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Page 26
... stone , wood , and painted parchment : on church porches and pews , in calendars and Books of Hours , one finds scene after scene from daily life , not treated as an evidence of some more ultimate spiritual revelation , but enjoyed ...
... stone , wood , and painted parchment : on church porches and pews , in calendars and Books of Hours , one finds scene after scene from daily life , not treated as an evidence of some more ultimate spiritual revelation , but enjoyed ...
Page 87
... stones at random on the site : at the end of a century one would still have only a pile of stones . To account for the orderly behavior of living beings Descartes introduced the concept of the machine which , more than any conceivable ...
... stones at random on the site : at the end of a century one would still have only a pile of stones . To account for the orderly behavior of living beings Descartes introduced the concept of the machine which , more than any conceivable ...
Page 198
... stone . But though these improvements were striking enough to incite imitation , they did not breed any sense of their inevitability , nor did they presage a long series of improvements in other fields . Strangely , those who sought ...
... stone . But though these improvements were striking enough to incite imitation , they did not breed any sense of their inevitability , nor did they presage a long series of improvements in other fields . Strangely , those who sought ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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