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... observation of the flight of land - based birds . Navigational skill required exact science ; it was on the sea that the main procedures of the scientific method itself were first worked out . It was the mariner's need for astronomical ...
... observation of the flight of land - based birds . Navigational skill required exact science ; it was on the sea that the main procedures of the scientific method itself were first worked out . It was the mariner's need for astronomical ...
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... observation of the planets in astrology . Now astrology had long before been condemned by Saint Augustine and other Christian theologians as a pagan superstition , incompatible with belief in God's exclusive providence and man's free ...
... observation of the planets in astrology . Now astrology had long before been condemned by Saint Augustine and other Christian theologians as a pagan superstition , incompatible with belief in God's exclusive providence and man's free ...
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... observation , though there are still areas , like taxonomy in biology , where this kind of systematic preparatory effort has yielded certain theoretic rewards . By the same token Bacon seriously underesti- mated , one might almost say ...
... observation , though there are still areas , like taxonomy in biology , where this kind of systematic preparatory effort has yielded certain theoretic rewards . By the same token Bacon seriously underesti- mated , one might almost say ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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