Eternal Gardens
Stories, ideas and history from the people behind Eternal Gardens: philosophers, inventors, legends and the worlds you can build with them.
Science and invention
Leonardo designed a flying machine, a parachute, an armoured vehicle and a 280-metre bridge. Here is where each is drawn, and which ones anyone actually built.
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Science and invention
Ada Lovelace's 'first program' is a 25-step table that works out a Bernoulli number. Here is how it runs, where the bug is, and why her credit is still argued over.
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Science and invention
Tesla vs Edison was a fight over how to send electricity. Here is how AC beat DC between 1882 and 1896, and which famous stories about the two rivals are myths.
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Science and invention
Tesla invented the induction motor, the polyphase AC system and the Tesla coil. He did not invent AC, X-rays or neon. Here is each claim, checked against the patents.
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Philosophy
Hays, Hammond, Hard, Waterfield or the free George Long? Compare Meditations translations side by side, see what the old translators said, and learn how to read the book.
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Philosophy
Some things are up to you and some are not. A plain guide to Stoicism's core ideas, the main Stoics, the best first book and seven exercises, quoted from the sources.
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Philosophy
Euthyphro on piety, Cephalus on justice and a boy doubling a square: three real Socratic method examples from Plato, with the steps and the classroom questions.
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Guides
AI versions of Socrates or Marcus Aurelius are interpretations, not the people. Here is how they work, why they slip, and how to ask so the answers hold up.
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