Today added to the site is a new article on Epicurus and the geometers.
Tradition says the entrance to Plato's Academy carried the words "Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here." Seneca reports that the gate of Epicurus's Garden carried a very different message: "Stranger, here you will do well to tarry; here our highest good is pleasure."
The article examines why Epicurus rejected points without width, lines without breadth, and infinite divisibility, and what he put in their place: the doctrine of minimal parts. Epicurus was not against mathematics as a useful tool. He was against confusing a useful model with the real world. That warning is needed even more today than it was in the ancient world.
The article can be read at the link below or by opening the "Physics Analysis" menu in the left navigation sidebar.
Let All Who Would Free Themselves From The False Claims Of The Geometers Enter Here