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... royal mandate . Thus royal patronage had not merely promoted star - gazing but laid the ground- work for the more austere and pragmatically useful determinism of the physical sciences . Once firmly embedded in the mind , this unprovable ...
... royal mandate . Thus royal patronage had not merely promoted star - gazing but laid the ground- work for the more austere and pragmatically useful determinism of the physical sciences . Once firmly embedded in the mind , this unprovable ...
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... royal charter from Charles II . The earlier Accademia dei Lynxei , founded in Florence in 1603 , may have given Bacon his germinal idea , since he was invited to become a member . But in 1630 that academy was shut down ; so the members ...
... royal charter from Charles II . The earlier Accademia dei Lynxei , founded in Florence in 1603 , may have given Bacon his germinal idea , since he was invited to become a member . But in 1630 that academy was shut down ; so the members ...
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... royal military use from the Second Millennium on . But apart from horse racing , popular interest in speed as a mode of recreation is a modern development , manifested in the seventeenth century in the sail wagon , shown here ( left ) ...
... royal military use from the Second Millennium on . But apart from horse racing , popular interest in speed as a mode of recreation is a modern development , manifested in the seventeenth century in the sail wagon , shown here ( left ) ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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