What's the matter?

 I had once thought that Isaiah was the inspiration for all kinds of big developments in the century that followed him,  and today I looked again because from a mystical standpoint we could argue those developments came after Babylon took the arc of the covenant, but from a practical standpoint,  many of those who popped up were important people in greater positions to begin with, Confuscious for one. Also, Buddha was said to have come from a prominent background. 

I still like the idea that his startling revelations were a bit shaking to the ground, and far reaching. He was, for the better understanding,  an epicenter. 

I'm interested today in optics. I saw Roger Bacon because yesterday was H.G. Wells birthday and in my kookery, I had a little discourse with him cross time, anyway, in my imagination, he asks me about what I learned about when reading him, and I say "Roger Bacon, noone's heard of him". Then I looked him up on Wikipedia. And there you have it, optics! And in the 13th century! That's very early! Go Bacon the greater. ( I think lol)

I was marveling at Brunelleschi and he was doing his thing a bit after. His optics were years later. These things appeal to me because the line is fascinating. For instance,  we often hear that the library at Alexandria was burnt but only in part. So things drifted around a bit, and so greater things were happening in between reading. New Roman writers and wars and things. Optics then, meandered ;)

Anyway, I find optics so fascinating because discovering the stars better was the beginning, but discovering matter better, well, we wouldn't want to say it is an end. Yuck. 

Matter.