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... Galileo brought Copernicus down to earth; yet in doing so, he exiled man himself from this new realm of clarified ... Galileo's reaction was inevitable and indeed salutary. Yet the form it took was not merely a justifiable attack on the ...
... Galileo brought Copernicus down to earth; yet in doing so, he exiled man himself from this new realm of clarified ... Galileo's reaction was inevitable and indeed salutary. Yet the form it took was not merely a justifiable attack on the ...
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... Galileo's work which radically modified man's sense of his own unique place in the cosmos and contributed to the exploitation of every manner of technical facility. Galileo took up and developed an observation that his younger colleague ...
... Galileo's work which radically modified man's sense of his own unique place in the cosmos and contributed to the exploitation of every manner of technical facility. Galileo took up and developed an observation that his younger colleague ...
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... GALILEO. Though Galileo's interpretation of planetary movements led to a charge of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church, the heresy that he was accused of was one he did not utter. As he plaintively put it at the end of the 'Dialogues on ...
... GALILEO. Though Galileo's interpretation of planetary movements led to a charge of heresy by the Roman Catholic Church, the heresy that he was accused of was one he did not utter. As he plaintively put it at the end of the 'Dialogues on ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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