Bill Ferguson. The debate over the nature of curvature (physical and geometrical) in the 17th century was an important breakthrough in mankinds progress. Using a hanging chain, Bill Ferguson discusses the history of science from the standpoint of an ancient oligarchy intent on preventing humanity in general from thinking about causality (i.e. keep them stupid in order to control them) and the revolutionary students of Plato and Cusa that discovered the universal reality behind the hanging chain, and thereby increased our power over the universe. On the side of the reductionists, evil figures like Norbert Weiner formulated frauds such as information theory that spurred Lyndon LaRouche to publicly become the most vocal defender of the tradition of Leibnitz at a time when all such tendencies in science were under attack by the followers of Bertrand Russell. I enjoyed this class in particular because of the hysterical conniption fit mathematicians throw about Lyndon LaRouche, claiming that he's not an economist or a scientist because he rejects math.