Thursday, 8 December 2016 | 18:30-20:30
ONASSIS LIBRARY
(56, Amalias Ave., Metro Station: ACROPOLIS)
FOR PEOPLE 18+

During the Enlightenment ideas and notions about the universe are changing radically. The geocentric system give way to new discoveries of Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler and Newton. What was the worldview of the Greeks in the 18th century? What were the spiritual barriers which Greeks had to overcome in order to follow the new natural philosophy that was developing rapidly in the West? What are the similarities with the situation in the education and science today in Greece? Does Greece need a new Enlightenment?

Speaker:
Dimitri Nanopoulos, Member of the Academy of Athens, Distinguished Professor of high energy physics at the University of Texas A&M

Free Admission: All the educational programs of the Onassis Foundation are free of charge and participation is on a first-come, first-served basis. Please book your place at education@onassis.org or call us at +30 210 37 13 000 (Monday-Friday 9:00-17:00).