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... Exploration ; and that characterization covers many of the events that followed . But the most significant part of this new exploration took place in the mind ; and what is more the cultural New World that was opened up still was ...
... Exploration ; and that characterization covers many of the events that followed . But the most significant part of this new exploration took place in the mind ; and what is more the cultural New World that was opened up still was ...
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... exploration that beckoned modern man : the exploration of the earth , hitherto never encompassed as a whole , and the exploration of the skies , and of all the physical phenomena , cosmic and earthbound , that could be interpreted and ...
... exploration that beckoned modern man : the exploration of the earth , hitherto never encompassed as a whole , and the exploration of the skies , and of all the physical phenomena , cosmic and earthbound , that could be interpreted and ...
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... exploration has reached a natural terminus : the last frontier is closed . The landing of the first two astronauts on the moon was not the beginning of a new age of cosmic exploration but the end . The scientific technological ...
... exploration has reached a natural terminus : the last frontier is closed . The landing of the first two astronauts on the moon was not the beginning of a new age of cosmic exploration but the end . The scientific technological ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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