Historical Thread of Creativity across Cultures

By lloyd-l
  • 100

    800 BCE PreChristian

    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.
  • 100

    550 -479 BCE Confucious, Taoists and Buddists

    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

    200 AD Genesis- The Age of the Bible

    200 AD Genesis- The Age of the Bible
    Man is the artisan of god on Earth.
  • Jan 1, 1473

    1473 Copernicus

    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

    1564 Galileo
    β€œAll 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.