Let It Shine: Solar Design in Ancient Greece

Reader Contribution by John Perlin
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The following post summarizes the author’s Chapter 2 of Let It Shine: The 6,000-Year Story of Solar Energy.

Never in the history of the world has there been such a high-ranking member of society to advocate passive solar architecture than Socrates. He felt so strongly for building with the sun in mind that he even set up a class to teach his acolytes how the finer points of putting up a passive solar house.

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