's Math Notes: 8. The Fourth Dimension and Space-Time
Ninth Week: No Time/New Times: Towards the year 2000
The Two Cultures: Pp. I-51
100 Years of Solitude
The Bible Code
*Rethinking Anthropology: "Two Essays Concerning the Symbolic Representation of Time"
Lahr's Math Notes: 9. The Relativity of Simultaneity
Tenth Week: Past, Present, and Elsewhere
100 Years of Solitude